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Last week I was preaching on 2 Kings 3. It's an easy passage to get a lot of moral lessons from, but what does it have to tell us about...

(Looking at 2 Kings 2:23-25. Again - much owed to Stuart Olyott and Dale Ralph Davis) God still punishes unrepentant sinners Here is the mi...

Behold the Goodness of God - 2 Kings 2:19-22 (This is part one of a sermon entitled "The Goodness and Severity of God". It owes a ...

Over at Shall we sing a song for you , Stevie Steele is surveying whether he should get a 'words of Christ in red' bible. I suppose ...

In 1983 when Bob Paisley the manager of Liverpool FC retired, Liverpool were at the peak of their greatness. They had won the European Cup, ...

We're starting to look at Elisha over the next number of weeks in church. Here's the outline of where we went in the introduction. C...

I came across this quite challenging bit from JI Packer recently: "So let us read the Bible - if we can. But can we? Many of us have ...

Or, Do you need to do your daily Bible reading when you are at a Christian camp or conference? Here is something that I was asked recently -...

Sex - God created it, the world abuses it, and most Christians are embarrassed by it. The way the world treats sex is like using a Stradivar...

Here's a post that I might even print out and distribute to some people I know!

(My local newspaper column. This post was inspired by this one by Doug Groothuis .) Something has happened to the news. I wonder if you...

I was preaching at a friend's wedding a few weeks ago. As part of the sermon I was encouraging them to read over and put into practice a...

The Big Picture for Small Churches John Benton Evangelical Press I was talking to someone recently and they were amazed to find out that I w...

(Sorry fo the absence - I was away leading a church camp for 13-15 year olds) Most Christians, on this side of the pond at least, don't ...

The Blessings on the Redeemed v11-22 This book of Ruth with its happy ending shows us what happens to those whom God redeems. I read a b...

The Redeemer Pays a Great Price And watching and waiting for the man and when he appears Boaz says, “Come over here my friend and sit dow...

The Book of Ruth has everything to make a good story - death, romance and a happy ending. But it is much more than a good story. There is ...

Christ redeems us voluntarily v12 As I thought through this passage there was one thing I couldn't get my head around. All along I'...

Coming to our redeemer We have been seeing that the book of Ruth is in some ways a picture book. In Ruth herself we have seen a picture of ...