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To whom it may concern: Evidences of grace (Acts 11:19-30)

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To whom it may concern. Wednesday, 23 October 2013. Evidences of grace (Acts 11:19-30). I was talking to a parent recently who told me that his daughter was showing evidence of grace. It seemed to him that her faith seemed really to be making a difference in her life. There seemed to be signs that her Christianity is real. 1 Grace makes evangelists (19-21). 2 Barnabas - an example of grace (22-26). The leaders in Jerusalem commissioned Barnabas to go and investigate what was going on in Antioch. Barn...

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To whom it may concern: Paisley: Sorry seems to be the hardest word

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To whom it may concern. Friday, 12 September 2014. Paisley: Sorry seems to be the hardest word. So Paisley died today. A truly enigmatic man. My attitude towards him has changed over time. To whom it may concern. Friday, September 12, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The problem of the super-spiritual Christian. I am trying not to write this post in anger, because super-spiritual people are hard to deal with.  I also realise that we need to be caref. Am I a troll? There is a difference between f...

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To whom it may concern: Dear Whitney (1 John 2:1-14)

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To whom it may concern. Thursday, 30 April 2015. Dear Whitney (1 John 2:1-14). I did a little internet search on the question ‘how can I be sure I am going to heaven? When I saw that the Billy Graham Association had an answer to this question I clicked on their site. They, rightly, pointed out that we are to base our assurance not on what we have done, but on what Christ has done for us. That is why it is not arrogant to be sure that we are right with God. But that does not mean that sin does not matter.

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To whom it may concern: The real pain of the young gay person

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To whom it may concern. Friday, 15 May 2015. The real pain of the young gay person. The most moving article that I have read in the run up to the referendum is that by political correspondent, Ursula Halligan. She recalls her experiences of same-sex attraction, in nineteen seventies Ireland. At the age of seventeen she wrote in her diary, ‘there seems to be no one I can talk to, not even God.’. There were times that her struggle filled her with thoughts of death. As Ed Shaw (who is a same-sex attracted C...

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To whom it may concern: Am I a troll?

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To whom it may concern. Tuesday, 21 April 2015. Am I a troll? There are couple of reasons why this is a difficult topic to address. The first is that the church has not always got it right on the issue of homosexuality. While some have not been faithful to the Biblical teaching on marriage and have accommodated to the worlds view on sex, others have spoken about this topic in a way that has failed to convey grace and love. A Facebook friend of mine referred to those who oppose same-sex marriage as trolls.

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To whom it may concern: Words that end in SHUN

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To whom it may concern. Thursday, 9 May 2013. Words that end in SHUN. Colin Buchanon is no ordinary song-writer. He is a Christian song writer for kids, and he not afraid to hit them with the truth of the gospel. On an album entitled 'Super-Saviour' he writes a song called, 'Big Bible words that end in SHUN'. It opens,. Big words that end in SHUN. Show what The Lord had DONE. Through Jesus, his own SON. Big words that end in SHUN. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement .' (Romans 3:25)....We ha...

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To whom it may concern: O.C.D. and me

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To whom it may concern. Sunday, 22 March 2015. When I was in my late teens and early twenties I started struggling a little bit with anxiety. That anxiety became especially severe one summer, and persisted to various degrees over the following years. At times that anxiety turned into bouts of depression. Stephen heard what I was saying and immediately diagnosed the problem. He described my thoughts as being ridiculous, resistant, repetitive and repulsive to me. He said that I was suffering from O...Ed We...

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To whom it may concern: The problem of the super-spiritual Christian

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To whom it may concern. Wednesday, 20 March 2013. The problem of the super-spiritual Christian. I am trying not to write this post in anger, because super-spiritual people are hard to deal with. I also realise that we need to be careful when writing about any sin, in case we encourage judgementalism. The issue I am grappling with is how to deal with super-spiritual people. What do I mean by a super-spiritual people? 4 Super-spirituals often find it hard to settle in churches, and so can find themselves d...

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To whom it may concern: ‘The why, who and how of death’ (Luke 13:1-5)

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To whom it may concern. Tuesday, 30 June 2015. 8216;The why, who and how of death’ (Luke 13:1-5). This summer we have had plenty of reminders of the fragility of life. We have seen young Irish students die in a balcony collapse in California, there have been the shootings in North Carolina and Tunisia, and much closer to home we have had the death of our beloved sister Flora. Many people ask the question ‘why? We are not told why tragedy strikes some and not others. A tragic accident—like the colla...