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August | 2015 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. August 28, 2015. July 14, 2015. How God Changed My Mind. I realise that this is a picture of how I have approached giving and stewardship in my leadership within the church. Fearful of bowling to the left I have over compensated and ended up bowling to the right. Let me explain. This is an extreme case, but not untypical of what I considered to be an unhealthy and unbiblical pressure to give exerted by church leaders. However, in reac...
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February | 2015 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. February 23, 2015. February 12, 2015. Emails In The Bible. What does a human email look like in the bible? Try the book of Esther :-. Esther 4 v 6-17. The book of Esther is a true Hollywood epic. It tells the story of the deliverance of the Jewish people from extermination. No email, no facebook, no fax, no phone, no mobile, just a walking, talking email called Hathak. Do you look with envy at those on a stage? You are not alone.
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May | 2014 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. May 26, 2014. May 20, 2014. Our context of ministering into the UK: Part 2. In my previous blog I talked about how our context in the UK is similar to that into which Peter wrote, how as Christians we feel like foreigners and exiles in our own country. This blog develops those thoughts. We are foreigners and exiles because we have been born into a new homeland. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In all this you ...
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August | 2014 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. August 25, 2014. August 7, 2014. I Give You My 5 Loaves. I have been journaling since I was 15; a long time ago now! But this is the first time I have gone public on a blog (so I’m a bit nervous! I hope it blesses you too. Catherine Phinn, a member of Hope Church. I give you my five loaves and two fish,. For they are yours already. I give you what good I do have. As well as what I lack;. For You are a miracle worker,. I give You the d...
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November | 2014 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. November 24, 2014. November 24, 2014. More Reflections On The Role Of Family Within The Kingdom Of God: Part 4. In my previous blog I talked about the fact that for many friendships have taken the place of family. However these friendships are not meeting everyone’s expectations. Before going on it is worth considering the nature of friendship. There are 3 different types of friendship. True Friends for a Season. Many of our closest f...
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Prayer – The Hardest Prayer To Pray? | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. June 12, 2015. May 19, 2015. Prayer The Hardest Prayer To Pray? There are many different prayers that we pray over the years, there are many prayers recorded in the Bible. Have you ever considered what the hardest prayer to pray is? My suggestion would be the prayer that Jesus prays on the cross as recorded in Luke 23v34 Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. Then very occasionally something horrendous happens.
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May | 2015 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. May 29, 2015. May 13, 2015. The Lord’s Prayer. Prayer – Part 5. It would be difficult in a series of blogs on prayer to ignore the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples. Luke 11v1-4, Matthew 6v9-13. However it is also difficult to say something brief about this prayer. I will try to be succinct! Other things worthy of note are. Our focus on prayer should be on God rather than ourselves and our needs, especially at the start of our pr...
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June | 2015 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. June 26, 2015. June 16, 2015. Helping people discover the truth about Jesus – Part 1. I don’t come from a church going family and in growing up had little to do with the church and very little understanding regarding what Christians believed (although I thought I knew! This series of blogs is my way of communicating lessons that I have learnt over the last 20 years of leading churches and seeking to do this. Written By Tony Thompson.
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March | 2015 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. March 30, 2015. March 4, 2015. How do we get the compassion of Christ? We have seen from Linda how important compassion is, yet it is not easy to get. You can’t just think yourself into being compassionate. How do we get Christ’s compassion? Scriptures suggests that it is our own struggles that work in us the compassion Linda talked about. Following Paul’s conversion Ananias was told by the Lord to go Paul. Acts 9v15, 16. Praise be to...
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September | 2014 | Hope Church Luton – Blog
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Hope Church Luton – Blog. Building Gods Kingdom, Growing God's People. September 29, 2014. September 25, 2014. Disappointment some introductory reflections. Over the last year or so I have been increasingly aware of how important it is to handle disappointment well, especially but not exclusively disappointment with people. I’ve realised that my natural tendency is to withdraw from people who disappoint me, which is not very healthy! These reflections have led me to the following conclusions. Things didn...
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