Reading: Isaiah 6:1-8Speaker: Roger Habgood from The Besom Network This Week’s Thoughts A lone Sherman tank sits atop a crucial crossroads. Its American crew are making one last stand. They lay in wait for a nearby Nazi battalion to march their way. The five-man tank crew rest inside their iron home. They are eager, alert, ...

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Reading: Matthew 5-7 This Week’s Thoughts The Sermon on the Mount. We all know it, we all love it. An oft quoted, much referenced, highly revered part of Jesus’ ministry. And what a wonderfully easy and unchallenging set of passages to write a reflection on. Not. Following Edwin’s confession in last week’s reflection, I’m not ...

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Reading: Luke 15 This Week’s Thoughts I’ve got another confession to make. I say another because my writing has evolved into quite the fatherly confessional. Our Elliott has grown in wisdom in stature from his years of church attendance and home Bible reading. Little Molly, meanwhile, is just beginning her journey. She can tell me ...

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Reading: John 4:1-45 This Week’s Thoughts I know that I speak for many when I say that it is a great comfort that the LORD chose the disciples He did. Such a fallible lot followed the Son of God, making mistakes so familiar, it gives hope that maybe, just maybe, He might be willing to ...

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Reading: 1 Samuel 17 This Week’s Thoughts Some Bible stories grow so familiar that we let their teeth grow dull. We must avoid this at all costs. So if you have a moment, just Google “David’s slingshot” or “modern-day David” and you’ll see my point. Click a video of an ancient Israelite sling in action ...

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Readings: Daniel 1, 3 and 6 This Week’s Thoughts I learnt a new word recently. It was for a concept I was already familiar with, but wasn’t aware there was a term for. For those like me who hadn’t heard of ‘syncretism’ before, the basic meaning is when you attempt to reconcile different or opposing ...

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Reading: Jonah 1-4 The LEGO Jonah Video This Week’s Thoughts I can’t recall ever watching Spartacus beginning to end. In fact, I’m sure I never have. And yet I can’t count how many times I turned on the telly as a kid, flipped between our four terrestrial channels (five if you count the fuzzy one), ...

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Reading: Hebrews 13Speaker: Tommy Pratt This Week’s Thoughts If the book of Hebrews could be summarised into a short, catchy slogan, it might be this: Jesus is better. The author has explained by this point that this Jesus — fully God and fully man, apostle and high priest — is greater than the angels, greater ...

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Reading: Hebrews 12Speaker: Sam Burton (Awaken) This Week’s Thoughts Hebrews 11 teaches that faith is ‘the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things that are not seen.’ Faith believes what God has revealed and trusts what God has promised. Faith listens to God, walks with God, fears God, obeys God, and gains from God. And ...

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Reading: Hebrews 11:1-16Speaker: Tim Mountain This Week’s Thoughts Some words are like cream cakes. If you have them too frequently, you forget what was so special about them the first time. And in extreme cases when they are repeated ad nauseam, you can become sick of them altogether. For example: love, joy, grace, mercy, salvation. ...

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