Scotland and England

Scotland and England

Over a long weekend in November a friend and I visited the Helping Hand Hostel in Auchinlech, Scotland, run by Iain and Mary Robertson. This is a home for drug addicts and alcoholics accommodating around eight people at any given time. Iain and Mary live on the ground floor of these premises, which used to be a pub! The ministry also operates a drop-in café and a charity shop...

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My Recent Visit To Australia

My Recent Visit To Australia

Thank you to those of you who were praying for me during my recent trip to Coffs Harbour Bible Church, NSW, Australia. It was a wonderful experience that I will cherish for a long time. The meetings were a blessing, with a definite sense of the Presence of God in our midst and therefore the knowledge that the Lord was working in many hearts...

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Ministry Update

Ministry Update - October '10

Our prayer, as always, is to catch souls for the Lord Jesus Christ. For this task we must always be listening for the Master's instruction and obeying His every command. We look forward to the days when the nets will be bursting with fish, but in the meantime we rejoice at the ones and twos coming to Jesus...

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Are You Trying?

Are You Trying?

Paul's message is very clear: the message of the Gospel that brings salvation is Christ - it's a gift, a free gift by grace. We receive it from God by the hand of faith, and there's nothing else involved. No works or no merits of our own! But Paul is at pains to get across that sanctification is exactly the same: it is by grace through faith, not of works of the law...

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The Value Of One Soul

The Value Of One Soul

Souls are passing into eternity in their thousands, so understandably we long for thousands to be saved. We cry, "Oh for the wind of the Spirit to breathe over us again that thousands in Ireland, and further afield might be swept into the Kingdom!" It is only natural to yearn for many to be saved when many are lost, but, consider: the value of just One Soul.

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Necessary Knowledge

Necessary Knowledge

It is the truth of the Resurrection of our Lord that causes us to know that our labour for Him is not in vain. If our Lord had not risen from the dead, His labour of the Cross was in vain. If He had not risen again, we will not rise again; so our faith and our labour is in vain...

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The UK Privatisation of Christianity

The UK Privatisation of Christianity

In the 1950s Sir Winston Churchill did it to British Steel. In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Regan popularised it worldwide. Thatcher's successor John Major did it to British Rail and our current Government wants to do it to Royal Mail - what is it? Privatization: the process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector (Government) to the private sector (business)...

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Haiti

Haiti

On the evening of 12 January 2010, a series of earthquakes with magnitude 6.5 to 7.3 struck Haiti in a highly populated area, 10 miles from Port-au-Prince. While these recent events in Haiti are rapidly fading from our news headlines, many are still grappling with the reasons for such a catastrophe...

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Into The Unknown?

Into The Unknown?

Generally, when it comes to the future, we obsess about what we don't know, rather than what we do. The Christian has the Divinely gifted privilege of knowing a lot more about the future than we often appreciate. I believe in prophecy; but that's not what I am speaking of here. I am referring to God's Revealed Will for us personally...

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