This is me at 13 years of age. Wet, shivering and miserable lined up against the redbrick wall with some twenty-two other 13 year olds. This is the weekly games lesson and this is me waiting to be picked. Two team captains, the tallest and the meanest, head the line pointing sullenly, first to the…
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Despite the recent run of glorious rain (I, unlike most, am loving this unseasonal weather), I have already been to a record number of barbeques this year. If there were ever any question of how best to prepare food, barbeque is without doubt the answer. Cooking food in the open air with the aid of…
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Something about Jesus drew crowds. We see this time and time again throughout the Gospels. One time Jesus clambers onto a boat in order to avoid being crushed by the great crowd pressing in on him (Mark 3:9-10). On another occasion he escapes the crowd by boat only to find himself amidst a great storm…
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These are the notes of a sermon preached by Andy Evans on the morning of the 26 July 2009 at Firwood Church. Click here to stream or download the sermon audio. Ephesians 1:3-14 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing…
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In the book of Ecclesiastes, King Solomon applies his heart ‘to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven’. As he does so, he discovers fallen man amidst a sin-ruined creation. In the eighth part of this series, Ronnie Evans considers the call to live in deep fellowship with one…
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Paul begins his great hymn of praise with the truth that God chooses us. In the third part of this series working through the letter to the Ephesians, Andy Evans unpacks this weighty truth and explains why Christians should exult in a God who acts first, acts decisively and acts in love. Click here to…
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You know how it goes. ‘The Academy Award for Best Actress goes to…’ Then the orchestra strikes up, the dreamy montage is projected on the fifty foot high screen. The Best Actress stands up, her just-on-the-right-side-of-vulgar sequinned dress glistening in the twinkling spotlight, handkerchief clutched in hand; yes, she is already choking back the tears.…
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I’ve been talking about the Moon a lot lately. Partly due to the fact that I’m a bit of a geek and it’s 40 years since Man landed on the moon and that kind of thing excites me, and partly because an inordinate amount of my (former) friends seem to think that it didn’t happen.…
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These are the notes of a sermon preached by Andy Evans on the morning of the 19 July 2009 at Firwood Church. Click here to stream or download the sermon audio. Ephesians 1:3-14 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing…
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The 80’s was a bad decade for many things; music, fashion, the economy – not many things came out of it untarnished. Eighties films however, shine out like stars in a night sky. The decade of my birth is responsible for some of the greatest films of all time. I recall with sweet affection the…
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