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Church Cleaning Rota – 2009

Click on the link below to download the Church Cleaning Rota for 2009. This file is in PDF format and you will require Adobe Reader or similar to view the document. This can be downloaded, for free, from the Adobe Website. Church Cleaning Rota – 2009

ESV Study Bible

In October 2008 Crossway released the long awaited ESV Study Bible. If you’ve managed to get hold of it in the UK since then, congratulations – you’re one of the chosen few that managed to beat demand and receive one before the scheduled March 09 reprint. I too managed to get hold of a copy,…
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Colossians V – Making the Word of God fully known (Colossians 1:24-25 & 2:5)

In the fifth of a new 19 part series, Ronnie Evans looks at how by following Paul’s example, as Christians, we should expect to suffer in order that the gospel may be proclaimed and true joy may be received.

Songs of Ascent I – The Lord My Deliverer (Psalm 120)

The Songs of Ascent are a collection of Psalms (running from Psalm 120 through to Psalm 135) which pilgrims sang as they travelled towards Jerusalem and up to the temple, and the psalmist begins his journey (and this series of songs) with, ‘In my distress I called to the Lord’. In this first of a…
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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist – John Piper

I begin by stating that Desiring God is an important book and is quite rightly regarded as a modern classic. Dr John Piper’s thesis through the pages of Desiring God and, indeed, his 29 years as Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church has been to test and apply his hypothesis, adapted from…
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The Reason for God: Belief in an age of Scepticism – Tim Keller

Timothy Keller’s book The Reason for God: Belief in an age of Scepticism takes an in-depth look at the reasons for and against the existence of God. The book is split into two sections. The first half of the book looks at a number of typical reasons why people doubt the existence of God today,…
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Colossians IV – The triumph of Christ (Colossians 1:21-23)

In the fourth of a new 19 part series, Phill Marsh looks at Christ’s work of reconciliation and that through His death we are presented as holy and blameless before God.

Running the Race III -For the Prize (1 Corinthians 9:24-27)

Ronnie Evans examines just what it is that Christians are running for in this conclusion to the three part Running the Race series.

Colossians III – The supremacy of Christ (Colossians 1:15-20)

In the third of a new 19 part series, Phill Marsh looks at the supremacy of Christ.

Running the Race II -With Fear and Trembling (Phillippians 2:11-13)

Ronnie Evans takes this second in a three part series, looking at the race we run as Christians.