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Heart in the write place
Published: 23rd Jan 2012
THE PLEASURE is immense. We've finished the last page. It's been a steep climb but the summit has been reached. Joseph (not his real name) has read his first book - ever. Who was more elated? Him or me?
Joseph is about 35 and comes from central Africa. He is one of several people who can hardly read or write at all - either in English or in their native language if they come...
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With a word
Published: 20th May 2011
OUR FIRST glimpse of God in the bible captures His awesome title as universal Creator of everything. It's His most basic, yet most thrilling attribute: the author of life has such authority that His words obey and create whatever He commands. He literally speaks things into being!
Throughout history springs the testimony of God as author, architect, builder, Father, lover and...
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Self-Help or Self-Helpless
Published: 18th May 2011
AFTER all, what are you? What is your self, exactly? You're an organism with a very short shelf life on a planet in a vast universe.
Don't mean to depress you, but in 100 years or so, it's more than likely that no one will remember you. Those relationships with friends, family that you treasure so much and which define you? They'll cease to be, in the blink of a galactic...
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Body builders
Published: 22nd May 2010
You are Christ's body — that's who you are! You must never forget this. Only as you accept your part of that body does your "part" mean anything. (1 Corinthians 12:27, The Message)
CHRIST'S Body. This group of not-very-perfect people in big, bad Corinth expressed Christ all on their own - fully.
But maybe you want to correct...
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Sleepless nights, nappies and nightmares
Published: 15th Jan 2010
God created human beings; he created them godlike, reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! (Genesis 1:27-28, The Message)
HAVING children makes us human.
Is this insensitive, even shocking? What about single people or childless couples? Read on - there's more to this...
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