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James 5:13-20. Prayers for healing
James concludes his letter with encouragements to prayer. Some turn inhis words into accusations that if we are not healed by prayer it is because we have unconfessed wrong in…
2 Corinthians 11. The answer to Paul’s prayer
Paul’s prayer for his own healing in 2 Corinthians 11 was given an unexpected, even an unwanted answer but it is a answer that takes us into the heart of…
Philippians 4.1-9. Anxiety
Research shows that the human mind is more attuned to take notice of bad news than good news and our culture uses this tuning to motivate us, discipline us and…
John 17. The answer to Jesus’ prayer
In this short series on prayer we consider how some Biblical personalities experienced answered prayer. In this talk we look at Jesus’ prayer for the future of the church in…
Anglican Miracles
This article was written in response to questions about the Anglican view of miracles. The questions came from people who wanted to explore the claims of Christianity and the Anglican…
1 John 5.1-12. Truth, love & obedience – overcome
We feel enormously uncomfortable distinguishing between those who are Christian and those who are not within the church. John doesn’t. In fact, he has left the church tests by which…
1 John 4.13-21. Love, truth & fear (Trinity)
Perfect love drives out fear. In this part of his letter John gives the struggling Christian church assurance about the signs they belong to Jesus namely: the Spirit of God…
1 John 4.7-12. Love is not love (Pentecost)
Love is our most powerful and most abused four letter word. The poet W. H Auden in his famous poem about love wrote: ‘Law like love I say. Like law…
1 John 3.18-24. Love, not hate
Michael Flynn In a world of moral ambiguity it is hard to decide who are the good, the bad or the good-bad or even the bad-good guys. It all leaves…