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Want to see a miracle? Meet Saul!
We seem to live in an age which lusts after the miraculous and obsesses about the supernatural. In this way we can very easily ‘miss the...
James McMaster
Dec 2, 20182 min read
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Are you easily offended?
‘No, of course not’ we reply! At least not until someone offends us....In truth we can all be pretty easy to rub the wrong way with...
James McMaster
Nov 30, 20182 min read
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Good News for Eunuchs!
Calling all eunuchs (and the rest of you!), Acts chapter 8 tells the amazing story of how Christianity first arrived in Africa. A...
James McMaster
Nov 25, 20182 min read
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Simon and Simony and Samaria
Philip goes to Samaria and preaches the Jesus story with the happy result that virtually the whole city believes. The picture that we are...
James McMaster
Nov 19, 20182 min read
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Children of Slavery or Children of Promise?
In Galatians 4 the Apostle Paul makes reference to two women who produced children for Abraham. One was his legitimate wife, Sarah, the...
James McMaster
Nov 16, 20182 min read
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F ool of bitterness or Full of peace?
Today I want us to take another look at Stephen, the church’s first martyr. Last time we looked at how Stephen could have such assurance...
James McMaster
Nov 12, 20182 min read
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I am shouting ‘stop’!
It is an irony of our age that the people who tell the truth are the ones who tend to get hammered into the ground. Think Maurice McCabe....
James McMaster
Nov 9, 20182 min read
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St Stephen’s Bridge
It may be a little early to think of St Stephen’s Day but we have been recently looking at this Martyr on Sundays. His speech in the book...
James McMaster
Nov 4, 20183 min read
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Are you a slave of a Son?
In the ancient world of Rome sons were usually schooled and trained by a household slave. For the son this probably wasn’t an exciting...
James McMaster
Nov 2, 20182 min read
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Have you been to the Temple recently?
For the Jews the Temple in Jerusalem was a massive deal being at the very heart of their religion. Indeed, for the Old Testament...
James McMaster
Oct 28, 20182 min read
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Church; a spectacular waste of time?
Which is the bigger waste of time? A) Learning Esperanto B) Waiting for the British government to get organised for Brexit C) Scuba...
James McMaster
Oct 22, 20183 min read
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Blessing or Cursing?
On Thursday evenings we have been reading through the book of Galatians which has been quite a roller coaster ride. The background is...
James McMaster
Oct 19, 20183 min read
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A call to the hurt, the disillusioned and the cynical
One of the reasons that I love reading the Bible is because it is such a brutally honest book. Despite what people think (usually those...
James McMaster
Oct 14, 20183 min read
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Awesome Abraham or an Awesome God?
On the authority of God’s Word we can categorically say that Father Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, went to Heaven. No...
James McMaster
Oct 12, 20182 min read
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It’s not over until Jesus says it’s over; a funeral with a difference!
Someone once stated that the only certainties of life are death and taxes. And yet death is a subject that we really don’t feel...
James McMaster
Oct 8, 20182 min read
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Let the little children come on to me!
On Thursday evening, instead of our usual Bible study, we heard a great presentation by a young visiting speaker. Sarah shared with us...
James McMaster
Oct 5, 20182 min read
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The One Message
If you had one opportunity to speak to a dying man what would you say? Talk about the weather? Inquire how healthy the person’s bank...
James McMaster
Oct 1, 20183 min read
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Are you so foolish?!
With such a title this is not exactly the ideal way of starting a blog post....If that is how you feel then you will readily appreciate...
James McMaster
Sep 28, 20183 min read
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Life (and death) in the Early Church
Acts 4.32-5.16 gives us a great picture of a great church in action! Many of us today tend to slip into the awful tendency of thinking of...
James McMaster
Sep 24, 20183 min read
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Dead Men Walking!
Question- when are you beyond the long arm of the law? Answer- when it has already flexed it’s muscles and put you to death. This, oddly...
James McMaster
Sep 21, 20183 min read
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