James McMaster
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...
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James McMaster
- Nov 30, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Nov 25, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Nov 19, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Nov 16, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Nov 12, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Nov 9, 2018
- 2 min
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....
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James McMaster
- Nov 4, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Nov 2, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Oct 28, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Oct 22, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Oct 19, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Oct 14, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Oct 12, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Oct 8, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Oct 5, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Oct 1, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Sep 28, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Sep 24, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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James McMaster
- Sep 21, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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