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ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ALL OVER

  Just in case you have lost count, today, Friday 5th of January is the twelfth and last day of Christmas. By now if the traditional Christmas Carol is to be believed your home should be filled with drummers, pipers, ladies, lords and maids, swans, geese, gold rings, birds, hens, doves and the bones of …

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OUR CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO YOU

  Our thanks, best wishes for Christmas and a prayer of blessing go to all our readers who encourage us, to everyone who prays with us, and to all our friends across the developing world. You can see our year in photos here https://ow.ly/j7r050Qk8q3 source

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SOMEBODY BECOMES A NOBODY

  It is said about one of the most famous names in history that he spent forty years thinking he was somebody. He spent the next forty years learning he was nobody. In the following forty years he discovered what God can do with a nobody. We are still talking about him. That man was …

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BEEN SEEING SOME WORRYING MESSAGES? SO HAVE WE.

  Some of you are not having a good week, and actually neither are we. If it isn’t Covid, it’s a pain that will not go away or an infection that resists all treatment. For another it’s broken bones, or a child being rushed into hospital, and for one or two of you it’s a …

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WHY THE IMPOSSIBLE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THE IMPASSABLE

Pilar was on the operating table, anaesthetised. I was at home pacing the room when the phone rang.  “Come for your wife and come now.” Several weeks earlier Pilar had begun to lose her voice and then lost it altogether. The doctor suspected a polyp, a cyst or something worse on her vocal cords and …

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HOW TO FIND LIFE OUTSIDE THE SPOTLIGHT

If anyone were to take a look at my incoming messages they might conclude that my youth was rather misspent travelling here and there and leaving my mark in any number of nations.  You see a lot of people call me Daddy, even Father, some write to Papa and one or two others who are …

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THE PARTY THAT NO-ONE CAME TO. UNTIL . . . .

The room was booked, the food and drink was ordered, the musicians were on the way and the gifts were wrapped. It was going to be an evening to remember. Until one by one, nearly all the invited guests messaged to make their excuses not to come and left us to eat their turkey three …

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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING

  It is a week of appalling, mind-numbing and heart-stopping news which makes us shake our heads in disbelief. It is a week in a year when the Bible and the media unusually concur to report the same news, one prophetically looking forward and the other historically looking back on yesterday and the day before. …

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WALK TOO FAR AND TOO FAST AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU

Last week we went walking on the coast, alongside the green pastures and quiet waters where according to Psalm 23, Jesus restores your soul. We walked under blue skies, under grey skies and one day under skies that suddenly turned so black that even the seagulls went quiet and sure enough, five minutes later we …

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