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Weird supernatural event or trick of the mind? Demonic activity or innocent fun? Does it really matter either way? Whatever side you sit of the fence: belief in the demonic or explained away happenings of the quija board. As a Christian there is a very real danger and risk. Over the last number of weeks yet another film is being released where the […]
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A new team member @ Lumina – Chris Webb I am naturally a vacillator who finds it incredibly difficult to make decisions. Not blessed with a decisive temperament, I waver and am sometimes paralysed by doubt as to the correct course of action. Yet Christians, of whom I am one, claim to be guided by God in the decisions they make and the course […]
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As we approach Good Friday it always strikes me why we use the word good to describe something as awful as the scene of an execution, accompanies by a prior flogging and beating in public! It was however very good indeed, that the richest and most powerful God man in all of history, God himself became man and died to be our substitute to […]
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We British get excited about the weather, the sun pops out for more than an hour and we rush to get the barbecue out, sit outside at the café or restaurant, get the shorts out, flowery shirts and away we go! Especially after the winter we have had with more rain this year than we have had in the last 100!! What a difference […]
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Have you ever asked the question, why me? Or have you ever felt that life has dealt you a hard hand, difficult week, year? It has seemed to me lately that the fundamental difference in life between people is that we are either God focused or me focused, a big statement, the whole of mankind fitting into these two categories. I would argue that […]
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Underneath everything and I mean everything is the pursuit of joy and pleasure. Nothing we do in life is done without that motivation, think about it. The person who bugrdingly accepts a Christmas drinks invite does so because underneath he thinks there is more pleasure in keeping people happy than saying no to people. Or take the person who takes his wife’s pink umbrella […]
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Ephesians 2:8 – Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major […]
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Phone’s ringing, your inbox is full, you’ve got five meetings booked this morning, you’ve just checked your bank balance and all this before 9.05am. Breathe. I never thought 7 letters would change the course of my last 7 days quite so dramatically. I went on a course with some colleagues last week to learn about coping with stress. This skeptic was converted by two […]
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Whether it is a wife asking the above question or if it is someone else asking any number of questions like, do you like my new shirt, what do you think of my new hair cut, or someone glancing at their watch and wondering how long their other half is going to take to get ready, then it all points to an obsession with […]
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From a Christian perspective the whole of the bible is the story of mans redemption by God, so God loves man and made him in his image but we turned from his rule to our own way and there was a consequence to this, God’s justice has to do something about this turning away. But in his great love he provided the way out […]