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1% of couples have 3 miscarriages so when we embarked on our fourth pregnancy we had felt we had served the statistics and that even though we had previously lost 3 babies this time it might be different. Our hope was bolstered by a slightly different approach medically with some extra hormone tablets just to make sure. For the first time we reached the […]
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I have been a Dad three times yet I’ve never met one of my children. No I didn’t put them up for adoption or fall out with their Mother I have been through three miscarriages, the latest is still quite raw. One of the things I have noticed in this process is how often this subject is taboo, how often we don’t talk about […]
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Phil H chatting to some spiritual seekers Guest blogger Graham Allen who helps to lead a church in the US gives us some great keys here, enjoy! NEW AGE RELIGION – HELP THOSE U MEET 2 MEET GOD! Thanks to a recent request I’m glad to blog about how we can help to introduce Jesus Christ to a person believing in New […]
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What a joy it has been over the last few weeks to be opening up Luke’s gospel with people from all kinds of backgrounds who have been coming into the Lighthouse. Some have come in to do bread-making, others to help, or receive help, from Jigsaw, http://www.jigsawwoking.org/jigsaw/index.htm an outreach to financially needy pre-school families. Others have come to serve in the Lighthouse, building and […]
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I have been meeting with various people these last weeks both in and outside of the Christian faith. One of the things that has struck me is how much we rely on feelings to be our barometer, guide, truth definer. It feels right to me so it must be true, or I don’t feel like God is giving me peace in this situation so […]
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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 […]