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What Stephen saw

It is generally accepted that the first Christian Martyr was Saint Stephen. [Acts 7:54-60]. Despite the barbarism of the mode of his death, Stephen was stoned, there is something wonderful about he unfolding events which blow the sides out of any neat packaging we may use to contain our faith. Stephen was in front of…

Give us hearts so full of your love

Something to read I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. – Ephesians 3:18-19 from full reading…

NUMBERS

I wonder how many of you know how the numbers in the Bible relate to one another. I was aware of some of them, but it was really brought home to me at the District Synod when Rev Graham Thompson, our President of the Methodist Conference, led our opening worship. He led a Bible Study…

A Clean house

One of the things I try and put off as long as possible is housework! I’m possibly not the only one. Eventually I can put it off no longer and out come the cleaning bottles, J-clothes and dusters. Of course, once I have knuckled down it doesn’t take too long and the house once more…