Stephen’s speech is a watershed moment in the history of the church of God! The word “Watershed” has taken on the meaning of a big change in how people do or think about something. I am only going to look at one aspect of this today. I will concentrate on the Temple rather than he […]

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Acts 6: 1-7, “Distractions.”

The problem with being side-tracked as a Christian is that you can feel pretty good about what you are doing! If you are helping those in the community who are down and out, you can feel that you are doing God’s Work and to some extent you are but if you have no thought to […]

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When someone dies, we can think about a lot of things and those who speak can easily talk about someone’s achievements. It might do with their character, the business they have built up, their contribution to the family or even their work in the community. Yet, if you are a Christian, you want to hear […]

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I can’t say this any stronger. A Spirit filled Christian speaks! In fact they have to speak! We are not quite sure who said these words, “Preach the gospel if necessary use words.” (Francis of Assisi). I use to sympathise with that statement until I realised it was ridiculous. “A Spirit filled Christian speaks and […]

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What Peter was saying was that Jesus is the Holy One of God. Jesus was the Messiah. Jesus was the suffering Servant. All of these words evoke images in the minds of any true Israelites. All their hopes had been in the one who would be their king and now Peter was saying that they […]

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