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Exodus 16 | Who Then Shall Provide for Us?
Faith Forgotten in the Wilderness (Introduction) Archbishop William Temple once said, “When I pray, coincidences happen. When I don’t, they don’t.” It is something so simple that is profound, isn’t it? Have you ever had that sort of experience or realisation? Praying for something and seeing it happen when it seemed unlikely. I don’t mean…
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Who Shall Save Us? (Exodus 1)
Faithfulness Forgotten (Introduction) One of the great ironies of a church building is the plaque that hangs on our walls, often to tell the story of some great effort in war or the local community; yet, as we read of it in the years that have passed, we know very little of the person or…
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This Is Our Call to Our Home (Matthew 10:1-8)
Sent with the Mercy and Message of the Kingdom Last week, as we opened up the first half of this passage, we thought together about what it means to call this place that becomes home for each of us. Not just as a city we live near, or a parish we drive into, or streets…
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From Plagues to Covenant (Hope in The Exodus)
Freedom Formed by God’s Story 1. Introduction — Freedom Is Only the Beginning In 2009, I was travelling for the first time out of the UK/Ireland, by myself with a team, to Senegal. From start to finish over those two weeks, it was one of the most formative times of my life—the constant experience of…
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1 | Grace in the Wilderness and For the Wilderness | Matthew 4: 1-11
I wonder: if you were asked what some of the challenges the Church faces in our context are, what would you say? The answer would depend a lot on our background and our desire for our own lives. We might say: declining numbers, a loss of tradition, a lack of confidence, among other things. Then,…
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Atr Irwin 