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more books

With everyone trying to match the right present with the right person I thought I’d step in and help by recommending a book for Christmas.
Tim Keller’s excellent new book ‘The Prodigal God’ is, and I don’t say this lightly, probably the best book I have read this year. He looks at the parable of the [...]

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how to be a pharisee

In preaching about the contrast between Saul and Stephen I have come to the important question which is:
What is the essence of Pharisee-ism?
Jesus disgust at the Pharisees is universally apparent, never more so than in Matthew 23
13“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s [...]

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a new blog

Lex Loizides has started a blog!!
Lex is an evangelist and elder at Jubilee Community Church in Cape Town, South Africa. He speaks widely amongst our family of churches in Newfrontiers as well as leading the Front Edge initiatives, around the world.
He is writing here under the sub-heading ‘highlights from church history’ and not only [...]

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New name, new look, still me

We’ve had a makeover. It seemed everyone was having ‘work’ done and a very good friend who helps me and hosts this blog suggested a few changes. Thanks Ian!
The name ‘the naked preacher’, obviously not a literal description, was chosen because while in Cape Town I preached and cooked breakfast at the same time. The [...]

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