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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esv study bible
Having just taken delivery of the new ESV study bible I thought I’d make my recommendation. It is an excellent study tool, thoroughly absorbing and informative. Having used the NIV study bible for many years and learned a huge amount from it my initial reaction is that this new study bible is significantly more useful!! [...]
god is busy!!
Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.”
John 5 v 17
I wonder if you have ever considered the question, What is God doing?
I have recently been reading the story of Joseph which begins in Genesis 39. This must have been a question Joseph [...]
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 [...]
do everything without complaining or arguing
14Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe 16as you hold out[c] the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did [...]
the joy of the lord is your strength
Nehemiah said, “… Do not grieve…. for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
Nehemiah 8 v 10
For some looking into churches like ours the criticism is levelled that we are ‘happy - clappy’ or for the slightly more cerebral ‘triumphalist’ in our expressions of faith. My initial reaction is usually that if the alternative [...]
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 [...]