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2013/11 SANCTIFICATION

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2013/11 SANCTIFICATION When did you last have a conversation about sanctification or holiness? Perhaps you are already about to turn the page and see what else is in this magazine? But this is a vital issue!    I may surprise many by stating that the decline in evangelical circles in our nation is largely due to

2016/05 ROME & THE REFORMATION

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2016/05 Rome and the Reformation Father’ Raniero Cantalamessa, Preacher to the Papal Household since 1980, participated at the inauguration of the Church of England’s Tenth General Synod in Westminster Abbey in November 2015. The Catholic Herald reported that Cantalamessa praised the “theological and spiritual enrichment” of the Reformation. Fine words – but was this really

2014/01 ORDAINED WOMEN?

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2014/01 Should Women be Ordained? The announcement was made on 20th September 2013: The Church of Ireland had chosen Rev Pat Storey to be Bishop of Meath and Kildare.    ‘Nothing unusual in that’, you might say – except that Pat is not an abbreviation for Patrick but Patricia! Mrs Storey, rector of St Augustine’s in

2016/03 ROMAN CATHOLICISM – PART 2

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2016/05 Roman Catholicism Part 2 Last time, we looked at the opportunities afforded to Christian young people (indeed to us all) to positively witness for Christ to Roman Catholics. We considered various reasons why many of them are disillusioned with “religion” and suggested some ways in which we might evangelise them. Nothing is impossible with

2014/03 CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC

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2014/03 Contemporary Christian Music: Why Not? What is Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)? Wikipedia defines it thus, “Contemporary Christian music (or CCM—and occasionally “inspirational music”) is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith. Today, the term is typically used to refer to pop, rock, or praise

2016/07 1966 – REMEMBERED?

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2016/07 1966 Should it be Remembered? 1966: To most in the United Kingdom the year means only one thing: the triumph of the English soccer team in the World Cup – an event all the more memorable because it has not been repeated in the fifty years since! But for Free Presbyterians, there is something

2014/03 PRAYER MEETING

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2014/03 Distinctives Features of Free Presbyterianism THE PRAYER MEETING   The surroundings were less than luxurious: an old portable building, the usual combination of forms and the obligatory stacking chairs, well-worn carpet, and a make-shift pulpit. Known affectionately as ‘the hut’, the structure served as kitchen, venue for weekly children’s and youth meetings, and as

2016/07 WITNESSING TO MUSLIMS

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2016/07 Witnessing to Muslims All Christians will have a desire to share the gospel of Christ with people they meet. As we rub shoulders with others in this world we discover that they have their own faiths and world-views.  As such it is helpful to understand what they might think or believe in order to