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New recommended Christian resources

There’s a wealth of books and resources for Christians and churches and it can be quite a maze to negotiate to find good quality books to buy. To help deal with this I’ve put together a small shop of Christian resources from some of the best Christian authors. The resources cover a wide range of [...]

You live longer under a faith believing doctor

Image via Wikipedia An interesting report has just been published which shows that non faith doctors are 40% more likely to ‘sedate’ and hasten death in palliative care patients than doctors of faith. An even more interesting twist on the story is that the concerns are not that you are more likely to die sooner [...]

Kiva projects added to sidebar

Image via CrunchBase There’s a new feature in the sidebar of the website which is the Kiva micro loan feature. Because the current plug-in only allows filtering projects to a continental level I’ve also included a link direct to projects in Pakistan. Kiva micro loans are a great way to help and support small scale [...]

Galatians 6:10 Christians for Christians in Pakistan

Image via Wikipedia Watching the impacts of the floods on people in Pakistan is heart breaking even more so when you hear stories and reports of Christians being denied aid because of their faith. For Christian around the world this should be of real concern – that their brothers and sisters in Christ are being [...]

50% of people in UK surviving on 1% of the wealth

This is a blog I’ve wanted to write for a few weeks but haven’t had time.  It originates in research I have done for the 5 year strategic business plan that I did for my company and it the results also led to me putting together a short series of sermons to try and encourage [...]

Countdown to church launch in Abergavenny begins

Tomorrow sees the formal initial stages of church planting in Abergavenny. We have the first interim elders meeting to beginning the planning of the church strategy. Until we have a team of local people who are willing  to be elders the church will be ‘overseen’ by a team from a couple of churches based in [...]

Are we really so out of touch with the excluded?

I’ve been watching with a certain degree of amusement the outcry about the way that Christianity is being portrayed at the moment in Eastenders. I’m not sure if it’s good or bad but I don’t have any idea what people are complaining about as I never watch the programme. For me what is of concern [...]

It’s time to cut the overseas aid budget

It was an interesting Question Time on BBC last night and one of the most telling questions was put by a young girl who wanted to know why housing benefit was going to be cut which would make her homeless. Michael Moore MP, the Scottish Secretary, quite rightly did not have the guts to look [...]

Did churches get bitten by the property bug?

I often wonder how many churches were bitten by the property bug and played the housing boom game and I wonder now how many of those churches are paying the price of making a quick buck. Increasingly I am finding many churches having difficulty finding good quality senior pastors and leaders and a lot of [...]

Get involved and have your say on where the cuts will fall.

David Cameron’s speech today has made it clear that things are going to be pretty tough in the UK for the next few years thanks to Labour’s poor book-keeping ability. We’re greatly in debt and savings have to be made. One of the things the the Prime minister did say was that they will be [...]

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    • Galatians 6:10

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    Our Progress by Christopher Ross