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The following comes to us from the Baptist World Alliance (thanks, Olwyn, for bringing it to our attention). Baptists across Israel and the Palestinian Territories request fervent prayer for just peace. This includes the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel with 17 Baptist churches and the Council of Local Evangelical Churches in the Holy Land…

We are never left without support. Sometimes we feel intensely isolated and alone. We wonder if faithfulness is really worth it, and it seems that it is us against the world. Elijah knew this experience very well. The mountaintop ‘fire-from-heaven’ experience had left him drained, and opposition had plunged him into a deep depression where…

Happenings 4 May 23

Just Thinking…In a world filled with wars and rumours of wars, of people, like Putin and situations like Ukraine, it is good to remember the words of Psalm 2: Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples? Earth-leaders push for position, Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks, The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers: “Let’s…

Just Thinking…In a world filled with wars and rumours of wars, of people, like Putin and situations like Ukraine, it is good to remember the words of Psalm 2: Why the big noise, nations? Why the mean plots, peoples? Earth-leaders push for position, Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks, The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers: “Let’s…

Just Thinking…One of the questions I cycle around to again and again in living is, “Lord, where are you in this?” And the ‘this’ in question is usually a situation which I am finding challenging. I don’t always see what God is wishing to achieve through these times, but sometimes I do, and the thing that…

Just Thinking…Today, we farewelled a beloved member of our church.  It got me thinking… If you had three sentences to sum up your life … …  three sentences to be read at your funeral … … what would you want to have read out? This is your homework for this week! In Him Murray This Sunday…This…

Just Thinking…Today, we farewelled a beloved member of our church.  It got me thinking… If you had three sentences to sum up your life … …  three sentences to be read at your funeral … … what would you want to have read out? This is your homework for this week! In Him Murray This Sunday…This…

Just Thinking…We woke this morning to the news that the Queen has died. She has been the longest reigning British monarch, ruling for 70 years. No doubt there will be many tributes, recollections, speculations, pageantry and video montages over the coming days. A comment made by someone on the news this morning, however, sticks in…

Just Thinking…I don’t know if you are a ‘Lord of the Rings’ fan? There are a few of them to be found in my house, and because of that, some interest in Amazon Prime’s Rings of Power series which is soon to be released (although on yet another streaming platform!!!!). I was reading some musings from a Tolkien fan,…