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| Blessings - Helping To Retain Them | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| Should spiritual blessings automatically fade? Should they result in guilt? This article leads us to the Scriptural view of what blessing is for, what rightly to expect and how to avoid misunderstanding. | ||
| But I Can't Pray Aloud! Pastoral Insights | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| A common source of wrong guilt-feelings. The article provides a clear and sympathetic explanation, teaching and guidance both for those who can and those who can't. It does much to dissolve any unnecessary 'divide'. | ||
| Christians and Satan - An Introduction | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| Christians have to be very careful indeed when writing or speaking about evil not to do the enemy's advertising for him! Christians should, by and large, not be interested in him, although it makes sense to 'know the enemy' to some degree. This article consists of six mini-talks on Satan designed to offset the subject of evil by affirming and renewing commitment to Jesus. | ||
| Couples Praying Together | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| This is a widespread problem with many misconceptions. The article provides penetrating understanding sensitively explained, with some original guidance to begin again. A best-seller when in pamphlet format. | ||
| The Essence of the Church | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| This short article looks at what makes up the true essence of the Church - those things that define the Church and are essential for her survival. It also establishes the purpose of Renewal in the Church. | ||
| Evangelism - the Spiritual Key | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| This article should be read in conjunction with the article Spiritual Warfare and the Ordinary Christian. It deals with the usually ignored New Testament view that the eyes of the unbelievers have been 'blinded' [2 Cor.4:4], and the New Testament solution. | ||
| Evil's Strategy in Church Life | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| By examining a key scripture passage this article looks at what can be learned about today's evil pressures on Christians and Church Life, and how this can be used to reduce the occasions when those who follow Christ unknowingly work against him. | ||
| Fasting - 21st Century Style | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| A short article looking at Fasting today. The article examines the reasons for fasting, the things we can fast from, and the spiritual significance of fasting. | ||
| Growing Daily in the Holy Spirit | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| 'But daily increase in the Holy Spirit more and more'. This is the Church's prayer for Christians, yet rarely is any guidance given about how to do it. Here it is at last! | ||
| Marriage? Whose Choice is it Anyway? | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| To supplement other publications, this article looks at the little-asked question - 'As a Christian, whose choice is it ?' It has helpful comments on being single, on various 'mixed' unions e.g. to those of no faith or of a different Christian tradition, etc. | ||
| Praying & the Life of Prayer | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| What is happening when our former patterns of prayer don't work for us any more? That is but one of the many problems answered by this complete overview of prayer, and the many natural routes and styles of Christian growth. | ||
| 'Resting in the Spirit': Questions & Answers | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| Sometimes folk collapse temporarily when prayed over. It worries some and excites others. It should do neither. This question-and-answer article includes all the Biblical material and the conclusions reached in John Richards' standard work on the subject. | ||
| Spirit of Christmas | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| This longer article is arranged in six major sections that might be used as a series of six - or twelve - daily readings during Christmastide. It contains down-to-earth reflections on Luke's six stories. Each story has been freshly translated, is 'self-contained' and ideal for reading to a wider public than the regular churchgoer. | ||
| Spiritual Warfare & the Ordinary Christian | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| The 'ordinary Christian' is put into this title because this is nothing whatever to do with specialist ministries of exorcism, but about the way spiritual warfare touches our ordinary everyday lives. How we should understand it, and what we can do about it. | ||
| Tears - Gift of the Holy Spirit? | Read Article | (Back to List) |
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Many people in their spiritual lives experience the Gift of Tears, but are unaware that such a thing exists, and are
probably distressed that their experience of blessing seems not to conform with other Christians'. This article is
probably the only readily available guidance on the subject. It examines tears in Scripture; places the gift firmly within the context of the renewing work of the Holy Spirit today; sheds light on its role, and gives guidance to those who have it. |
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| Time - Redeeming It the Christian Way | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| Is it God's plan for us that we should experience Time as the enemy? No! This article looks first at the problem of Time and its pressures on us. It then goes on to look at how as Christians we can redeem Time, with lessons from the life of Jesus himself. | ||
| Tongues - All You Need to Know & More | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| This article provides a balanced and Biblical look at 'speaking in tongues' which will increase the understanding both of those who practice it and those who do not, and gives ample guidance about it. | ||
| At The Cross: Jesus's Seven Sayings | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| This article examines Jesus's seven sayings or 'Words' from the Cross. It was originally written as a Good Friday meditation on the Cross, and there are prayers and thoughts at the end of each section if you wish to use it in that way. Some hymns are also suggested in the Appendix. | ||
| The 'Wilderness Experience' Explained | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| It is very common that a special time of blessing seems to result in the demolition of much that is dear. Inadequate teaching ill-prepares Christians for this. The concept of 'wilderness-experience' explains much of such experiences. | ||
| From Gloom to Glory | Read Article | (Back to List) |
| A 7-day cycle of notes and prayers, originally written to be used for a local church in which the light of Christ seemed to be burning low, but applicable to many situations. The article looks at how the spiritual health of a church can be affected when we use it for our own purposes, and not for God's. | ||
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