Novelist Peter De Vries wrote The Blood of the Lamb about his eleven-year-old daughter, Carol, who died of leukaemia. At the children’s pavilion in the New York hospital the book’s main character, Wanderhope, gets to know other parents going through similar ordeals, including the jaded Stein, who announced, “The future is a thing of the …
Getting to know the Holy Spirit
Matthew 22:35-36 According to tradition, the great fourth century Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo was walking along the beach one day, puzzling over the doctrine of the Trinity, the idea that God is one being known to us as three Persons. Â After a while, Augustine observed a young boy running back and forth between the …
Thin red line (sermon – part 2)
Sermon by Rod Benson, Blakehurst Baptist Church, Sunday July 22, 2001 (Part 2 of 2) [continued from here] Job 1:1-3:26 In the midst of his unimaginable pain and anguish, Job’s three friends arrive to sympathise with him and comfort him.  They are shocked by his changed appearance, and they begin by sitting with him in the …
Should we design our descendants?
Ten days ago, The Guardian newspaper reported that the prospects for victims of heart attack, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and other chronic illnesses took a dramatic turn for the better when it was revealed that human cloning has been used for the first time to create embryonic stem cells from which new tissue – genetically identical …
Thin red line (sermon – part 1)
Sermon by Rod Benson, Blakehurst Baptist Church, Sunday July 22, 2001 (Part 1 of 2) [continued here] Job 1:1-3:26 The prize for the longest expository preaching series goes to Joseph Carroll who preached from the book of Job for 29 years somewhere near London Bridge. That’s about nine months on the sea monster of chapter 41! …
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