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Northern Lights: November 2010
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010. It is Sunday 31st October and Jane and I are attending Hall Green Baptist Church in Howarth. I’ve got a week off and we decide to visit one of our local evangelical churches for feeding and fellowship. Mick Lockwood is preaching on Luke 11. The usual distractions of being in a different building and hearing a different voice are soon lost as I listen to Mick preaching on Luke 11:1-13. Great passage outlining Jesus’ teaching on prayer. My heart is overwhelmed with joy. Why?
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Northern Lights: August 2010
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010. More Lessons to Learn. So after two years of being unsettled and having to learn to rely on the Lord for daily grace and wisdom we accept an invitation for me to become Pastor of South Craven Evangelical Church. The date is 4th May 2010. Finally some certainty and something solid we can focus on. Just when life seemed to be getting simpler! There is still more to learn. But how on earth is Jane going to react when she gets home. What if Lois didn’t come through? How would I cope?
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Northern Lights: Learning from the Levites
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Monday, 9 March 2015. Learning from the Levites. In my mid-teens the Lord graciously awakened me spiritually and I sensed that my life would, in response, be given to full-time to gospel ministry. What puzzled me was that Jesus, who at 12 was confounding the temple scholars, didn’t begin his public ministry until he was 30. Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. NIV (Anglicised, 2011). Why did the perfect Son of God wait so long? And what could I learn from that? What...
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Northern Lights: Preaching – Personality, Practice, Prescription and Patience
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013. Preaching – Personality, Practice, Prescription and Patience. When I arrived at South Craven Evangelical Church three years ago one of the things the deacons were keen for me to do was to develop the men of the church in serving in the public ministry of the church. One man who led Bible studies when I arrived no longer does so, as at his own request and my assessment, that was not his gifting. Others have read publicly and having struggled because it is not their gifting w...
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Northern Lights: March 2015
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Monday, 9 March 2015. Learning from the Levites. In my mid-teens the Lord graciously awakened me spiritually and I sensed that my life would, in response, be given to full-time to gospel ministry. What puzzled me was that Jesus, who at 12 was confounding the temple scholars, didn’t begin his public ministry until he was 30. Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. NIV (Anglicised, 2011). Why did the perfect Son of God wait so long? And what could I learn from that? What...
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Northern Lights: August 2013
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013. Preaching – Personality, Practice, Prescription and Patience. When I arrived at South Craven Evangelical Church three years ago one of the things the deacons were keen for me to do was to develop the men of the church in serving in the public ministry of the church. One man who led Bible studies when I arrived no longer does so, as at his own request and my assessment, that was not his gifting. Others have read publicly and having struggled because it is not their gifting w...
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Northern Lights: December 2010
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Monday, 13 December 2010. My first blog entry records the sense of the Lord’s overriding in bringing us here. The churches here in Yorkshire, though in a very large county and widely spread geographically are closely linked through various networks. Two new young Pastors. Jim was inducted into the Pastorate at Ingleton Evangelical Church not long after I arrived here. He had completed studies at WEST and began as Pastor in September and then got married in October. Halifax is a big place of 200,000 peopl...
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Northern Lights: October 2011
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Monday, 10 October 2011. How do you measure church growth? We're 16 months into our time here in Crosshills and it has been quite a whirlwind. There have been so many encouragements and answers to prayer and I love being with the church family on Sundays. But are we growing? According to the info given me when we arrived in June last year there were: 43 regular attenders, of whom 28 were members and 4 young people at uni. Now we have: 80 regular attenders, of whom 36 are members and 9 young people at uni.
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Northern Lights: April 2011
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011. Shoulders or Shadows: Measuring Giants. We all have them: heroes of the faith; people we look up to and are inspired by, spiritual giants. But who are the true giants and what legacy do they leave? This is something I have been pondering much of late. I have thanked the Lord often for my predecessor Stephen Emmott – I have thanked him too. He rode the highs and lows for nearly thirty years: the excitement of seeing new people coming and the heart break of seeing some go; the enc...
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Northern Lights: Shoulders or Shadows: Measuring Giants
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011. Shoulders or Shadows: Measuring Giants. We all have them: heroes of the faith; people we look up to and are inspired by, spiritual giants. But who are the true giants and what legacy do they leave? This is something I have been pondering much of late. I have thanked the Lord often for my predecessor Stephen Emmott – I have thanked him too. He rode the highs and lows for nearly thirty years: the excitement of seeing new people coming and the heart break of seeing some go; the enc...
