The loving family life of SpurgeonA great article from the 'Banner Of Truth' magazine about Spurgeon, in my opinion one of Britain's finest preachers, if not the best! . It was nice to see Spurgeon's loving encouragement to his wife when he went to a far away place to preach the... See More »
Caravan park experienceThat time in the afternoon where we're going back to chill before my uncle's main event- others are going for a ciesta 🤭 On reflection I could easily spend a week in a caravan park like this- great selection of food places, (serving food people... See More »
Poole DorsetHad a good time this morning with my wife, mum and dad - on the way dad singing along to Rammstein's Amerika and the "National Express" song, now time to see what happens for my uncle's birthday with everyone at the caravan park! (4)
Bible reading with a view Lovely view from this morning while reading God's word at the caravan park which has been great fun. Felt so good as I had lost this travel Bible and got it handed back, reading the Bible on the phone is NOT the same. (1)
The world at your doorstep.A great article from the 'Banner of Truth' magazine by Paul Levy. He begins by saying let us also not forget pastors who faithfully preach the Gospel in small towns and villages with static populations, this is particularly challenging. The main... See More »
A couple more points..... Before each service my Wednesday Bible study pastor and the elder pray upstairs alone for the souls of everyone in town... before every service. How often do we do this for our area? . A lovely lady at church told with joy about watching a news... See More »
Bible Study Notes 24/04/25. God loans people their power so to speak- at 2:35 AM when the Pope died, his power departed from him. Not so with God- unlike us he always has his power and it never needs to be replenished. . God is sovereign over all and that includes Satan-... See More »
Mexico? Open Doors World Watchlist?Not from the government but because of threats such as cartel members. You see, cartel members don't like the church giving hope to potential cartel recruits! The cartels offer a life of paranoia and a strong chance of a very gruesome death,... See More » (1)
The sermon that struck a nerve....My Wednesday Bible study pastor very kindly sent me the sermon notes for his sermon on Ressurection Sunday so I did notes on his notes! He told me there were some visitors and two walked out in outrage- showing the very divisive nature in how we... See More »
Sermon Notes Ressurection Sunday 2025. In a world with no resurrection- sin and death would have the last word but praise be to God that is not the case! . As Christians the ressurection should give us hope with bereavement of Christians, hope with illness, etc . Jesus as Lord and... See More » (1)
Ressurection Sunday 2025"He is risen" three words that changed the world. Today we celebrate Christ's ressurection, showing he really was who he said he was! Imaginine all the discouragement and doubt the disciples felt- and the joy they experienced at the ressurection of... See More » (1)
Easter Saturday ThoughtsEaster Saturday- how must the disciples felt- doubt? Defeat? Well tommorow we will find out they were wrong and three words that changed history- HE IS RISEN! I have told you a few characters I know from church and I forgot to mention another one... See More » (1)
Sermon Notes Good Friday Special 2025At my mum and dad's for the easter weekend so went to my former church which did a wonderful three hour service today with churches around the area! The three hours flew by! . The chief priests... the crowds.... and you? Yes we are responsible like... See More » (2)
Bible Study Notes 16/04/25. Prayer is a Christian's native breath! . Naturally then, Satan will discourage you for example- "Don't bother praying for your unsaved relatives, you've done it all this time and they're still unsaved so why bother?" . God never learns- he knows... See More »
Maundy Thursday 2025To start with a prayer by Open Doors that during Maundy Thursday God would strengthen the persecuted church in their own dark nights. Now for the main point of this post- today we remember Christ's anguish at the garden of Gethsemane. It is a pain... See More » (1)
Two more Lental thoughts1. From my 'Memento Mori' Lent devotional book. We know the home town incident of Jesus, people just got hard hearts for Jesus as they knew him and also believed nothing good could come from their hometown. But we couldn't be guilty of the above... See More »
Holy Week and ChurchI was reading my Open Doors prayer diary during this morning's devotions and was reminded of something about holy week. Maundy Thursday is tommorow and there will be many church services over the coming week for us to attend! But Open Doors... See More » (2)
Bhumika Open DoorsGod used Bhumika's niece to introduce Bhumika to the saving knowledge of Christ- she went to church and gave her life to Christ in June 2022. This story is not usual in the sense that it was Bhumika's children that rejected her for her faith- not... See More »
Sermon Notes 13/04/25 weekend notes too.... and an 80s sitcom parody?So over the weekend my wife's cousin came down to visit- good date to choose as it was lovely weather! A highlight was being introduced to my wife's cousin's feiends who live nearby, they are a couple and they are a Ghanaian couple and they are... See More » (1)
Bible Study Notes 09/04/25Sorry all busy with hosting relatives but here it is, Wednesday Bible Study Notes from the Baptist chapel! . The study focused on God's omnipresence focusing on Psalm 139: 7-12 . We can never fully comprehend God- this should stretch our minds, if... See More »
Prayer RequestA prayer request for my brothers and sisters in Christ. My wife has been sent for urgent testing at hospital as she has been hacking up blood when coughing. I have not done this on a prayer request before but please inbox other Christians on this... See More »
Ruth and a reccomendationThe daily Bible reading plan took me to one of my favourite Bible books- the book of Ruth, I don't know why but I always get moved by that story! It's amazing if you think about it- Ruth's decision to leave her family behind to go with her mother in... See More » (1)
Sermon Notes 06/04/25. Belonging= A huge need on the human hierarchy of needs, how much more for Christians- we need to be part of a local church, seeing other Christians, etc in our walk with Christ- I admit most of my friends aren't Christians so I always appreciate... See More »
A standalone articleThe final part of my coverage of the Release International Apr-Jun 2025 will take me to an article worth mentioning in and of itself- the mention of Afghan brothers and sisters in Christ finding refuge in Brazil- what a way of showing God's work... See More » (1)
