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Why we’re screwed without prayer!!
Tarquin Syndrome (6) The writer of the letter to the Hebrews writes in 4:16 “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” He is writing to a group of Jewish Christians who are being persecuted by the Roman Empire because of their beliefs in Christ. And the writer is urging them to come to…
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Straight Talk People in Niddrie don’t beat about the bush. One of the lads who comes to our youth café very bluntly went up to a student, who is serving with us for a couple of weeks, whom he had never met before and asked: ‘Are you a virgin? What do you think about sex before marriage?’ The language people use in Niddrie is equally straight down the line. I have never…
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Culture differences I am English. I went to a private school and received a degree at the University of Edinburgh. My Dad worked in insurance. I like to play golf. I love reading the Sunday Times. I speak with a slightly posh, London accent. I enjoy eating humous with pitta bread. I work in Scotland and for those who have seen Braveheart, the Scots dislike the English.…
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Not Sexy As a new Christian I was obsessed with reading biographies about missionaries who went out to preach the gospel to distant lands. Some of my favourite biographies were of people like C.T.Studd, Jim Eliott, Hudson Taylor and Jackie Pullinger. Each one of them gave up everything to share the gospel in unevangelized areas. They were great sources of encouragement…
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Nobody is innocent One of the first mistakes that people often make working in a more deprived kind of area is that they assume that everyone is ‘innocent’. What do I mean by this? There is often a romanticising of working in poorer communities where one imagines that if we just show these ‘poor’ people God’s love and serve them and be nice to them then they will change…
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I don’t know if you have seen the YouTube clip called ‘gap yah’. If you haven’t then you should definitely check out this clip: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU). In it, a stereotypical upper-middle class guy calls his friend on his gap year (a year out taken by many in the UK between leaving school and going to university) and he talks about the life changing…