One Year Bible 2010

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One Year Bible 9 Mar 2010

Human Nature

Proverbs 6:30-35 | Mark 14:43-72 | Leviticus 19:1-20:27

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was probably the most important Russian literary artist of the second half of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1970. In 1945…

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One Year Bible 8 Mar 2010

But ...

Psalm 31:9-18 | Mark 14:17-42 | Leviticus 17:1-18:30

During one of the very severe potato famines in Ireland a number of families wrote to their landlord a letter saying they had absolutely no money at all to pay their rents and begged to be let off all…

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One Year Bible 7 Mar 2010

Rescued

Psalm 31:1-8 | Mark 13:32-14:16 | Leviticus 15:1-16:34

Tony Bullimore, aged 56 and one of Britain’s most experienced transatlantic yachtsman, was feared dead after his 60 foot yacht, Exide Challenger, capsized amid the icy vastness of the Southern…

One Year Bible 6 Mar 2010

God Turns Things Around

Psalm 30:8-12 | Mark 13:1-31 | Leviticus 14:1-57

‘Big John’ walked into our night shelter for the homeless at St Paul Onslow Square two years ago. He had been living on the streets of London for over ten years. Before that he had spent…

One Year Bible 5 Mar 2010

The Importance of the Heart

Proverbs 6:20-29 | Mark 12:28-44 | Leviticus 13:1-59

The human heart weighs less than a pound. A healthy heart beats 100,000 times a day, 35 million times a year and over 2.5 billion times in the average lifetime. In the course of a lifetime it will pump…

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One Year Bible 4 Mar 2010

Taking the Long View

Psalm 30:1-7 | Mark 12:13-27 | Leviticus 11:1-12:8

When I was at university I was taken to a talk entitled ‘Where will you be in ten years time?’ It was intended to be an encouragement to us to persevere in our faith in spite of all the challenges…

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One Year Bible 3 Mar 2010

Authority

Psalm 29:1-11 | Mark 11:27-12:12 | Leviticus 9:1-10:20

That night I was astonished to discover he was the speaker. A room full of teenagers and students listened with rapt attention. You could have heard a pin drop. His message was very simple and focused…

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