I can well remember the complete astonishment on during a teaching time on the Indonesian Island of Nias when my friend Rudy Furlong was preaching and mentioned ‘Michael Jackson’. Blank look from the interpreter and all the locals assembled. Turns out they’d never heard of him. I think the negotiated settlement on a famous music …

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From Ed Welch and CCEF (Christian Counselling and Education Foundation) Two friends. One will give you advice. Good advice. The other will pray for you right then and there and will keep praying for you. Which one do you want to talk with? “It depends.” Yes, it does. Sometimes you might want some good advice. …

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Cracking quote courtesy of Martin Downes: A pearl of theological wisdom from Robert Traill (1642-1716): Usually such men that are for middle ways in points of doctrine, have a greater kindness for that extreme they go half-way to, than for that which they go half-way from. A Vindication of the Protestant Doctrine concerning Justification and …

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