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There are only two ways people can try and get to Heaven. One is to obey all of God's commands without breaking a single one of them. The other is to trust in Jesus. If we were capable of obeying all of God's commands the Bible would be different. In the book of Acts some people had become Christians who weren't Jews. A group of Jews wanted these gentile believes to be circumcised and to obey the laws of Moses. Acts 15:1-12. The Apostle Paul...

A new kind of church is coming. A church that can meet anywhere, homes, cafes, or even surfing together by the sea. A church that has no pastors or preachers. A church that is based on the first churches in the Bible with less emphasis on preaching and a greater sense of the miraculous. The first churches met in people's homes. Acts 2:46,47. They continued daily in the temple and breaking bread from house to house. The first Christians were all...

In Britain the government are getting angry with people who use illegal TV firesticks which plug into the back of a TV and give you access to subscription programmes without having to pay. One or two sellers of these sticks have been sent to prison. But the full danger has not been understood. I must warn you very strongly. If you use these devices it will become impossible for broadcasters to make any money from their subscriptions. In 40 years...

What does it mean for Jesus to be the Messiah? The Messiah is the way to God. Jesus said, "I am the Way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me." The one who came from Heaven to take us back to Heaven. Jesus said, "In my father's house are many rooms. I go to prepare a place for you. If I go to prepare a place for you I will come back to take you there." John 14:1-6. The Messiah is the mediator between God and man,...

The author C S Lewis made a radio broadcast in the 1940s about people who said that they accepted Jesus as a great moral teacher but didn't accept his claim to be God. How could someone who mistakenly claimed to be God be a great moral teacher? The two don't go together. If Jesus believes he is God and he isn't, he is insane, like a man who thinks he is a poached egg. If Jesus knew he wasn't God and was lying, he would be the devil of Hell...

Why have people stopped going to church? The number of people attending church weekly in the UK is half what it was in 1976. It has fallen from 10 per cent to 5 per cent. Many churches are full of old people and wondering if they will still be there in 20 years time. The same situation is effecting most western countries. On an Irish radio station, a reporter said to a Catholic priest, 'You must despair.' He said, 'I don't despair. People have...

Some very strange things had been going out outside my neighbour's. All sorts of unfamliar vehicles were pulling up in his designated parking space where the big number 6 was painted on the ground. Last week there had been a really old looking Ford Zodiac. Now something even stranger. This little white vintage car with an open top, bright red leather seats and a tiny little engine at the front that might have been a hundred years old. A really...

I remember seeing the car sticker in the 1970s, 'Jesus Saves.' I hadn't the faintest idea what it meant or what Jesus saved people from. All the time Christians talk about being saved. What does it mean? Saved from what? We are saved from sin. In order to fully understand the meaning of this we need to appreciate how sinful we are and why it really matters. Nobody's perfect. We have all broken God's laws. Our sin has taken away the close...

I was driving home from work on a Friday afternoon. I had collected some bread and cakes from the bakers shop and delivered them to the local Salvation Army. As I drove the car through Sheffield City Centre, I recalled a conversation I had had in the school classroom 40 years before. My friend had been talking about going to church. I went to church more often than he did. Did I not think that I lived an extremely dull and boring life? I...

Blessings for obedience to God were promised to Israel thousands of years ago, before the time of Jesus. It is dangerous to take promises from the Old Testament and apply them to ourselves. Israel was very much God's chosen nation. We are not God's chosen nation. The church might be the people of God but even then, it is unlikely that all the promises made to Israel would equally apply to us. Before the time of Christ also means that they are...