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David Butcher
Contributing sermons since Mar 11, 2006
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Praying To Change
Contributed on Jan 27, 2007
PRAYER:- What are we praying for, personal success or the desert blossoming?
James 5:16b-18 NLT The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. 17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years! 18 Then he prayed for rain, and down it poured. The grass ...read more
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Do Not Forget His Goodness
Contributed on Jan 27, 2007
Seeing what we really do have in God and giving thanks.
DO NOT FORGET HIS GOODNESS Reading:- Deuteronomy 8:1-18 NLT "Be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then you will live and multiply, and you will enter and occupy the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors. 2 Remember how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness ...read more
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Reclaiming What Is Ours
Contributed on Dec 8, 2006
Knowing who we are in Christ and reclaiming what is rightfully ours.
Readings Genesis 14:14-16 (NIV) When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of ...read more
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Beloved
Contributed on Dec 8, 2006
Understanding the Love of God for us.
It is very unusual for me to read in a service from the AV but I really want to focus on one word which is commonly used in the AV, more so than in the modern translations. ‘Beloved’ Song of Solomon 2:8-17 AV 8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping ...read more
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God's Delight In His People
Contributed on Dec 8, 2006
That God delights in us and some reasons why.
Reading:-2 Samuel 22:1-22 David sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. 2 He said: "The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; 3 my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my ...read more
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I Hate The Thought Of Losing Things, -Worse Than ...
Contributed on Dec 8, 2006
(I hate the thought of losing things, -worse than that, I hate things being stolen, the thought of allowing someone the pleasure of my property. Someone asked me about the motivation to work in the harbour on crime prevention. I told him that a thief ...read more
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I Read A Story In A Paper This Week Of Mark ...
Contributed on Dec 8, 2006
I read a story in a paper this week of Mark Baylis who through quite amazing circumstances was reunited with his birth mother. Adopted at birth and brought up by wonderful parents, yet there was still the longing to know what had happened, was he really loved. The came the moment of reunion, ...read more
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Let Me Read You An E-Mail From A Missionary In ...
Contributed on Dec 8, 2006
Let me read you an e-mail from a missionary in Africa. “What an unintentional ’curse’ has been thrust on some parts of the African Church, certainly in our country, by missionaries not only preaching the Gospel but importing with it their own denomination and a Western way of worship. The result ...read more
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God Loves The Unlovely... (Perhaps The Only ...
Contributed on Dec 8, 2006
God loves the unlovely... (Perhaps the only human comparison is the continued love of child/parent in the face of cruelty etc. - Fred West’s daughter. Fred West, together with his wife Rose, was a ...read more
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When We Were Kids, Christmas Was A Wonderful ...
Contributed on Nov 12, 2006
When we were kids, Christmas was a wonderful time of the family together and new toys. Perhaps it comes from one incident that to this day I hate clothes as presents. One year there was a lovely present on the tree, wrapped like a Christmas Cracker. - When ...read more