Entries by Bob Dunnett

BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

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“John baptised with water but in a few days you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit” (Jesus to his disciples) Acts 1:5 “Exalted to the right hand of God, he (Jesus) has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear”. (Peter preaching at Pentecost) Acts […]

AN EXCELLENT PRAYER INITIATIVE

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We are coming to the end this week of what I believe is one of the most productive and promising of the many prayer initiatives that we have seen of recent years.  I am referring to the ten day prayer initiative launched by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and John Sentamu, the Archbishop of […]

WATCHING YOUR THOUGHTS

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THE CALL TO GODLINESS in an AGE OF JUDGEMENT – 4  “We have the mind of Christ” 1 Cor.2:16 “Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus” Phil.2:5 “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind” Rom. 12:2 “I will put my laws into their minds” Heb. 8:10 “Love the Lord your […]

STRAWS IN A SECULAR WIND

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Recent reports from funeral directors and burial authorities have noted a very sharp decline in Church and Christian funerals.  Newspapers have commented on it. They have confirmed what many of us have noted with much sadness over a number of years. Funeral “services” can now be conducted by a great variety of people and are […]

APPALLING VULNERABILITY

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What a lesson was driven home to us this last week end! A cyber bug crippling hospitals and businesses; operations and consultations stopped in their tracks, and cars frozen on assembly lines. The lesson was simply that our modern world is appallingly vulnerable. Cyber sabotage, for whatever reason, may not be as obviously bloodthirsty in […]

“THE END OF HISTORY ?”

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In the last decade of the twentieth century a well-known American Professor wrote an historical survey in which he made a startling comment that we had reached “the end of history”. On the face of it the statement was absurd, but what he was seemingly trying to convey was that we had reached a stage […]

THE BLESSINGS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

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Our last Bible Page looked at the beauty of holiness, and endeavoured to show that when we recognise just how beautiful a godly character is, we shall be all the more motivated to holiness in our own lives. Aspiration for beauty is a noble and powerful motivation, and seeking the beauty of holiness becomes not […]

A PROPHET WRESTLES WITH JUDGEMENT

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“I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians” Hab. 1:5-6        “Does he who disciplines nations not punish?” Ps 94:10 Habakkuk, the prophet, was a godly man who had a deep hatred for violence and injustice (Hab. 1:1-3). But unhappily, […]

THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS

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THE CALL TO GODLINESS in an AGE OF JUDGEMENT – 2 “Worship the Lord in the beauty of his holiness” 1 Chron. 16:29  “Your beauty should not come from outward adornment ….Rather it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in […]

GOD AT WORK IN HIS WORLD

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“The Lord has made known his salvation and revealed his righteousness to the nations …. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God” Ps 98:3 “Come and see what the LORD has done, The desolations he has brought on the earth; He makes wars to cease to the ends of […]