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For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Eph 2:10 On my recent visit to Florence recently, I went to the Galleria della Accademia to see the famous Four Prisoners of Michaleangelo. I was reminded of this story. Out for a walk with his friend in a garden in Florence, Michelangelo stumbled across a block of marble lying...

No matter how long we have been practising our faith, God still has surprises in store for us. In my recent missionary trip to Ethiopia, I was able to discover the Lord's heart in a new way - in the poorest of the poor.  As Michael Card’s song of the same title goes, ‘In His distressing disguise, He hopes that we'll realise, that when we take care of the poorest of...

Maybe many of us have been told something unpleasant but at the same time, whoever it was who was telling it to us said ‘but don't take it personally’. Maybe the person meant well or maybe they didn’t. But as afar as the events of Holy Week are concerned, the One who proclaims the Good News to us not only means very well but invites us to take it very personally: the...

For anyone even slightly familiar with the Bible, the name ‘Exodus’ evokes images of the Israelites being freed from slavery and crossing the Red Sea into freedom. The word is still used today to describe the movement en masse of people from one place to another. Maybe fewer know that in the original Hebrew bible, this book is called ‘The Book of Names’ because the title is taken from the first...