The violent rumbling in the ground intensifies as two youngsters consider their inevitable fate. Both their arms are fully outstretched, the tips of their fingers barely able to withstand the strain of supporting one another. Fearing for her life, one of them – a lanky teenage girl – dangles off the edge of a cliff, […]
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‘If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.”John 15 vs 7 A few years back, a friend called me out of the blue, her voice a delicate mix of shock, wonder, awe, and excitement. The conversation went as follows: Friend: Segs?
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‘I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit, apart from me you can do nothing.’John 15 vs 5A few months ago, my friend Nicola sent me an episode from Danielle Strictland’s Right Side Up Podcast, which quite frankly blew my mind
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‘Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.’John 15 vs 4A couple of years ago, I sought the Lord in prayer over and over again, asking him to give me a
Before I unveil this sorry tale of vain delusion, I must first of all pay homage to Britain’s finest city. Thank you, Bath, for your resplendent vibe, energy, and enchanting beauty. If God was ever to find himself on a dating app, he would no doubt put Bath as his hometown. Right, homage paid. Now
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Whenever my siblings and I visited Lagos during the school holidays, one of the very first questions my late mum and dad would ask us was, ‘ore mi nko?’, which roughly translated means ‘how’s my dear friend?’. The dear friend they were referring to was Queen Elizabeth II. They adored the queen and brought up
‘How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?’John 5 vs 44 The above words, spoken by Jesus to the Jewish leaders as they probed him from all manner of angles, have quite rightly always been interpreted as a rebuke of
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I yearn to create a being in my image. One that has my heart and spirit. A being that I will love and cherish like no other. I shall give it dominion, joy, love, peace, and an abundance of everything it could ever need. What’s more, it will have the freedom to make its own
A warm glow of sunshine caresses the bare arms of a middle-aged woman as she completes her early morning run on a serene spring morning. A stickler for routine, she’s ran the same five-mile route for over twenty years; one and a half times around the perimeter of Richmond Park, then straight across the grasslands
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‘But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and was filled with compassion for him. He ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.The son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your