Month: April 2015

Making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland

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Putting amazing back into grace – part 3

Horton is definitely American. I’ve never made and sold lemonade, though I hear it’s a past time that many young American folk enjoy. The closest equivalent I could find when I looked back through the mists of time was making and selling rose petal perfume in re-used two litre cola bottles (note to self; revisit…
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Putting amazing back into grace – Part 2

At the start of chapter two, Horton takes us right back to the beginning by first looking at Genesis 1:31; “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good”.  He tells us that we must first go back to creation to understand who we really are, the meaning of the fall, and…
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Putting amazing back into grace – Part 1

Michael Horton begins his book with a call for Christians to go back to basics; to begin again to explore and fully understand the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I totally agree with his opening paragraphs regarding church culture.  A large proportion of what we would term evangelicals tend to settle for an…
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