Turn and Run Bible: 1 Peter 5:8-10 Reading Resist [the devil], standing firm in the faith (V.9). Ali was a beautiful, smart and happy teenager with loving parents. But at the end of her school years something made her try heroin. Her parents saw changes in her and sent her to rehab after Ali admittedContinueContinue reading “Turn and Run”
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Shark Tonic
Shark Tonic Bible: Hebrews 12:1-11 Reading Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles (V.1). Have you ever heard of ‘shark tonic’? The proper term is “tonic immobility”, described as “a natural state of paralysis that animals enter … Sharks can be placed in a tonic immobility state byContinueContinue reading “Shark Tonic”
Godly Sorrow
Godly Sorrow Bible: 2 Corinthians 7:5-10 Reading Now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance (V.9). Thieves stole nearly £5,000 in sound and office equipment from a church, only to break in the following night to return everything they had taken. I guess the guiltContinueContinue reading “Godly Sorrow”
The Cheat Test
The Cheat Test Bible: Psalm 119:129-136 Reading Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me (V.133). One researcher did some tests on human behaviour. In one experiment, groups of people were set a test and told they’d receive money for every correct answer they got. Those people didn’t know, however,ContinueContinue reading “The Cheat Test”
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