Martin Wickens
Speaking the Truth in Love
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The Thing that Is Done is That Which Shall Be
“Young people these days!” “In my day things were different!” “I remember when the whole town used to go to church!” You have heard it the same as I have. Children and teens today, if we are to believe the report, are the worst generation on earth since the time that a full 50% of…
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The Doomsday Book – Part 6
In continuing the series on the Book of Life we now come to Sanctification and the Book of Life-Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and…
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Hobson-A Story of Leaving the Roman Catholic Church
At the moment I am reading Richard Hobson of Liverpool: The Autobiography of a Faithful Pastor. If you want a copy of the book click the title just listed and you will get some options. Though Richard Hobson was in the Church of England his testimony of salvation is clear, he even speaks of being…
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Romance and the Perseids
Back in about 2003 Carrie and I had been casual friends for a couple of years. Through the summer of 2003 Carrie had been showing more and more interest in me… okay, during that summer I think we both had been realising a growing affection for each other but we were by no means letting…
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Strategic Stands
In September of 1955 a relatively small ship sailed north of Scotland, far north, to a small rock island called Rockall. One writer described it as “the most isolated small rock in the oceans of the world”. Her Majesty’s Ship Vidal arrived and the next day sent a small contingent of men to raise the…
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What Will You Leave Behind?
Recently I met a man who originally came from Hawaii. In discussing Hawaii’s history and current affairs, and by extension world affairs, I have to come to the conclusion that history is messy. One area of the world where acts in history have left us with troubles today is in the Pakistan/Afghanistan region. The British…
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The Doomsday Book – Part 5
It seems a long time ago now that I began thinking about the Doomsday Book and then by extension the example from which it drew its name, the Day of Judgment and the Book of Life in the book of Revelation. Already we have looked at a few passages on the Book of Life from…
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The Doomsday Book – Part 4
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.Psalm 69:28 The Psalmist and the Book of Life Remember that in a previous post we noted that the Book of Life was understood in the Old Testament societies as being something like a roll call, it listed…
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Prayer Request – Tom Dotson
Please pray for my Pastor, Tom Dotson. This morning he will begin a series of surgeries intended to rebuild his jawbone using bone from his hip. After today’s surgery he will be on a liquid diet for a while, then I believe there is more surgery to follow. From what I understand the recovery time…
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Prospering in Everything?
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Psalm 1:3 Most Christians will know this psalm and this verse especially. We could group it with the likes of John 3:16…