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Fresh Perspectives on the ‘Lewis Revival’

Fresh Perspectives on the ‘Lewis Revival’

Tom Lennie

Everybody loves a good story. And there’s plenty of good stories to be found in the famed Lewis revival of 1949–52. Such as the seven men who prayed together in a cold barn through long winter’s nights, two or three times a week. Or the story of the two elderly Smith sisters – aged 84 and 82 years respectively; one completely blind, the other bent double with arthritis – who received premonitions from God that revival was coming, and prayed the movement into being.

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Knowing Nothing is a Good Place to Start

Knowing Nothing is a Good Place to Start

Catherine MacKenzie

Throughout my childhood, from ages 5 to 18, I dreaded the day that my parents received my annual school report card. I think my mother has kept some of these dull but disappointing publications on the off chance that her oldest daughter blindsides the family with a moment of brilliance. She may then wave these foolscap pieces of paper in the faces of various educational professionals and say – So there! But she won’t as she is far too gracious for that…

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Wheels and Wings

Wheels and Wings

Catherine MacKenzie

During the 1980s my family did some mammoth car journeys. My parents seemed to think nothing of attaching a caravan to the back of their Citroen estate and heading off to a tiny little village in the South of France, or a soaking wet caravan site on the banks of the Rhine. The car was one of those unusual vehicles you don’t see anymore, as they’ve been replaced by minivans.

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Broken Children, Sovereign God– An Overview

Broken Children, Sovereign God– An Overview

Leslie Schmucker

The fall of man altered every atom of creation. From manhood to motherhood to matrimony, nothing is as it should be. Some after–effects of the fall are mere annoyances, like the fear of spiders, or indigestion, or having to wear uncomfortable clothing. But most by–products of the fall take the breath from your lungs, wrench your heart from your chest, and are counted in tears. Childhood mental illness is one of those by–products.

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Meeting Christ in the Garden

Meeting Christ in the Garden

Tim Chester

The great nineteenth–century preacher Charles Spurgeon described the Song of Solomon as the Most Holy Place. He compared the historical books of the Bible to the outer courts of the temple, and the Gospels, Epistles, and Psalms to the Holy Place: the place that only the priests could enter. His point was that, to a greater and lesser extent, all these books bring us near to God. But the Song of Songs is ‘the Most Holy Place’, the inner sanctum, a holy of holies. It ‘occupies a sacred enclosure …

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Polycarp  – Faithful unto Death

Polycarp – Faithful unto Death

David Luckman

‘And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: “The words of the first and the last who died and came to life. I know your tribulation and your poverty… do not fear what you are about to suffer…be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life… the one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death”’ Revelation 2:8–11 (ESV).

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Memorable Loss

Memorable Loss

Karen Martin

Do you know someone living with dementia? Most of us will be able to answer yes to this; more people are being diagnosed each day and it is a disease which affects over 850,000 people.

This means that dementia is not only about the person living with the disease – its impact is far more wide–reaching. Memorable Loss is a story of friendship, and how an Alzheimer diagnosis challenged, changed and deepened my friendship with Kathleen.

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When Mother’s Day is Hard

When Mother’s Day is Hard

Dayspring MacLeod

I can still remember how much I dreaded Mother’s Day.

I remember what it felt like to ‘mute’ friends on social media when they shared a few too many pregnancy–update photos.

There were too many bedrooms in our new house. There were too many needles involved in the prospect of IVF. There were too many years on the clock.

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