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Philippians 2:12-26 Humility

The threat of AI. Depersonalisation in the technological age. If there is a defining characteristic of the contemporary socio-cultural epoch, it is very likely to reside in the obsession of the western world with the power of the ‘digital revolution’ possesses to transform and control the world. Our modern western world demonstrates an over-reliance reliance upon computechnology and its various modes of communication (eg. mobile phones, video games, internet transaction, etc). This has become ever more embedded, and taken for granted, and thus socially ubiquitous, without reflection on its consequences. Does our commitment to computer-based learning serve to unwittingly devalue the qualitative experience of people in education by increasingly substituting face to face interchanges with mechanically informational transmissions characterized primarily by the processing of data? Is it not worth considering that the more time we encourage schoolchildren to spend in the isolated context ...
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Preaching by Frank Boreham

Great preaching has three distinct values.It has entertainment value; it has educational value; and it has evangelistic value. I need  not say that the first and the second are of value only so far as they  lead to the third; yet, since they may so easily lead to the third, they  have an inherent value of their own. When I affirm that great preaching must have entertainment  value, I do not, of course, mean that it must be amusing. Humour  has its place in preaching as in everything else, yet there is no more  pitiful spectacle under heaven than a preacher trying to be funny. Comedy is not the only kind of entertainment. For one actor or  actress who has achieved fame as a comedian, a dozen have covered  themselves with glory as interpreters of romance, adventure, or even  tragedy. Nobody who has witnessed a performance of the Medea of Euripides, of Shakespeare...
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Easter Eyes. Looking to Jesus

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F W Boreham on The Eyes of Easter  On Good Friday F W Boreham looks with Easter eyes with illustrations from Charles Spurgeon and Francis of Assisi. GEOFF POUND APR 3   READ IN APP   The cross in San Damiano's chapel in Assisi On Good Friday we turn to Calvary with Easter Eyes. Bunyan tells us how it is done. When Christian came to the Cross and was welcomed by the Three Shining Ones, 'he looked – and looked – and looked again!' Three looks; but three different looks! The first was the look  Positive ; the second was the look  Comparative ; the third was the look  Superlative . I The Churches of the world have been celebrating the centenary of the conversion of C.H. Spurgeon. It was a snowy Sunday in the middle of last century. As the caretaker fought his way through the storm from his cottage to the chapel in Artillery Street, Colchester (which, to my delight, I myself had the privilege of visiting a few years back), he wondered whether, on such a wild and...
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