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How much are you worth? What price do you put on yourself? How cheaply would you sell yourself to someone?
The questions have a certain silliness about them, because we don’t imagine that we will ever sell ourselves. But in fact we have all done so already. We sell ourselves short all the time.
Compromise
Maybe the word [...]

This is the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the church door at Wittenburg in 1517, and, let it be said, nailed his colours to the mast at the same time!
Every one of those 95 arguments – for that’s what they were – was aimed against the infamous doctrine of “indulgences”, and [...]

This is the day that Hiram Bingham was born in Vermont, USA, in 1789.
He was nearly 20 years of age when Obookiah, a young Hawaiian lad, was found weeping on the steps of Yale College. He had arrived in America on a trading vessel. Led to Christ by a young Christian student, Edwin Dwight, it [...]

I have met some lovely young brides over the years and been delighted by the heart-felt desire of each one to please her husband. The home and its domestic challenges is an area where many brides long to excel and through which they plan to bless their husband.
Yet the domestic role of a bride is [...]

This is the day that Bishop James Hannington was martyred. It was 1885 and the place was Uganda, Africa.
Of all the nations in Africa, Uganda was the most responsive to the gospel in the early missionary days. In the 1870’s mission work began in Uganda with the favour of King Mutesa, who died in 1884. [...]

The financial crash of 2008 is the product of greed, boom and bust cycles and the manipulations by power players. But it is also the product of man’s sin, man’s mammon worship and God’s judgements.
Prophetic insights tell us that God wants to humble people and the nations and to have them rely only on Him, [...]

This is the day that Charles Haddon Spurgeon resigned from the Baptist Union of Great Britain!! It was 1887.
History refers to it as the ‘Downgrade Controversy’, a sorry spectacle of modern theology creeping into the denomination he loved.
He wrote in The Sword and the Trowel his reason for his withdrawal:
“Believers in Christ’s atonement are now [...]

The separation of Church and State is a much-misunderstood concept. It is also a concept that is exploited to insist on removal of religious sentiment from the political arena.
The motivation for such ambition is clear. Political leaders down through history have wanted to displace God and act as the ultimate law, rather than as subjects [...]

This is the day that the “Battle of Milvian Bridge” took place - in AD 312.
It was this historic battle, won by Constantine and his armies, which led to the Christianisation of the Roman Empire. Bear in mind that one uses the word ‘Christianisation’ in its broadest term.
The Milvian Bridge crossed the Tiber River, [...]

I have described in the two earlier posts on this topic that we are living in historic time as we undergo what could be one of the most dramatic crashes of history. Crashes aren’t new, but that doesn’t make them easy to endure.
I have also pointed out that human greed, Mammon worship, sin and the [...]