| The Glory of a New Life |
"Your son is useless; his life will never amount to
anything. He will probably end up sleeping in a ditch."
The head teacher’s words must have broken John Affleck’s mother’s heart as he expelled her son from school for assaulting a member of staff.
John was just 14 years old.
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| Game Set & Match |
‘Don’t retire Tim!’ boomed a voice from behind me as the ‘C’mon Tims’ died down and the Tiger prepared to serve; victory in sight
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| It is Good to Talk |
Our Father in heaven,
May your holy name be honoured;
May your kingdom come,
May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
Give us today the food we need;
Forgive us the wrong we have done,
As we forgive the wrongs that others have
done to us.
Do not bring us to hard testing but deliver us from the Evil One.
(Matthew 6: vs 9-13)
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| Compassion Saves |
Compassion UK is saving the life of a child every hour, every day of the year. In the last 12 months another 10,000 children living in chronic poverty in the developing world have been given the opportunity to hear the Gospel, receive an education, nutrition, health care and other necessary provisions for their development through Compassion sponsorship.
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| New Year - New Job |
 Gareth Squire, 40, started a new job last January. He is Director of the Christian Enquiry Agency (CEA) and Development Manager for the rejesus.co.uk website. 2007 was a busy year for him. So what has he learnt and what are his hopes for 2008?
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| Joseph - Will Any Dream Do? |
By John Mark Hobbins
What dreams do you have? Who is in control of your destiny? And is there any purpose to it all? The contestants for the lead in the West End musical Joseph must have
wondered about some of these questions. The winner must be a very happy
man. But nobody wins all of the time.
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| My Story: Nigel Hadley |
No one is born a Christian. I was an agnostic /atheist. I firmly believed in the lie called evolution. I had always been fascinated by the questions, ‘Why are we here?’ and ‘Where did we come from?
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| From Farming To Cake Making |
 David was born in 1925 the year The Great Gatsby was first published. His father had run a small poultry holding, and the young David enjoyed learning about farming from his father. He found school work totally uninteresting and left grammar school with no qualifications to join the Home Guard at the age of 15.
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| Recipies For Disaster |
Forget Nigella, Rick and Jamie. Start the year with some great new recipes AND do some good for those living in poverty.
More than £17,000 has been raised to date by the sale of Recipes for Disaster, a new cookbook inspired by food from around the world. Instead of a disaster, the book has proved to be an amazing success.
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| Looking for a bargain |
My mother shopped for Christmas presents in January! The January sales offered reduced prices, saving hassle later in the year. ‘Flyers’ through our letterboxes urge us to buy now at bargain prices. Many spend foreign holidays bargain hunting, looking for things they don’t need at half the price they normally would never pay! (Take ‘designer belts’, for example, which last a few weeks and then disintegrate.) And consider ‘Buy one – get one free.’
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| Small-time Boys - Big-time |
Small-town boys This Beautiful Republic (TBR) are making a big-time sound. Based in Toledo, Ohio in the US, their music is a great mix of catchy vocals and intoxicating guitars, with songs that reach the heart of the human experience.
In a special Challenge interview to mark the release of their debut album Even Heroes Need A Parachute, Ben Olin, TBR’s lead singer talks about their music and their faith.
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