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When Courage Calls

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When Courage Calls Josephine Butler And the radical pursuit of Justice for Women Sarah C Williams I love reading books and enjoy it even more when reading the same book with others. @passionforevangelism are starting the season off with this one When Courage Calls by Sarah C Williams. It is the story of Josephine Butler and to be honest not my usual read but here goes. We are reading the introduction and opening chapters today. So who was Josephine Butler? She led a 16 year campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts. She raised awareness of the plight of destitute women caught in the sex trade and campaigned to establish legal protection for minors against sexual violence. This campaign led to the passing of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885. Josephine Butler was a spiritual power whose influence was not bounded by the narrow span of her own life or by the limits of her country. Her influence goes on and lives and grows. Josephine Butler's love for God and her radical ...
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The Dawn of Redeeming Grace by Sinclair B Ferguson

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  THE DAWN OF REDEEMING GRACE by Sinclair Ferguson Chapter 1 - In the Beginning Matthew's gospel has been described as "The Gospel of the Kingdom." Jesus taught about "the kingdom", how his miracles were signs of its presence and he explained the new and different lifestyle of its members - chapters 4 verse 23 to 6 verse 29. He ends his gospel with an indication of Jesus' kingship "all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me" chapter 28 verse 18 Matthew is about a new genesis. Matthew 19 verse 28 talks about the new world, literally the palingenesia, th e beginning again. Chapter 2 - The Hopes and Fears of All the Years One turn of the page from Malachi to Matthew and we arrive at the  th e New Testament or new covenant. But why start with a family tree? Normally if we make out our own family tree we start with ourselves and work backwards. 400 years have passed and God's people were under Roman rule. There are 3 ways in which Matthe...
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Let Earth Receive Her King by Alistair Begg

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  LET EARTH RECEIVE HER KING by Alistair Begg This book is a walk through from Genesis to Revelation and helps you worship Jesus anew this Advent. It is set out in 24 chapters, 1 for each day during December up to Christmas Day. It is also divided in 5 parts: Part One - Christmas in the Beginning Part Two - Christmas in the Land Part Three - Christmas in the Gospels Part Four - Christmas in the Letters Part Five - Awaiting a new Advent followed by After Christmas (A Cure for the Post-Christmas Blues) Each chapter includes a hymn appropriate for the day as it links in with the meditation. In the Introduction  Alistair tells us ... "It is easy to look at the first Christmas as though God were a December-preparer - as though the story starts on the first page of the New Testament, with an angel suddenly showing up to a girl in Galilee. But the Bible is a two-act drama and to start at the Gospels is to join at the interval." So where did it start? In John's Gospel - not with ...
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