Andy Frost
New 'normal', new 'formula'
28 April 2021Acts 16 is one such story as Paul and Silas, imprisoned in Philippi for freeing a young lady from an evil spirit, experience a violent earthquake that shakes the prison’s foundations, causing the prison doors to fly open and everyone’s chains to come loose. Just imagine being there. But, just a few years later, there is a very different story as Paul writes to the Philippians, the same people who had witnessed the miraculous prison-break. This time he is under house arrest and in chains. There…
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Grace: better left unsaid?
4 March 2020It’s normally chaos before we eat dinner. We've battled to get the four of us around the table for dinner, but almost always one of our young kids is complaining about the menu, there's time pressure for one of us to get to an evening meeting, and then there's inevitably a spillage, so we've got juice running its way around the plates and cascading onto the floor. It’s amongst this chaos, that we try to stop. Simply to pray. To say grace. Over the centuries and across the denominational…
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Establishing God’s kingdom in the next generation
26 April 2018"Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:9-13, KJV)." This manner in which Jesus taught us to pray inspires me to make my life count for the purposes of God. It inspires me to play my part in seeing churches grow as people come to faith, to see the different realms of society transformed, and to see the nations more fully reflect God's glory. The word 'kingdom' makes me think big picture—His kingdom here on…
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Sharing Jesus - not an added extra
15 February 2017It has become known as the Eisenhower Matrix after the President’s speech in which he explained "I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent." It seems that most of our churches believe that sharing Jesus is important but have a massive to-do-list of urgent things. These range from planning weekly worship to raising money and from updating the church website to finalising the coffee rota. So evangelism can often…
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