Remembering October 7, and why the church must still stand with Israel
Well, folks, three years have passed since that dark morning of 7 October 2023. I want you to sit with that for a moment. It is not a headline to us. It is a wound that leaves a deep scar. took 251 hostages. And they did not only strike soldiers. They went into homes. They went to a music festival. They took families. They took babies.
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Folks, I want to talk with you plainly tonight about something that is stirring a lot of hearts in Scotland and across the border in England. There has just been a big night at SEC Armadillo in Glasgow, billed as revival. Worship. Prayer for the nation. A message. A ticket on the door. A leadership day the next morning. I was not in that hall. I do not need to have been there to tell you what it was not.
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I want to speak with you openly, just as I would if we were sitting down over a coffee. As you read this, I hope you’ll remember that someone may try to sell you a feeling and call it hope. Please don’t buy it.
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A word after the Flydubai flight that almost fell
Now my friends, let me tell you what happened this morning. Flydubai flight FZ1073 left Dubai for Tel Aviv. There were about 174 people on that plane, including 27 little children. Almost all of them were Israelis. They thought they were just going home.
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Luke 12:24 · A story for older children and teens
I want you to look with me at something Jesus said. It is found in Luke chapter 12, verse 24.
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Netanyahu at the UN, empty chairs, and the God who still keeps covenant
Hi folks, I want us to open the Word and share some scriptures with you and look at this week with honest hearts.
I am a Scotsman living in the United Kingdom. I sat prayfully and watched Benjamin Netanyahu stand before the United Nations. I wasn’t surprised as I watched row after row of delegates get up and walk out. Israel counted seventy-seven countries gone from the hall. Outside, crowds raged against the Jewish people. Inside, empty seats. And the world called it virtue.
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Now look, friends. I knew about this a few days ago. I waited. I let the righteous anger settle before the Lord. Then I wrote. Then I preached. I am writing again because the facts have not changed, and the Word of God has not changed.
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Hair, Vows, and the Heart
Paul at Cenchrea and the women in Corinth
Acts 18:18 and 1 Corinthians 11:6 (NKJV)
Now look at this with me, looking at these verses for you Bible-strong folk; we read Paul stayed a good while in Corinth. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow.
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A Warning from Philippi
Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.
Acts 16:16–18, NKJV
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A simple look at Jeremiah 31:9
Now look at Jeremiah 31:9. I was reading it in the CSB and I came across a word that is not in my usual NKJV. The word is wadis. So I went to the Blue Letter Bible, and I looked at the Hebrew, and I compared a few other translations. What I found is a beautiful picture of God as a Father, leading His people home.
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Now I want us to look at Acts chapter 12. Herod has already killed James. When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he took Peter also. Peter is in prison, chained between two soldiers, with guards at the door. And the church is praying. Prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
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