The revtwaddle's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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JUnlike many politicians, John wasn't interested in being popular, just in telling the truth.
If Christ loved the isolated and excluded, what does this mean for those who would be his followers?
The writer of Lamentations weeps for his lost homeland... Then finds hope in God's steadfast love.
Faith seems to bring no special privileges or protections to believers, yet they keep believing! It's a miracle and a mystery.
Faith is a living growing experience that flourishes like a tree planted by a river when roots go deep.
Why choose cracked and inefficient man-made lifestyles when God offers life in all its fullness?
When we try to capture truth about God, no matter how clever or considered our language...our formulae, our creeds, and our Confessions of faith, fall short of the indescribable reality that is God.
Sample of the wonderful singing at the Auditoire De Calvin, Geneva, when this wonderful choir supported our two Mission projects, through their special concert. Thanks to all.
A Renaissance man long before the Renaissance, Luke's capacity for loyal friendship is inspirational.
The prophet Habakkuk struggles with the ancient mystery of a good, powerful God, and the enduring reality of evil. we still struggle with it!
There are pivotal moments in our lives that shape our future, and set the agenda of our life.
How did Church dis-unity take us so far from the heartfelt prayer of Christ, that his church might be one?
If the children were to hush their Hosannas, the very stones would shout out to herald the coming of the King!
Our job as Christians is the ministry of reconciliation, following in the steps of Christ, the true Reconciler.
What will the verdict of history be upon our generation, and what challenge does our debt to the church of the past present to today's church?
Sometimes it's hard for people to understand us.. and because we've grown so familiar with the paradoxes of faith, we forget just how 'alternative' the Christian faith is!
We live our life not in the past, not in the future..but in the Now, and that's where we make the important decision that make us who we are... now is the time....
is hope the last refuge of the terminally naive or a fundamental factor in our survival?
Whether it's money,time service or devotion, it is more blessed to give than to receive... isn't it?
Greater love has no man than this,than that a man lays down his life for his friends.. We owe them...and we will remember them!
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We must never forget those people whose faith and faithful service have made our life of faith possible
If we want to be realistic about the human condition, we have to acknowledge the significance of sin.
Hosea's vivid image o God holding his much loved child to his cheek, is intimate and daring, and tells us much about how God feels towards us.
In chapter 65. 17-25 Isaiah speaks of God's new creation... But do we have to wait till then before things are changed?
When we get too cosy with God we risk forgetting what it means that he is our Lord and King.
How a trip to Malawi broadened hearts and minds as to what mission feels like, looks like and can achieve.
People want to be free... But how free can we really be, and is it only the Son who can make us truly free?
What on earth is Jesus doing, seeking the Baptism meant for the losers, the failed and the sinful?
If we wonder what we are worth, in this big, tough world - as far as God is concerned, we are worth it all!
All too easy to spiritualise this stuff...what difference can we actually make? Can provide water where there is none?
And, yes, there can be an inner desert that needs refreshment!