Behind the high altar of St Peter’s Cathedral in Cologne is what is reputed to be the largest reliquary, or container of religious relics, in the western world, and inside are the supposed remains of the Magi whose story is told in Matthew 2. The story goes that when the remains of the men were…
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I’m preparing to speak at a meeting later this month, and my given topic is, and I quote, “Blowing all out for Jesus”. I take that to refer to a passionate, all consuming zeal for Christ, and am taking as my role model for the subject, Jesus himself, of whom it was said, “Zeal for…
I have long been aware of both Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and Faith Cook, her biographer, but never read anything substantial about the former or anything by the latter. Now I have remedied that and am enormously thankful I have. It is a long time since I have been so drawn into the life of…
“Father, I desire that they also, who you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.” (john 17:24) As we draw towards the end of this amazing prayer, we see a few of the key…
John 17:21 – 23 “…that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be…
John 17:21 – 23 “…that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in…