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* Unknown author He’s probably the best-loved evangelist to visit our shores, certainly the most famous. As Billy Graham hands over the leadership of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to his son Franklin, Andy Peck asks how he will be remembered.
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* Unknown author Prime Minister Tony Blair is the most high profile Christian in British politics. With a General Election looming, Hazel Southam interviewed three MPs about their faith and their politics Faith & Politics do mix!
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* Unknown author Some claim healing is available to anyone if you have enough faith. Others suggest healing claims are all hype and no substance. Rob Warner calls us to place our hope in Christ – the charismatic healer who suffered and who calls us to take up our cross and become a disciple
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* Unknown author Julia Fisher tells the unfolding story of how one man had a dream and how another is making it a reality. I had a dream!
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* Unknown author Continuing our Living Churches series, Patrick Forbes visits a small church with a big heart and ‘Chas and Dave style worship location. St Andrews Community Church is in Tilbury, a town of around 11,000 people perched on the Essex coast. The original church was Methodist and built in 1928. When the Germans flew in to bomb the town’s docks, they damaged the church - the current building dates from 1966. There’s a hall and a manse behind, the whole site overlooked by a block of flats. The church is a joint ecumenical project of the Methodist and Baptist churches
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* Unknown author Imagine yourself walking the High Street of a ‘new town ’in the UK. In a blaze of publicity,the town has come into being within the past two decades.Purpose-built for the post-modern age,it has promised the best possible facilities,the best deal for its citizens.Community spaces;welfare provision;social interaction:all needs would be accounted for in a Technicolor lifestyle free of the divisions,decay,inequality and inhumanity of old-style urban settings.The town ’s bold and award-winning architects have since moved on to new projects,and as you wander the High Street you wonder what became of their vision.You find the same shops you have seen in every other town in the country,their brash advertising competing for the same consumer pound.Well-intended community space is abandoned,vandalised or re-scheduled for some more functional purpose.The small and friendly local shops that opened with such optimism when the world was new are long gone, their leases taken over by multi-nationals with more marketing muscle.
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* Unknown author Practical principles on building communication and intimacy within marriage from Janet and Steve Gaukroger
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* Unknown author Arvel Lowe works with pro-footballers at English Division One side Birmingham City. Dan Wooding tells the amazing story of how a physically fit, but spiritually empty man, came to faith
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* Unknown author In the third of his new series Steve Chalke examines people and issues in the news and considers what Jesus might say what might Jesus say to... Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
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* Unknown author Mark Greene takes at the reasons why we have added a new day to the British calendar