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Archive: December 2005

The Middle WayEditorial

Issue published December 2005 Author John Buckeridge

Money triggers tough choices.

Ministry to spiritual searchersFeature

Issue published December 2005 Author Emma John

Some churches and Christian groups are offering prayer and Christian healing to spiritual searchers at New Age festivals, psychic fairs and music festivals like Glastonbury. What happens when we go ‘behind enemy lines’? The answer is encouraging and may surprise you, as Emma John discovered.

Rediscovering Christmas traditionsFeature

Issue published December 2005 Author Peter Bertolero

Tired of people bashing Christmas traditions? Peter Bertolero encourages us to reclaim the rich meaning behind the symbols of the season.

Christ's radiant ChurchReview

Issue published December 2005 Author John Hosier

The church is the very epicentre of God's focus and attention... the magnificent bride ... the redeemed community of the King.’

Healing & Suffering (Biblical and Pastoral Reflections)Review

Issue published December 2005 Author Keith Warrington

I write as someone who has been healed by the Lord but who has concerns over some of the teaching that appears to be part of the church today.

The Gospel-Driven ChurchReview

Issue published December 2005 Author Ian Stackhouse

'Fads rule OK!’ in the UK charismatic church says Ian Stackhouse - and true qualitative revival will only come when we recover the historic sacraments.

The Jesus Creed: Loving God, loving othersReview

Issue published December 2005 Author Scott McKnight

It won the Christianity Today award 2005, but it is hard to see why.

Why I still believeReview

Issue published December 2005 Author Joe Boot

If you are a Christian tourist with a wandering theological mind then Boot will keep you marching confidently along the path of a faith that is tenable, historical and reasonable.

Jail BreakReview

Issue published December 2005 Artist Roger Jones

An otherworldly vision, a demonised slave girl and an earthquake…sounds like a Stephen King novel. It’s actually the apostle Paul’s visit to Philippi.

Live to worshipReview

Issue published December 2005 Artist Various Artists

'Live to Worship’, says the blurb, ‘draws on the life-blood currently coursing through the veins of churches from both sides of the Atlantic as well as both hemispheres’.

PurifiedReview

Issue published December 2005 Artist CeCe Winans

Two years on from CeCe’s previous solo recording, the low-key and at times soporific worship album ‘Throne Room’, she has made what is a contender for Gospel album of the year.

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