Biblefresh @ Bethlehem

You never know who you are going to meet on a cold Thursday night in December in Belfast. We went to the Bethlehem Village Experience organised by Christ Church, Belfast on Thursday evening. It’s described on the church website… The village of Bethlehem was a not a particularly pleasant place. Already under Roman occupation, the [...]

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Christmas Greetings 2011

We’re so pleased to tell you about progress in the things we asked you to pray about last time. On 1 December Marlene Beattie started working in the office. She is relating to enquirers and developing links with students and young adults. Volunteers Bill Bailie and Lynda Ranson have taken on new roles within the [...]

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An Advent Prayer

For the past four months, God seems to be saying,”Listen to me.” It all started at Bangor Worldwide mission event with Trevor Morrow – see Reacting to the leading of the Holy Spirit in Ireland- and has continued through reading the Bible and talking to people – and sort of reached a climax at the [...]

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Christmas Inspirations from Wycliffe UK

2011, the Biblefresh year, is coming to an end very soon. I  hope that the impact will long continue as people around the UK and Ireland have committed to: read the Bible together and alone; be trained by the wisdom of others; give God’s Word to those without it. experience the Scriptures in new and [...]

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The Best Christmas Ever

Have you had a good Christmas? Has the wonder and significance of the Incarnation been re-newed for you? Perhaps through watching “The Nativity” on BBC television.. perhaps through something that happened in your church this year? Here is a story of something new that happened in some churches in NW Cameroon this Christmas. I post [...]

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Hearing the Christmas Story again… for the first time!

This is one of my favourite Bible translation stories. Read it; enjoy it; thank God for the complete Bible in your language (if you’re reading this, you’re probably an English speaker) – and then give a thought and perhaps pray a prayer for the 2,000+ languages still without the Christmas story. Christmas was coming.  On [...]

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Nativity, Nativity, Natwivity

We have been using an Advent reading scheme produced by Evangelical Alliance and Scripture Union under the Biblefresh logo. A few days ago we read that superb passage from Isaiah 53:1-12 where eight centuries before Jesus was born into the world as a human baby, his crucifixion and death were so graphically foretold. Two things [...]

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