Ian Greig - Fresh Bread Today

The tests of authentic, personal faith

My dear brothers and sisters, what good is it if someone claims to have faith that demonstrates no good works to prove it? How could this kind of faith save anyone? For example, if a brother or sister in the faith is poorly closed and hungry and you leave them

How to Find God's Love and Live In It

CLEMATIS SEASONSurround me with Your tender mercies so I may live, for Your instructions are my delight. Psalm 119:77 NLT Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law. Romans 13:10 NLT God is love. There’s a verse in the Bible

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Praying for rescue!

How do we stand with Ukrainians and pray for their deliverance? Biblical pointers and a sample biblical prayer.

As Christians we can come in the opposite spirit to love and to bless

As Christians we have spiritual weapons which we can use to bring an 'opposite spirit' to hate and warfare. We have someone that we are empowered to bless and to change...

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Ask in hope

Praying in hope is praying in confidence and three perspectives from the Bible teach us to do this

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How do we pray for people in Ukraine?

It’s the weapon with greater range and penetration than any military power, the spiritual force that can overcome the confusion of a deluded, paranoid dictator

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Believers in Ukraine exercise hope and faith

Christian believers in Ukraine are summoning up all their hope in God — and we are standing with them and agreeing with their prayers, which are having remarkable results.

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Finding harmony by following the composer’s score

God's visible creation can be seen growing in the countryside all around but His less visible work, the body of Christ, is also designed to flourish and grow if it sticks to the Creator's intentions

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Come in the opposite spirit

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1. Changing Our Identity

There are times in life when we are given a new identity. And coming to know and trust God through Jesus involves an important new spiritual identity.

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2. The Bible Message of Freedom

Continuation from 1. Changing Our Identity In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace. Ephesians 1:7 NIV “In Him we have redemption“ is a powerful phrase which needs a bit of unpacking. Those two little words “in

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3. Renewed Minds See the Freedom

Since we are now joined to Christ, we have been given the treasures of redemption by His blood — the total cancellation of our sins — all because of the cascading riches of His grace. Ephesians 1:7 TPT This rendering also makes it clear that this is an act of God

Spiritual prompting guides us in life (1)

What is 'spiritual'?Many of us cruise through life without thinking very much about whether we are spiritual or not. It's become more of a topic recently. A generation ago there was a fashion for following the 'hippy trail' to the Indian subcontinent to experience eastern mysticism. More recently it

Spiritual prompting guides us in life (2)

Awakening the spiritual part of usWe may go through life without much awareness of the spiritual dimension. And then we feel a kind of nudge to do something differently, or talk to someone, and coincidences happen. We are all created by God, who is Spirit, to be spiritual as well

Spiritual prompting guides us in life (3)

Ash tree changing colourOur choice to receive and to give awayWe come to know God by a spiritual transformation of the heart, or human spirit in which our acceptance of Jesus as the Saviour is crucial. He has experienced death so that we can have His life — a spiritual life

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Let's agree, God is good (1)

Sunlight brings out autumn colours on Creden Hill, Herefordshire, UKThe world-changing power of praising God for who He isIt’s easy to find fault, harder to find something to praise. And we are deluded into thinking that if we find fault with something, and get others to agree, we’ll

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Let's agree, God is good (2)

Disappointment argues against. But faith gives praise and thanksgiving for who God isCreden Hill colours in late autumn sunshineDo we live life expressing our disappointment that God has let us down by allowing the difficulties we face? Or do we approach Him in faith, confident in His goodness and good

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Let's agree, God is good (3)

Our call as believers of the royal priesthood is to overcome darkness and deceit with our constant praiseCreden Hill, HerefordshireWe have been thinking about opportunities to give thanks and to praise God for His goodness and past deeds — and the temptation we all get to criticise, to see the bad

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Doing good or trusting — which comes first?

In trying to live strong and live well, most of us would agree that the main thing is... doing good. And doing good to others. A life that is passive, perhaps believing in God's providence, but not doing very much in response to it, seems inadequate. And so it is.

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What is the Lord saying to do?

The Lord gives us 'standing orders' to refer to and live by, but 'orders of the day' mare less prescriptive

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We can all see that God exists (1)

Near the summit of the Sugar Loaf Mountain, Abergavenny, Mon, South Wales• What we can see offers clues to what remains hiddenArmy padres say that there are no atheists when you are under fire. Similarly a climb up Snowdon in N Wales, or nearer where I live, Pen y Fan

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We can all see that God exists (2)

Looking up at the summit of the Sugar Loaf Mountain, S. WalesDistinguishing between heavenly God and earthly church• Let’s go deeper. We’re thinking about how we know God in His hidden qualities, by the visible majesty of His creation which is all around us — signposts to what is

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We can all see that God exists (3)

The Sugar Loaf Mountain — summit in sightBroad brush leads to fine detail• We’re talking about how God has made Himself known. His hand in creation can be seen all around, but that is a starting point. How else is God revealing Himself? For since the creation of the world

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Everything comes with a condition — except this

Here's a promise about unfailing love — but do we qualify, and if so, what is the catch?

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God doesn’t break His promises

God promises rest, or security, to those who are His. But there's a choice to be made: holding on to our way, or letting go to allow God to show His way and His rest.