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About Nothing
About nothing, one may think, nothing can be said. It does look like an unlikely subject for a teaching. Plato would disagree; he said "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." Around 1600 Shakespeare [...]
“We Want Another Pentecost”
I learned an essential lesson as a young Christian, and that was not to take my theology from hymns or praise and worship songs, but only from the Bible. For example, in the denomination in which I was brought up, we sang this song written [...]
60 Years of Ministry
30th March 1958 -- 2018 and onwards! The Wades Remember the Journey Much of our early history up to our marriage is portrayed in the photo album online at http://peterwade.com/wades (scroll to the bottom). On the spiritual side Vivien grew up in a non-church [...]
A Reluctant God?
I read on Facebook recently a post from a minister I have personally known for 50 years, who has been told by his physician that he is dying after a four-year battle with disease. I pray that he will recover. In one of 500+ comments [...]
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!
The above title, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!" is taken from a Broadway musical that was popular in the United States in the 1960s and revived in the 1980s. It concluded with the song "What Kind of Fool Am I?". The title [...]
It’s a New Year! Really?
Now that we have celebrated Christmas in all its glory, and have done so religiously as well as commercially, we are immediately face-to-face with what we call the New Year. But is it really the start of the year? The Jewish calendar has a specific [...]
Call His Name Jesus
Joseph, who was engaged to Mary, discovered "before they came together [that] she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly" (Matthew 1:18b-19 ESV). [...]
Jesus and God’s Word
In a recent post I shared the importance of Jesus' statement, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4 [ESV], quoted from Deuteronomy 8:3). The Word of God is the first [...]
Man Shall Not Live by Krispy Kremes® Alone
"Peter, you'd better explain yourself." Well, I can better paraphrase the text as "Man shall not live by Praise and Worship alone." I want to emphasize the truth as applicable to today's expression of the church. In fact, you could replace any object and the truth [...]
Every Believer Needs A Eureka Moment
Ephesians is loaded with truth, and there is just one word that I want to focus on to amplify the title above. But first, let's look at the "address on the envelope." Ephesians was definitely written to Christians: "to the saints who are in Ephesus, [...]