http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog Sermons and writings from Rev. Colin Dow Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:18:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As from 23rd December, my blog will be moving home. It's new address will be http://dowboy.wordpress.com/ Please keep coming and commenting   Dowboy http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/12/23/moving-home/ Jeremiah 10:10 Imagine the shock the poor motorists traveling on the A96 near Nairn a few Saturdays ago must have felt. Traffic was being held up because two men were having a fight in the middle of the road. The surprising thing, however, was that one of them was dressed up ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/12/17/the-doctrine-of-god-sc56-ii-the-living-and-true-god/ Deuteronomy 6:1-6 According to a recent study by finance giant MBNA, around 2 million football fans in Britain alone have pre-match rituals. These range from taking the same route to every game, to wearing lucky clothing, to using a lucky toilet before the game starts. Most football fans have their habits. ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/12/17/the-doctrine-of-god-sc56-i-the-only-god/ “Make every home a mission station” – “Make every home a station for advancing the good news of Jesus.” Last week, we looked at the Biblical and Historical justification for making such claims and we saw that God commands and resources us for evangelism from the home. But this week, ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/05/07/home-evangelistic-groups-ii-introduction/ “Make every home a mission station” – such was the statement I recently heard a fellow minister make as he encouraged his congregation to reach out and grow. In the intervening time, I have spent a lot of mental energy thinking through what he meant, working out how that may ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/05/07/evangelistic-home-groups-i-justification/ It has always, and always will be, tempting to look back and to live wishing that the good days would return. So you say, even to yourself if not out loud, “I wish it was like it was in the good old days”. The problem is that the good old ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/04/24/colossians-20-the-early-church-colossians-415-18/ Professor Roy Anderson, James Crosby, Philip Green, David Michels, Professor Roger Williams – all of these people (none of whom I know anything about) were Knighted in the 2006 Birthday Honours List. Perhaps there can be no more prestigious earthly roll of honour than to be named on the Queens ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/04/24/colossians-19-the-roll-of-honour-colossians-47-14/ The great Scottish Preacher, Robert Murray McCheyne once wrote, “my people’s greatest need is my personal holiness”. What the world needs more than anything else from Christians, is that we live holy lives – lives transformed and practically demonstrating the truth of the power of the Gospel. Such a need, ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/04/24/colossians-18-wisdom-and-holiness-2-colossians-45-6/ The other day, as I was sorting through material in my office, I came across a book I forgot I had. It was a copy of E.M. Bounds book, 'Power through Prayer'. I got it on the recommendation of the former minister of the Tron, Eric Alexander, who told a ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/04/24/colossians-17-wisdom-and-holiness-colossians-42-6/ It is official – according to the Economist, the British work longer hours than anyone else in the European Union, with nearly a third of our working population working more than 48 hours per week. If that is true, then that third of people devote nearly 50% of their waking ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2008/04/24/colossians-16workplace-holiness-colossians-322-41/