Easter Sunday (31AD)

“What matters is God’s love to us, not our love to God. Our love is weak and frail and fallible; it wanes and waxes, comes and goes. Thank God my salvation does not depend on me, but on God’s love to me; not upon my frail grasp of Him, but upon His strong grasp of me!”

Derbyshire photographer Lee Howdle shares the places in the county that matter to him the most – and why dlvr.it/SsG7F7

And yet, here we are, still talking about the apostle Paul 2000 years later, and not about Maximus Gluteus, the leading teacher of rhetoric in Thessalonica, who said Paul's sermons were "Meh."

We had a really encouraging day in Derbyshire over the weekend at the The Rural Project conference!

1/ It's great to set goals in church life, as long as we hang loose to them if the Lord leads otherwise However, it's good to ponder whether the goals we set are quantative or qualitative

x.com/FarhatJavedR Where is the evidence of forced conversions of the Kalash by Christians? How even do Christians get such power in a country where they are a despised minority? BBC Asia BBC #BBCverify This sort of rubbish journalism leads to people getting killed.

Something I wrote for myself Decided to share youtu.be/r63fAKZ_d00?si…

So let's cry out to God for Haiti: bbc.co.uk/news/world-lat…

William Wilberforce and the abolition of salvery by Ian Shaw evangelicalmagazine.com/article/willia…

Charles Spurgeon was converted by a poor preacher in a congregation of fifteen. He'd later evangelise thousands. Pray for our smaller churches. Who knows who might be sitting in the pews.

After experimentation, we can confirm that the new ChatGPT-4o cannot transcribe printed or handwritten ancient Hebrew accurately. It fails at the most basic level. The same with ancient Syriac.

Congregation of twelve? Don't despair. I know a rather good pastor who had only twelve disciples too.

The False Middle England Gospel: • Get good grades, land a safe job. • Marry well, settle in a nice village. • Raise nice kids in nice schools. • Teach them to do the same. All while quietly wondering, "Is this all there is?"

If you include the numerous islands, it increases to an astonishing 10,250 miles (16,500 km). (2/2)

Nothing worse than a non-Scot saying "och aye the noo" when they find out your Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙈

On This Day in 1881: Scientist Alexander Fleming was born near Darvel in Ayrshire. Fleming is famous for discovering and naming the world's first antibiotic. Penicillin has saved, and is still saving, millions of people all around the world.