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A collection of articles written by the BeaconLight team.

Let's Rethink ... Giving

Sacrificial giving is a normal part of life for disciples of Jesus Christ.

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Lets Rethink ... Gossip

“Give us the gossip, then!”  “Well, have you heard …?”  “No, tell us …!”  Such conversations take people down an unstoppable escalat

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Let’s Rethink … The reality of being a burden

What will you be like in your old age?  Strong to the end, or progressively failing in body or mind?  Happy or sad, loved or ignored?

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Let’s Rethink … Making a will

Did you know that over half of the adult population of the UK dies without having written a valid will?  Does that matter?  Yes!!

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Let’s Rethink … Getting married

Because marriage is based on the promises of two people to each other, it is a covenantal relationship and not a contract.  The stability of the marriage does not depend on any condition excep

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Let’s Rethink … Who owns my possessions?

British culture believes that what we have belongs to us and that nobody has any rights to our possessions.  However, the culture in Bible times was generally very different - what belonged to

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Let’s Rethink … Am I my brother’s keeper?

Has Britain lost its way?  Our culture says, “You have no right to say, do or even pray anything that will involve other people’s space”.  And yet the government, public

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Honest to God

This week I saw two faces
One made me sad, the other glad.
One so sweet and dripping honey
Perfect teeth and smiling roundly.
The other taut in painful agony
Honest struggling with humanity.
Which one made God glad?

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12 Ways to Miss the Point

Maths was never my strong point. But if (as Christian Research says) the church in the UK is in decline, it must be because there are fewer people born again each year than are leaving. Surely this is not good news for evangelicals, for whom the gospel is the ‘stuff of life’.

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