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From St Andrew's newsletter:



You don’t need me to tell you that money is tight and family budgets are under immense pressure at the minute – nor that money worries are one of the main causes of stress, depression and relationship breakdowns - we can see it all around us in our friends, our relatives and our work colleagues.

In previous generations Christians have taken a leading role in tackling these issues – and earlier this year, in partnership with Christians Against Poverty (CAP), we picked up the baton here in Leyland.

Are you in the fog?



Isaiah 60:2 -

“See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.”

Could that be true? Christians have got something that everyone else wants? It’s not what people generally think. But is that because they don’t know what we’ve got?


If God feels distant

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It’s a common experience: someone who used to feel close to God no longer does. He seems not to have such an interest in their life. They don’t feel his warmth and comfort like they once did.

There used to be a cheesy Christian slogan that went, “If God feels distant … guess who moved?” Cheesy - but pretty helpful, too. Because it’s worth asking the question as to whether the problem might actually be me. It’s an uncomfortable question to ask. But it’s the point of Isaiah 59, as we saw yesterday.

Why loving God gets good



We spend our lives frustrated. Even when we know God in some sense, it doesn’t all go the way we want. Why do we end up shaking our fist at God, complaining that he hasn’t done it right?



No peace for the wicked


There’s no peace for the wicked!

My Nan used to say that. I bet yours did too. It’s one of those things that only really sounds right in your nan’s voice! But did you know it’s from the bible?

Isaiah 57:21 - “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

And in the bible, it has a very specific meaning.