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The Christian subculture we live in can often produce it’s minor celebrities. Great teachers, authors, and speakers. Leaders of other churches or our own.

While it is good to respect these people, learn from them and appreciate the gifts that God has given them, we must be careful not to put them on a pedestal.

How often do we talk about who’s book we have read, talk we have listened to, who we have met? How often do we talk about Jesus?

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14)

Online sermons from Mike Kendall at St Neots Evangelical Church

SNEC is the church I grew up in. Mike’s preaching is humble, engaging and thoroughly biblical. Well worth a listen.

SNEC Sermon library

One thing that I struggle with on a regular basis is reading the Bible daily and I guess I’m not alone in that struggle. Reading the Bible and praying shouldn’t be something we squeeze in to our days, it should be a priority. Anything that helps people to engage with the Bible regularily has to be a good idea.

There is a new free service developed by Scripture Union called WordLive that is designed to help people to engage with the Bible in a variety of ways. The website offers a daily Bible passage and options to explore it through Bible studies, music, video and podcasts. As well as the website and the podcasts there are RSS feeds, daily emails and a specially formatted version of the site for mobile phones.

The variety of ways to access WordLive makes it flexible appealing to those of us who spend plenty of time on a computer.The service is in it’s infancy (it launched on 1st January 2008) and there is room for improvement in things like the flexibility of the email options, but I am sure that these things will develop as the service matures.

Last weekend in between being ill and photographing a wedding Kate and I visited some friends, Chris and Louise Bland. Louise has recently started a new job working for a Christian charity called Compassion who arrange sponsorship for children around the world.

Compassion is an evangelical organisation that matches sponsors with children in 24 countries who are living in poverty to provide them with education, healthcare, social and emational care, vocational training and spiritual care. They only work with local churches to ensure that every child that is sponsored has a chance to hear and respond to the gospel. Every child is given their own Bible amd has Christian role models.

In explaining what Compassion is their website states:

In all we do we focus on three core values. We are:

• Christ centred
  We put Christ at the centre of all we do. Our desire is to show the love of Christ to those in greatest need.
• Child focused
  We aim to help children develop economically, physically, socially and spiritually. This enables them to become adults who can make an impact on the world around them.
• Church based
  We partner with local churches, and can facilitate local Christians to teach, train and mentor children.

Sponsoring a child costs