Chapter One: Beginnings In the beginning… Every Christian biography should begin with the words “In the beginning God..” Our Bible begins with these words and, on reflection, it could begin with no others. How else would anything ‘begin’? The gospel
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the people of the God of Abraham ‘Sometimes a light surprises the Christian while he sings’, wrote William Cowper, ‘It is the Lord, Who rises with healing in His wings.’ Sometimes the same light surprises the Christian while he reads;
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The head of an old man’ Guernico. Used by kind permission of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Looking forward to The City A journey of a thousand miles say the Chinese, begins with the first step. The beginning of any venture
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Chapter One: Beginnings Looking forward to The City “A journey of a thousand miles,” say the Chinese, “begins with the first step.” The beginning of any venture is vital; if there are mistakes in the foundation it will be very


