Sword & Trowel 2015: Issue 1


CONTENTS Nepal Earthquake


Regeneration and Gospel Persuasion – the Editor


Spurgeon’s Defi nition of a ‘Minimum Christian’


A Musician’s Perspective on CCM – Neil McGovern


Visit to Sri Lanka – Chris Laws


Paradoxes & Seeming Contradictions – Herbert Palmer


The Garden of Eden – the Editor


TABERNACLE SERVICES STREAMED LIVE


Services are streamed live on Sundays at 11.00am and 6.30pm and also Wednesday Bible Studies at 7.30pm. Both audio and video online sermons and whole services from the Metropolitan Tabernacle are available free on the Tabernacle’s website:


www.MetropolitanTabernacle.org Please note that the live webcasts are now also available on iPad/iPhone.


Editor: Dr Peter Masters 3 9 16 17 22 29 35


Published by the Metropolitan Tabernacle Elephant & Castle London SE1 6SD Tel: 020 7735 7076


www.MetropolitanTabernacle.org Email: SwordTrowel@ MetropolitanTabernacle.org


ACCOMPANYING BOOK


God’s Love for Muslims – by Ibrahim Ag Mohamed


Additional News of Overseas Pastors and Translations Throughout


The Tabernacle Bookshop website features the well-known Review List with its guidance for readers in the form of book reviews (many by Dr Masters). The site covers the Bookshop’s entire range. www.TabernacleBookshop.org


See page 14 for details of services and meetings at the Tabernacle.


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