Hello everyone,

Just a quick blog to inform you that I am changing my website, and so will blogging from a different site.
My page now is at http://joshjfox.wordpress.com/ so make sure you take a look and keep subscribed.

My domain www.joshfox.co.uk will point to this new site too.

Of course I do not know who I am sending this to ... not even my mother reads my blogs!
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God Bless
Josh



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Ok so here it is, I said I would do a post going into more detail about the gifts God has given to each gender, focusing around leadership. Over the last year or two I have learnt a heck of a lot about this issue. I think we can often get the biggest revelations when we see a difference between what society says and what scripture says.

Because what society says is that men and women are equal, identical and interchangeable. So we live in a society where women strive to do "mens" jobs, and tha...
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This is another touchy scripture in the Bible most people glance over and try not to pay much attention to.
Some would say that this scripture is irrelevant in our modern culture and that it is to be ignored. Yet I know that the Bible is Gods word and that He says that ALL scripture is useful for teaching.

So there must be some value to this scripture that can give us wisdom in our daily lives, besides us taking it literally!
The scripture under interrogation is 1 Corinthians 11:3-16. It is quit...
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Well the role of women in Church is one of the most hotly debated topics, so I thought I would join the club and give my slant on it.

I'm part of a Church that lets women lead freely, and yet I have been to other Churches where head coverings are still a regular practice and the leadership of women is restricted. There are Churches all throughout this range, from conservative to traditional.

Whilst I do not want to say that any particular Church is wrong in what they do, I would like to shed so...
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KICK-START is a free devotional resource I am offering for everyone!

I wrote this 2 years ago for my old Church, to be used in their Youth Ministry.
We found it to be very effective in helping to disciple young people and new Christians too.

KICK-START is a 28 day devotional guide, built around the core values of our faith, "Who God is" etc
Each day/page  has a lesson to learn about God, with a relevant scripture and application to life, making it very practical for any person starting to disc...

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Acts 2:4 "All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them"

I believe in the power of speaking in tongues, and every other spiritual gift in the Bible. I think they are amazing to experience and are extremely useful in communicating God's message to people.
However saying that, I do feel that speaking in tongues is a little odd! Don't you think?
I mean, to say it is one of the most practiced spiritual gifts, it seems a little random...
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1 Samuel 18v5 "Whatever Saul sent him to do, David did it so successfully that Saul gave him a high rank in the army. This pleased all the people and Saul's officers as well" NIV

In this chapter, there are 3 other verses that are very similar to this one, David being very successful in whatever he did.
The significant thing about this, is that in Hebrew literature, to emphasize something they would repeat it. That's why you often see "Lord, Lord" and "Holy, Holy", because it wants to emphasize ...
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Romans 8v37 "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us"

We hear it all the time, in so many sermons, in the words of encouragement from friends, in books, magazines and inscribed across beautiful portraits, the words "YOU ARE MORE THAN A CONQUEROR"!
And yet whilst all these things give you an instant sense of encouragement and a warm tingly feeling in your heart, you may have once asked yourself... "What the heck does that mean?"

What does being more than a con...
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Its true that your complaint reveals your identity and your purpose. Whatever you feel passionate about or want to rant aout, it is always something God has put there for a purpose.
I suppose my most recent complaint is about how people are never proud of who they are!

I'm forever hearing people playing themselves down and not recognizing the strength within themselves. Its frustrating because I know that they are not fully believing what God says about them, and so therefore they cannot live o...

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Jeremiah 1v16 "I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshipping what their hands have made"

A few months ago I looked into what the difference was between gods and idols in the Old Testament. They are regularly mentioned throughout, because it was Israels greatest downfall. Wherever they screwed up and sinned against God, it was because of their idolatry and worshipping other gods.

In understanding the di...

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