All We Like Sheep

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during September 2026]

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53 v6 [NKJV]

As a general rule, people do not take kindly to being likened to sheep. However, there are some semblances which help to justify the description. Like sheep, we prefer to move with the crowd, we tend to repeat our mistakes and we often think the grass is greener elsewhere.
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Assists and Expectations

[This reflection by David Makanjuola was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 27/Sep/2026]

My inspiration for this article comes from two members of the HBC congregation. The first one is Dave Prior, whose article last week had a footballing theme. He talked about the football transfer market. I am going to carry on in that vein, but want to talk about ‘assists’.
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News Has Consequences

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during September 2026]

He will not be afraid of evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
Psalm 112 v7 [NKJV]

So much of the content of our daily news bulletins is ‘evil tidings’ or, in contemporary terms, bad news. It is often said that bad news travels faster than good news, an observation that was first expressed in a literary context as long ago as the 16th century.[1] Perhaps the oxymoron of a ‘good gossip’ helps to perpetuate the hypothesis.
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Here We Go

[This reflection by Dave Prior was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 20/Sep/2026]

What’s the first thing that you think of when you see that phrase? If you’re a football fan (which I am), you’ll probably think immediately of Fabrizio Romano, a football journalist, very prominent on social media, who uses that phrase whenever a transfer is about to be completed.
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Against the Wall

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during September 2026]

A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.
Luke 8 v5-8 [NIVUK]

Following the conquest of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586BC the walls of the city had been torn down, effectively leaving the city defenceless and in disgrace. In 444BC Nehemiah was called by God to go to Jerusalem and rebuild its walls.
So who was Nehemiah and what has he to do with the parable of the sower as recorded in Luke chapter 8?
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So Easy To Talk About!

[This reflection by Dennis Ginter was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 13/Sep/2026]

Over the past month or so, things have come up which I’ve never had to face before. Or – more accurately – things that I’ve always avoided facing.
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