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Not in your control
When you were born you had no choice about it nor anything connected with it. Your parents were not your choice. Your skin colour, the colour of your eyes and hair, what kind of body frame you have have nothing to do with your free will. When you were born and where were not your…
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Our hope is in the next life not this one
Our lives are hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, appears, we also will appear with Him in glory. (Col. 3:3-4) Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens (Beatitude 1: Matt. 5:3) Blessed are those who mourn now for they will be comforted (Beatitude…
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The Self-Effacement of God
It is a curious paradox of the Christian faith that the God we worship is one who simultaneously reveals Himself very clearly to those who are born again and hides in a dark cloud from those who are not. Paul says that God has transferred Christians from a kingdom of darkness to a kingdom of…
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Kneeling to Pray
The recent US NFL controversy brings up that old problem about a Christian’s submission to civil authority. On the one hand Romans 13:1-7 is very clear: “Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God. 2 So anyone who rebels against authority…
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Significance
I was watching a documentary about the Voyager space missions called “The Farthest” last week. For those who don’t know, the Voyager space missions took advantage of a rare planetary alignment to launch two space probes to explore the outer planets of the solar system. The missions started in the ’70’s and both probes are…
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Five types of people: 1. Never Heard
When it comes to entering into eternity it is possible to categorise people into 5 types: Those who never heard the gospel; Those who heard but didn’t understand it; Those who heard, received it and when the going got rough, gave up; Those who heard, received it and got worn down or deceived; Those who…
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The Schoolyard
Jesus said that the people of his time were like children playing a game in the public square: 16 “To what can I compare this generation? It is like children playing a game in the public square. They complain to their friends, 17 ‘We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and…
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I desire mercy, not sacrifice
There is a scene in “The Bible” mini series, reproduced in the film “Son of God“, where Jesus reaches out to Matthew, a tax collector. If you have ever felt rejected by your peers, accused of being a traitor, or just generally outcast then it is not so difficult to identify with Matthew nor to respond…
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Be Attitudes – repost
The eight beatitudes are nearly the first thing Jesus says in the Gospels. They reveal His heart. These are the types of people God has time for: The poor in spirit. People with this attitude are the opposite to the pushy, showy type that is always in your face and who is full of self importance. We…
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The Infinitesimal Drama of the Virgin Birth
Incomprehensibly constrained to the size of a pinhead, the Lord of the Universe marches down through the ages and arrives Immanuel in a young girl’s womb. From the first glorious image of Adam through patriarchs and kings, Matthew parades the central march of God’s history before us and brings us to a place of wonder…
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