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Three ways of looking at anything
Paul went into the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:2) and there are a number of other indicators in the Scriptures that there are three heavens as of now. The first one is the one we can see, the universe outside this earth that extends to 15 billion light years or so it seems. We don’t…
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What happens when we die?
A young saint’s spirit went home last week and her body died. According to the bible, the body without the spirit is dead….James 2:26. Despite being in contact with her husband during Friday, when I went into the specially convened prayer meeting at Open Arms that night I had no idea what to pray…
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The Abortion Debate
From what I have read, what seems to make Ireland a pro-life country is the legal view that a child’s life is equivalent to a mother’s from the point of conception. This leads to a whole different way of treating difficult pre-natal situations from a country where the legal position is that the child is…
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Notes from a Cardiac Unit
So I went to the doctor with a pulled muscle, got an ECG and ended up in the cardiac unit of Naas Hospital. I have atrial fibrillation which, although a bit unusual at my age, is not particularly life threatening. Thinking back I’ve probably had it for months. They will thin my blood over the next…
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Hidden
The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory (John 1:14). We are creatures variously described in the bible as an earthen vessel (2 Cor. 4:7); a branch (John 15:4), a member of His body (1 Cor. 12:27) but even in those descriptions there is something more than just a…
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The Safeguards of the Christian Faith
Faith is a gift – or so the Bible says in Ephesians 2:8 – and faith is substance and assurance (Hebrews 11:1). So those with faith might not require much else. They believe in Jesus having, like me, that assurance in their hearts where they can hear and feel the Holy Spirit. The other side…
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Using our imagination
I think that one of the biggest problems facing evangelical Christianity in the west is a lack of imagination. Fear seems to be the biggest obstacle. We are afraid to let our minds go in case we get into vain imaginations and get puffed up. So one verse in the Scripture (Colossians 2:18) prevents us…
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The Sea
Many years ago a preacher pointed out the curious statement at the beginning of Revelation 21: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.” I’ve been thinking about that ever since (among other things). Now…
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A way of looking at the descriptions in the book of Revelation
Some people say Revelation is purely symbolic. Some people say it is literal. Personally I consider all of Revelation open to a literal interpretation, i.e. it was literally what events on earth looked like from the vantage point of heaven to a human transported there (i.e. John). John is in eternity looking down at events…
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The consequences of communion
or Paul’s observations on what happened when people didn’t discern the body of Christ during the breaking of bread or Lord’s supper or communion as it is sometimes known (1 Cor. 11:30) can be better understood if we look at the historical understanding of disease at the time and now. Now we understand…
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