Category: Life Thoughts
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Finding hope in the deep surrounding you
The engulfing waters threatened me,the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.To the roots of the mountains I sank down;the earth beneath barred me in forever.But you, Lord my God,brought my life up from the pit. (from Jonah 2) Are you facing engulfing waters that threaten your life? A cancer diagnosis or some…
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The real ‘Event Horizon’
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. (Revelation 22: 13) NASA the American space agency describes an ‘Event Horizon’ as what makes the heart of a Black Hole be black in Outer Space. That’s a simplistic explanation. Nothing can escape the reach of this phenomenon,…
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Cling to Him!
You shall follow the Lord your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. (Deuteronomy 13:4) It was nearly 30 years ago when I arrived at home one day and listened to an excited series of voice mail messages from my GP surgery…
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Fighting the good fight
I know that I am a Christian, saved from the widespread epidemic of evil because of what Jesus did on the day of his execution, so many years ago. But there are times as I get older that I feel haunted by my past. I look back at the brutish young man I was and…
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Power made perfect in weakness
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. (2 Cor: 12:9) Strong men and women, as wider society sees them, don’t exist in authentic Christian…
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Be strong in the grace
“You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” (2 Timothy 2:1) Worship leader John Mark Pantana has a deep, tangible understanding that God loves him. I find listening to his songs really helpful in my own times with the Lord. It’s a type of music that’s stripped back of…
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Blind man seeing!
“I am the Light of the World” (John 8:12) How do we react when we read these simple but beautiful, and certainly immensely powerful words by Jesus? It’s such a life-enhancing declaration by the Lord but can feel a little abstract and almost lofty in comparison to the ugly turmoil and turbulence we encounter too…
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Catching life, not words
“Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words.” They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in…
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He forgave me
Deep calls to deep in the roar of his waterfallsAll His forgiving waves cascade onto me.Those, myself, walking in darkness, too oftenOf our own making, have seen His great light.And it’s wonderful. And it’s unexpected. And it’s everything. The cross and calvary – we never stray too farFrom that love, which binds us to freedom. When despair…
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Carrying on
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1) A few years ago I took part in a three-day human rights forum at a settlement near the Mediterranean Sea for my work as a journalist. I…