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How to amaze Jesus!
When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.” Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?” The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and…
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Wings
Days when it’s all I can say… ‘Father God’, Or this, ‘help us Jesus’. Or just ‘Jesus’. Faith mustard pip bobbling in torment, paced By a sinister breeze of unfortunate events. Sucks the life, saps the strength – even so, I head for the clouds. Seek out His shadow, Rest in His glade; finding refuge…
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The road we travel on and the home
God is a God of variety, as my mentor John once said. Consider the powerful dynamic inherent in the creativity throughout the Earth – in fact, throughout the Universe. It says somewhere in the Bible: “When I consider the work of the heavens, the work of your fingers, what is man that you are mindful…
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The noises of a fly: what does freedom look like?
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free” it says in Galatians 5:1. What does that really mean? We all have a sense of what liberty means and the fictitious trope of our western culture seems to uphold this holy grail as needing to successfully hit a series of benchmarks, which bring enlightenment…
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Drowning out the distractions
I’ve stopped reading my Bible recently. Instead, I take time to listen to it. My work as a journalist means that I am constantly looking at words, reading and interpreting content. And I’ve realised that there was a tendency to take a similar approach to my ‘quiet times’ with God. I am finding it really…
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The Cloud
I guess we can all have experiences that are very hard to put into words. As followers of Jesus, we are mindful that the world looks for opportunities to mock us. That’s certainly the apprehension I feel in deciding to write down an event that happened to me at Nicholaston burrows one day. I know…
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Passing The Torch
Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens (Psalm 150:1) _ So I was sitting in my lounge recently listening to various rock worship songs from 20 to 30 years ago. Remembering the Delirious? concerts and the excitement of 24/7 prayer when it began and that sense of revival,…
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Legacy matters
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” (Matthew 16:24) _ It’s important to honour our differences in evangelical, biblical-based denominations. I don’t go to a Salvation Army church but I really respect them. My wife and I are good…
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Don’t look to the thorns, or to the flesh, but look to Jesus
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. (2 Cor 4:16) My dear friend Robb’s earthly body died from skin cancer in 2006. I will never forget him, he was and is a tremendous man of God who was integral and had…
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The Calling Of Samson
I have been thinking about Samson recently. Perhaps it’s because I have become partially blind in one eye and Samson lost both his eyes just before his passing. I’m not aware of any Bible study or sermon about the death of this heroic, difficult man. But I have thought for many years now that there…
