Tag: faith
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Reflecting on the words
Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—and all the brothers and sisters with me, To the churches in Galatia: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our…
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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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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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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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All that we need
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8) Christianity didn’t make sense. I remember standing in front of a church pastor with my fist gripped in my pocket, wanting to smash his face. He was sitting in a chair, smiling at…
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Jesus is with you every day of your life!
“I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” It is so easy to read these words from Matthew 28:20 and overlook what Jesus is saying. But when you hit the brake and really take time to meditate on it, these words are truly life changing! Jesus is literally saying that He…
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What Is ‘Life’ After All?
“This is no life. No life at all.” The words were muttered in agony from a skeletal old man, propped up on white pillows in a hospital bed with a blanket half-wrapped around his thin legs. He had frazzled, balding hair with circular glasses. His body was arched to the side and his striped pajama…
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Absent From The Body
I ‘We’ve seen many marvellous things in this life but the eye has not seen, the ear has not heard what heaven is going to be like. Heaven is going to be a wonderful place. When we die, we are present with the Lord straightaway; absent from the body.’ [John Price] _On Friday, I took…
