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Beware of being religious!
Matthew 12:9-14 tells the story of Jesus going to the synagogue one Sabbath day. It’s the equivalent of our going to church on a Sunday morning. When Jesus arrives there is a crowd centred around a helpless man. He is helpless because his hand is withered, and that puts him at the bottom of the… Continue reading
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On Walking the Path
Deuteronomy 28 begins with the instruction to be careful to do “all his commandments”. This is a constant theme right through the first 5 books of the Bible. The covenant relationship of Israel with their God is all encompassing – the whole life – this is why it is often described as a ‘walk’. What… Continue reading
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What Pervades?
What do the conversations revolve around in your home? What is it that animates you and yours? What gets your passions roused enough to discuss, debate, express yourself? There’s so much to capture our attention these days and there are so many ways of being captured. For many people it’s the TV that sits in… Continue reading
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You can go your own way, but not with God
And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people,… Continue reading
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Lost your way?
What I like about Jesus’ disciples is their ordinariness – they were just plain people trying to find their way in life, just like the rest of us. And just like the rest of us that way wasn’t clear. The modern age isn’t the only one where people are pulled this way and that with… Continue reading
