faith
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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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When I don’t know how to pray
Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer. Daniel 9:3 What was Daniel’s life really like? He was abducted from his homeland as a young man, probably in his early teens. He and his friends were put under the Chief of the Eunuchs – the logical deduction is that as… Continue reading
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Hope in disastrous circumstances
The prophet Jeremiah lived through the greatest disaster that befell the nation of Israel: the final stages of its conquest and exile. There was nothing left to hope in. In the throes of this disaster Jeremiah finds it easier to believe in God’s judgement & wrath than in his mercy & joy in his people.… Continue reading