December 2012
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August 2012
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July 2012
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FRESH.
Exodus 3:5-6
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
ISN’T IT AMAZING that now we can approach God without fear? That we can come just as we...
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Right from the beginning in the Bible, you see great joy and great sorrow.
There’s creation; an explosion of life, beauty, colour, excitement and just EVERYTHING (literally). And God says that it’s all good! There’s nothing wrong. Literal paradise.
But then even the third chapter in, we see the beginning on sin. In chapter 4:7, God warns Cain that sin is ‘crouching at...
“We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally...”
– “The Screwtape Letters” C.S. Lewis (via annalbain)
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly...”
– C.S Lewis (via flyingkites2)
I don't think I can ever quite get over....
just how amazing grace is. It’s indescribably awesome - I think it’s something I will never fully understand all at once how good God has been to me through grace.
I’ve been reading a bit of Romans recently and this verse:
‘Where then is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the ‘law’ that requires...
Stop filling your emptiness with things that...
“Seems that all my bridges have been burned, but you say that’s exactly how...”
– Mumford and sons
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Forgiveness is tricky
Today I was reading Philip Yancey’s ‘What’s so amazing about grace?’
He talks about how wonderful and how vast God’s grace is. He loved us even though we wronged him terribly so he found a way that there would be justice for what we’d done wrong, whilst still loving us in (what Mr Yancey describes as) an ATROCIOUS way. Our God’s love is scandalous, it...
“Christian,
Following Jesus doesn’t mean you have to be perfect & know it...”
– Mark Muldez (via markmuldez)
June 2012
14 posts
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Luke 15
11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that...
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Taste and see that God is good
God is good, but you’ve got to spend time with him to remember that. You might start to question him and to think you don’t need him. You might forget how much he loves you and think that chasing after money, sex, power is better. You might think that he doesn’t want to have you and start to fear an angry, power-crazed god.
You have to taste and see that he is good. In Psalm 34...
May 2012
42 posts
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Chapter thirteen of Isaiah demonstrates just how powerful God is:
12 I will make people scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
As people we always put ourselves fairly near the top of the chain - there are...
What Does Jesus Do With Sin?
agentlewarrior:
By Jared Wilson:
“The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!’” – John 1:29
John the Baptist commands a beholding of the sin-taking-away Lamb. What do we see in this beholding? How exactly does Jesus take away our sin?
Here are 6 things Jesus does with sin:
1. He Condemns It.
Jesus puts a curse on sin....
Then. Straight after chapter eleven of Isaiah, there’s a song of praise:
Songs of Praise
12 In that day you will say:
“I will praise you, Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. 2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense[a]; he has become my...
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I love the juxtaposition of Isaiah ten and eleven! In ten we’ve seen a lot of destruction and death, and then comes eleven…
1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. 2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge...
