Tag: jesus
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Make hay while the sun shines
We all have dreams of things we’d like to accomplish: places we’d like to go, maybe a book we want to write, or a landscape to paint, or a course we want to take, or well, you get the idea. There could be things that would help someone: work in a charity shop once a…
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Redemption and the Road Ahead
In our modern evangelical, evangelistic vocabulary, the key word is “saved”, to get saved, to be saved. You hear it a lot. It’s like… we were drowning, in a burning house, or being attacked by a bear, and someone came in and rescued us — we were saved, WHEW. Theologically, we were trapped and steeped…
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From Shelter to Home
We sometimes sing a hymn that says: God is “Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home.” That may come as a surprise to someone who has a concept of God as a distant, austere accountant or judge, but it is not uncommon in the Bible. Listen to these Old Testament words picturing…
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You Have Incredible Value – Part 2
In my last blog, “You have incredible value”, I outlined God’s role in our own personal creation, using the verse from Psalm 139 that we were knit together in our mother’s womb. He did not have to knit our physical being because he created reproduction processes into every kind of living being. Instead, God knit…
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You Have Incredible Value
You have unbelievable worth. Why unbelievable? Because most of us do not / cannot believe it. We are Christians. We are afraid of thinking about our value for fear of pride. We quote the scripture that we are “sinners, saved by grace” to be humble. It reminds us that we are “unworthy sinners”. We think…
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Unlikely Saints
I always loved the Gospel of Mark. It is a fast paced, dynamic gospel. The opening chapter uses the word “immediately” nine times, and you get the idea that Jesus burst on the scene, gathering disciples, healing people, speaking and teaching, going places. No “Jesus meek and mild” here: he is a powerful man on…
Molly Deatherage 