Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me.
~ 1 Corinthians 15:10

Oh 2020 ... We've had better, been better.

Still, we press on... afflicted perhaps,
perplexed but still not crushed, despairing or forsaken.
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The night is dark but I am not forsaken ( Read more... )

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I. Overviewing Exodus
1. Egypt - the power of God (1:1 - 15:21)
Enslaved as servants

* Prelude: suffering in Egypt (1:1 - 7:7)
* Plagues: signs against Egypt (7:8 - 11:10)
* Passover: salvation in Egypt (12:1 - 13:16)
* Passage: safe from Egypt (13:17 - 15:21)

Ch. 15: Song of passage/salvation
PAST : FUTURE
of journey & delivery

2. Wilderness ( Read more... )

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1 Samuel pivots around a decision God's people take:
- having lived through the ages of judges,the Israelites now desire to have a king over them.
- a complicated issue: 1) the judges have failed them

2) wanting to be like the other nations - effectively turning their back on God

Samuel, the prophet, rails against them - this is a really bad ( Read more... )

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v.17  May the favour of the Lord our God rest on us;
          establish the work of our hands for us -
    yes, establish the work of our hands.

Work, workmanship . . .

You Are - "The Epic Poem That Is You"*

... That our works would echo in eterntity.

* No, there is nothing boring about you and there is nothing boring about what God has ( Read more... )

4 years
72 applications
22 interviews
2 continents
10 employers
6 missed weddings

.... finally, now: the longest contract I've ever had!

Excited, happy & grateful. ღ


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I read this article from the Stylist back in May and have had it in waiting to be scanned & uploaded since then. It came just a week or so after Ps&Gs had been talking & thinking on the very same theme. Given that it comes from a secular fashion magazine of sorts, the level of openness & understanding  within the journalism surprised me. Guess ' ( Read more... )

1 Pet 2:12:
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
Eph 4:29:
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who ( Read more... )

Ps&Gs new sermon series is based around Jesus' teaching on the Sermon on the Mount. Dave opened this morning on the subject of Money and damn, was it both relevant & topical to the world & place where we're in right now. In the light of Iona's impending redundancy and things seeming pretty unstable at my workplace, life in our household is rocky ( Read more... )