>> Throwback (Ps&Gs) 3 & 4

Philippians 3 / PM
v.3  links to Galatians

Deconstructs the notion of visual signs
 ‘tickbox confidence’ approach (v.5 - 6)
- the right theological and intellectual tribe & class
-  a righteousness based on the Law

v.8-9, 12:  But do have confidence in Christ
-  Righteousness through faith

v.10 - 14:  Confidence also ( Read more... )

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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2 Cor 2: 14 (NIV)

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession & uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
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- how are these images encouraging?
- how are they challenging?
   [ ego. / vainglorious. ]
- are there any potential dangers
for viewing evangelism in this way?

1. ( Read more... )

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" In him all things hold together. "

A sense of unease hovering around ... due to work,
my sector, the unknown (the UK economy; March 29th...)

Act / Wait ?
Wait / Act ?

' " At least I'm doing something", says psychologist Therese Huston, author of How Women Decide. Though it is uncomfortable to sit with my stress rather than do something, I ( Read more... )

Intro:
 - the last gospel to be written
- unique information
- legal language of the courts

John as historian; theologian
 - interpreting & selecting

" Earlier in John "
- Seven signs -> seven conversations (“I AM...”)
- Responses shift between belief & unbelief.

MESSIAH: Chosen, Promised One
ANOINTED:  Jn. 6:27SON OF GOD: Part of the Trinity ( Read more... )

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Colossians 1  v. 1 - 14
Paul prays & thanks God for the Colossians growing faithWho ( Read more... )

taken during Easter Sunday's sermon: Col 1:15 - 23, The Supremacy of Christ, with a few echoes back to last September,

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
- Paul's words here are not only significant in talking about God incarnate, God in the person of Jesus, they also enact a movement away from the known ( Read more... )

David Wilkinson came to talk at Ps&Gs on this subject, as part of the autumnal "BIG" question sermon series.

(i) Darwin was excited about science & collecting & cataloguing from the natural world;

- Quote from Origin of Species, the words of Francis Bacon:
".. let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or ( 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... )

It's the 1st of August!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
** Must keep breathing .....  Must stay focused .... **

Col 2: 6 - So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing ( Read more... )