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Moments of Calm... Lockdown may have not meant solitude but rather a shrinking of a world ... Silence & calm sound like a great idea but it's not always possible. I remember my frustration as a working mum with a very young child when I was told to go on retreat to imitate Jesus' pattern of solitary prayer. I was lucky to get five minutes & often ( Read more... )

Luke’s gospel:
Life does not consist in the abundance of possessions;
“be on your guard” ~ Luke 12 / Matt 6

- 'Jesus knew that money & stuff has a gravitational pull on our hearts.'

|| We never have enough.

'The truth is the soul’s infinite capacity to desire is
 the mirror image of God’s infinite capacity to give.'

What if the real reason we ( Read more... )

.6. Exodus 24: 1 - 18 / TW
5. Acts 28: 7 - 10  / RC
4. 2 Samuel 9:  1 - 13  / JM
3. 1 Kings 17: 7 - 16  / PM

2. Ruth 2 4 - 16  / PM
Ruth & Boaz:
Someone in a position of power supporting someone in a position of weakness.
Ruth as a woman, a foreigner
- Boaz’ question: belonging
(place, family & social standing)

HierarchyCutting / male workers ( Read more... )

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God’s salvation plan
Jesus’ prediction
Peter denies the Cross
- trying to correct what God’s salvation looks like

All sin is based on us trying to improve
  or correct what God has set in place

Peter’s understanding of Jesus as Messiah - named as the Rock but
does not have requisite knowledge of what that actually means / entails

Jesus’ duality ( Read more... )

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Feeling weary in between where you were, where you are, and where you think you are “supposed” to be? I call it the "no man's land" stage. An unoccupied Pilgrim's path of trusting the Lord when you see very little. This is what many run from ( Read more... )

... risen from the tomb ~

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Gen 49:11

He will tether his donkey to a vine,
his colt to the choicest branch;
he will wash his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.

cf: 2 Kings 18:32
Humility, times of peace
... expectations dashed.

Don’t need a regime change
| Need a heart change

He knows what he is doing.

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Isaiah 2: 1-5  || Hebrews 12: 18 - 29
'You have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the Living God...'

Bible: a story, an account of God gathering his people together, to him, on a mountain.
When we come to church,
when we gather together we worship, we come to the mountain.

Heb. 10:25 - Let us not give up meeting together...

- Like being up ( Read more... )

(III) Daniel 9 - 12

Daniel 9 / PM
◘ Daniel's roadmap & God's timing
Daniel: 82 years old (70 years since Darius )
- Decree - Cyrus Cylinder
- Edict - Repatriation, return to Jerusalem

1. Daniel's prayer (v. 20)
 ~ a model prayer in repentance
•  Appeals to God's character (v. 4, 9, 19)
•  To His promises, covenant, past actions, His Name (v. 19 ( Read more... )