Tag: Jesus
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have you found what you are looking for?
I have loved U2 for ages, ever since the Joshua Tree album blew me away with its amazing sound and gospel-esque harmonies (check out ‘I still haven’t found what I’m looking for’, for example). I have been fascinated by the Christian influence in their music and in their passion for justice at all levels of…
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joy
I can remember one of my Ministers when I was a teenager joking about Christians who have a SWEG: slimy, wet, evangelical grin. He was commenting on the superficial artificial saccharine smile that we share with one another to convey that we have everything under control and that we love Jesus. I wonder if the…
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Zombie Christians?
Some of you may be wondering if I have lost it with a headline like that (or is it more of a deadline?) Well, this morning I read John 6:41-59 where Jesus got a bit, well, erm, gruesome. He told people that they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Now I have…
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still in secret?
He told me, “No one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit…” He explained Scripture like no-one I have ever heard before. He understood God. He understood me. I thought he was The One. But he can’t be. Look at what they have done to him. He…
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family planning
I wasn’t planning an adoption I already have enough children One has just been torn from my grasp and ripped from my heart Typical of him, though, to be thinking of me Right at the end In the midst of it all I wasn’t planning an adoption but I have just been adopted.
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Water work
Did it tickle? Was the water warm? Was it relaxing, easing away the stress of the day? Were they looking down in embarrassment? Did anyone else wonder whether to say anything? Did anyone else want to stop him? It was so demeaning, so unbecoming, so degrading, so smelly, None of them wanted to do it.…
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Crucify Hymns
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Not really. I mean, I knew it was happening and I did watch from a distance. But it wasn’t like I was wielding a hammer or holding the nails. What’s that? Well, yes I did join in with the crowd but then everybody does don’t they? You…
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the certainty principle
At the moment I am contemplating Sunday evening’s sermon on the first half of Acts 4. One of the things that strikes me as amazing is that when the authorities had the apostles in front of them they did not attempt to argue about or disprove Jesus’ resurrection. It seems they knew that the evidence…