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1. These men are not drunk as you suppose
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... faith education bamboozles parents and indoctrinates and divides children.   At the end of I found myself thinking that people, even Dawkins don't really reject Jesus, they can't because ...

2. That Syncing Feeling …
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... law.  And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.  If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.  Let us not become conceited, ...

3. He leads Me...
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He  leads me besides still waters… Spiritual directors take note Jesus is a leader not a manager.   Jesus doesn’t manage us (beside still waters) he leads us.   There ...

4. Leadership Matters - Finding Our Voice
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As we continue to reflect on the need for a new kind of elder, we stay with the seminal psalm twenty-three. The imagery of Jesus as The Shepherd is as apt as it is incredibly rich and instructive for those ...

5. Dissonance Breeds DIssidents
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... puffs up what we need is love because love build up and that we get not from studying the words of God written to men (the bible), we get that from abiding in the Word of God living in men(Jesus).  ...

6. Burnout
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...  When I was part of a highly energetic-self-living-for-God Pentecostal community one of the favourite mantras in the church was 'I'd rather burnout than rust out.'  To be burned out for Jesus was ...

7. Growing Gracefully – Questions, Questions
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... writer to the Hebrews that Jesus’ dispensation of grace and truth surpasses and outclasses the Mosaic dispensation of the Law (John 1:17).   Calvin understood that the purpose of Hebrews ...

8. Full of Eastern Promise
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... that the Bible is not the 'word of God' Jesus is the Word of God. The bible are the words of God written to men, whilst self-evidently Jesus is the Word of God living in men. I feel increasingly that the ...

9. Freedom from religion
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... a new nature, viz. that of the risen life of the Lord Jesus Christ.  The purpose of the Law is to reveal sin and convict the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike. Convicting the former ...

10. Is Our Brand of Christianity Really Christian?
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...    To the Pharisees Jesus was a heretic!  It is clear from John’s gospel (e.g. chapter 7) that among the Jews a Rabbi’s teaching derived its authority from the fact of its accordance ...

11. Nicodemus: The Best A Man Can Get
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So I'm just doing some prep for this week's You Tube video for the Jesus that John Knew series and I was reflecting on the story of Nicodemus.  I could help but smile as I thought of him cast as he ...

12. The Chosen --Phew!
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One of the most breathtaking truths for us to accept is that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (2 Cor 5:21). Put simply that means that we are as righteous as God; because we are His ...

13. Striving For The Rest
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... Christians believe in God, but we don't truly believe God, and specifically we don't believe that God has done through his Son Jesus what he says he has done?!?!     Let's take a moment to ...

14. Jesus As Last Adam (DVD)
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Hope you enjoy this talk.  I was recently the guest on Steve McVey's Grace Walk TV's Sunday Preaching speaking on the subject of Last Adam.  Hope you enjoy it. www.fliqz.com/aspx/permalinkblank.aspx ...

15. God's Not Deaf
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... the righteous listen to God . Jesus woos us in prayer taking us deeper into his purposes beyond merely believing IN Him to BELIEVING HIM. In prayer we learn to trust him abandoning all our outcomes to ...

16. Don't Think - Concentrate
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... you, I can't type a word  It's like I'm wearing boxing gloves.      That day when Jesus came to lunch it seemed that poor Martha was plunged into an ocean of self-consciousness ...

17. The Fallow-ship of the Believers
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... lives.    I have been speaking on the narrow gate during our recent meetings so I won’t reprise them again here but draw you again to Jesus words in the same chapter of Matthew’s ...

18. Silencing Satan
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I hope you can see that this is a part of Christian theology which cannot be abandoned.  Jesus lives the sinless life and thus, becomes Head of a new sinless race.  The size of Jesus’ task ...

19. Last Adam - Adam at Last!
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... from his father, Adam, the “living being” [1 Cor. 15:45].  We’ll see the implications of this in a later chapter when we examine the Apostle Paul’s designation for Jesus as ...

20. Becoming An Him-Potent Person (Easter Meditation)
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... the invaluable insights into the life of an apprentice and also the seminal lessons of faith.  Who else but Peter would have called out to Jesus, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you ...