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Why Read the Old Testament? |
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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Like most new believers, when I first became a Christian I decided that wanted to read the bible for myself so I asked someone in my church where I should begin. The advice I received surprised me. “Oh” said one person “Don’t worry about the Old Testament just read the New Testament start in Matthew and read through to the end.”
I couldn’t understand why there should be 39 redundant books in the bible. Putting that to one side I set about my task of reading the New Testament. Towards the end of the book of Romans I came across a verse that changed the way confirmed my suspicion that these 39 books were in the bible for a good reason:
Romans 15:4
“For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”  Be first to comment this article |  Add as favourites (17) |  Quote this article on your site | Views: 511
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08
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
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Cain’s not Able
I was working on my notes for next week’s Grace in The Shadows lecture on Cain and Abel and I couldn’t help but think how pertinent Cain’s story is for us today.
It is interesting that when Eve names her first son she chooses to call him “Cain” a name which means “Acquisition”. Cain becomes the father of all who are acquisitive and driven to succeed. It is possible that she felt that in her first born son she had given birth to the child of the promise. However, far from bruising Satan’s head he would break his mother’s heart.
When one reads of the succeeding generations of Cain it is apparent
that he is the father of the industrialists and the those in the arts. And whenever these most precocious of talents are divorced from God they result in pride and arrogance indulgence and a blind ambition to be rich. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (22) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 612 |
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25
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The Wailing Wall (Street) |
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
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I’m sat on the steps of the Federal Hall Memorial Building on Wall Street overlooking The New York Stock Exchange. The home of America’s financial powerhouse is a throng with Japanese tourists taking pictures and snapping up banks.
There is a palpable anxiety on Wall Street. I’m struck by the sheer number of people drawing deep on their cigarettes before pressing the stubs into the wall-mounted ashtrays like so many hopeful prayer requests pushed into the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. But these petitions are offered to the financial titans. The request is simple; restore things to the way they were before the distressed mortgage loans released their toxic fumes into our digital global financial village. Dean’s insightful blog ingeniously entitled “Secs in the City” sheds light on why the Masters of the Universe may be unable to un-answer their prayers. Comments (1) | Add as favourites (53) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 1503 |
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