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    Bible Study How do we view God?

    What wrong understandings of God have you encountered? How did that encourage unbiblical behaviour? http://ontoxenos.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/bernards-advice/
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    When people fail

    What do you think? How should we treat others who fail? Why did God treat Abraham the way that he did? What does that say about how we should treat others who fail? http://ontoxenos.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/abraham-and-habitual-sin/
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    Bible Study Give her away

    A good friend of mine was once working as a Personal Assistant to the wife of a major Christian mission organisation that I admire greatly. My friend was very good at her job and enjoyed it. She became very close to her boss. However it was an extremely difficult job. At times the pressure to...
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    Bible Study The image

    Aronofsky’s movie Noah attracted a lot of attention and comment when it first came out. It seems like he initially did a great job getting Christians on side only to disappoint them when the movie came out. There was one thing that he got right, in the biblical picture of the time of Noah, the...
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    Bible Study Isolation

    I have some friends that never let you pay for anything. They never want you to do anything for them because they don’t want to feel ‘in debt’ to them. I find this quite sad. In Gen 4 we read the story of Cain and Abel and how sin uses Cain’s feeling of rejection to strike out in anger at his...
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    Bible Study Rejected?

    I once had a great opportunity. I put in a proposal, prayed hard and waited for the response. I kept praying and praying but there was no response. The opportunity was lost. It was hard not to get frustrated at God! I asked myself, did God reject me? In Gen 4 we read the story of Cain and Abel...
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    Bible Study Multiculturalism?

    In many countries in the West there is a debate about Multiculturalism. Some people see it as a good thing that enriches people’s lives with difference experiences and should be fully embraced. Others feel a sense of fear of losing their culture and their cultural identity. I think this shows...
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    Bible Study Our hope

    I live outside of my home country. Most years now I get at least one trip home. I look forward to going home. I know I will get to see my family. I know that some of the things that I grew up with will be there in the shops, the familiar tastes and smells. Before I go home, they are future...
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    Bible Study Rebuilding the ruins

    I recently saw the movie monument men. It was about saving important cultural icons so that after the war culture could be saved or rebuilt. The theory being that when Hitler knew he had lost he wanted to destroy culture. In the movie some show an initial distrust of the motives of these men...
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    Bible Study Going Forward

    One of my ‘heroes’ when I was a young missionary was Loren Cunningham. He is a man who has travelled to nearly every country in the world and preached the gospel in each of these countries. For me he truly epitomises the idea of taking forward the kingdom of God. When you listen to Loren speak...
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    Bible Study Shamed or famed?

    The other day I drove past a man who was dragging a large cross. The cross was on wheels, but I drive up some big hills almost every day. This man was dragging his cross up and down these hills. My first thought was that this man must be crazy. What sort of God tells people to do such a crazy...
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    Stolen Identity

    The other day as I was driving along, a car came up behind me quickly and started flashing its lights. Where I live this is common for people who expect you to pull aside so that they can continue speeding along at as incredible pace which is well above the speed limit. What they expect is for...
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    Zechariah and Elizabeth

    In 1:6-7 we read two things about Zechariah and Elizabeth. They were ‘righteous before God’, that is they followed the law ‘blamelessly’, Zechariah was a priest who faithful served in the temple and yet they were childless despite being older. However despite their faithful service to God they...
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    In the midst of chaos

    I have two small children. For my house this means lots of chaos. It feels like a never ending battle bringing order to the house. It feels like after 5 minutes of the children being awake or coming home the house is in complete chaos. The Bible starts with a picture of utter chaos. For the...
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    Disappointment with God

    There was an article on the huffington post that I recently read (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/generation-y-unhappy_b_3930620.html). It was about the difference in expectations between Gen Y’s and the Baby boomers. The article gave an equation of Happiness. Happiness = Reality –...
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    Peace on Earth?

    As I was reading and thinking about the Christmas stories, I thought about the phrase, ‘peace on earth’. It makes me think of an old U2 song by that name. The song is a reflection on a bombing in Northern Ireland and how that relates to the idea of ‘Peace on earth’. The song asks, ‘So what’s it...
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    Jesus saves ...

    The other day in church I was listening to yet another altar call. The preacher was telling us that Jesus saves. If we have problems with loneliness then we should come to the front because Jesus saves us from our loneliness. If we have problems with anger that is destroying our families then...
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    Salvation

    Many focus strongly on Pauls iconic phrase salvation by faith, and while this is very true it isn't the whole picture of salvation. Once saved is there any responsibility of a person? I believe so and many on this forum seem to say that many in churches are teaching a cheap grace, or that there...
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    nother noob

    Just someone trying to get to heaven
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