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Daily experience
When I review the activity of a church & observe that people are not being saved on a daily basis it makes me wonder what is it that is different, what is lacking in that church that was present in the…
Created 4 months ago
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Do everything with love
This clear command "do everything with love" can apply both to our motive for doing things & to the way in which we do things; it can influence & determine both the "what" & the "how" of our actions.…
Created 5 months ago
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Sheep without a shepherd
The street children who are the target "market" of I Care (www.icare.co.za) are "lost without a shepherd"; they have run away from home & school, rejecting parental, societal ("it takes a village to raise…
Created 5 months ago
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Present, past, future
Present: Pay attention, listen carefully; by implication: obey & adhere to. Past: To what do we pay attention, & listen carefully? What must we obey & adhere to? The Gospel we have heard in the past…
Created 5 months ago
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The fulness of God in Christ
The fulness of God is found in Christ: there is no aspect of God which is not found in Jesus; any teaching that more is required for salvation or Christian living than Christ alone implies that God, in…
Created 5 months ago
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David's response is recorded
David's response to the murder of so many innocent priests is recorded in Psalm 52.
Created 7 months ago
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Balaam
Balaam was the Old Testament "prophet for profit", very much along the lines of the false teachers exposed by Peter in this passage.
Created 12 months ago
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Lithmus test of spirituality
Generosity is the litmus test of spirituality.
Created about 1 year ago
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Rolling eyes
When faced with a trying, difficult situation or someone who is impossibly arrogant, it is so easy to roll our eyes and mentally speak imprecations. It is not so easy to rather turn our eyes away from…
Created almost 4 years ago