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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-06-02
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See that crook guy
A beautiful verse “Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?” (MSG) To think of the ideals we have at the outset of our journey and the “circuitous route through the wilderness”…
Created almost 2 years ago
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Master of the moment
The bible was not written to conform with western standards of social & political liberty. The slaves of Paul’s day had no choice but to remain under the authority of their masters. The issue was how…
Created over 3 years ago
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When there ARE no answers
Sometimes there ARE no answers. I don’t like that because I live in a deliver-the-solution-right-now age. Give me a problem I will solve it! It is just possible that somewhere in the suffering God is…
Created over 3 years ago
Job 1:1 (ASV), Job 1:2 (ASV), Job 1:3 (ASV), Job 2:2 (ASV), Job 2:3 (ASV), Job 3:1 (ASV), Job 3:2 (ASV), Job 3:3 (ASV), Job 3:3 (ASV), Job 3:4 (ASV), Job 3:5 (ASV), Job 4:1 (ASV), Job 4:2 (ASV), Job 4:4 (ASV), Job 4:5 (ASV), Job 4:6 (ASV), Job 22:1 (ASV), Job 22:2 (ASV), Job 22:3 (ASV), Job 22:4 (ASV), Job 22:5 (ASV), Job 22:6 (ASV), Job 23:3 (ASV), Job 23:4 (ASV), Job 23:5 (ASV), Job 23:6 (ASV), Job 23:7 (ASV), Job 23:8 (ASV), Job 23:9 (ASV), Job 23:10 (ASV), Job 23:11 (ASV), Job 23:12 (ASV)
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The Solutions Game
Job 22:5 KJV “Is not your wickedness great?” Look in a mirror and you see Job’s friends. I see my friend in trouble and go to “sort out” his/her problem with answers and solutions. Why are we so solution…
Created over 3 years ago
Job 1:1 (ASV), Job 1:2 (ASV), Job 1:3 (ASV), Job 1:4 (ASV), Job 2:1 (ASV), Job 2:2 (ASV), Job 2:3 (ASV), Job 3:1 (ASV), Job 3:3 (ASV), Job 3:4 (ASV), Job 3:5 (ASV), Job 4:4 (ASV), Job 4:5 (ASV), Job 22:1 (ASV), Job 22:2 (ASV), Job 22:3 (ASV), Job 22:4 (ASV), Job 22:5 (ASV)
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Now THAT'S a love story !
V10 “not that we loved God, but that he first loved us” KJV. In a world full of love stories John gives the only definition that really works. The love of God arrived “while we were YET SINNERS,”(Rom5)…
Created over 3 years ago
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God of the Ugly Times
V1 “let me never be ashamed”KJV ‘Don’t let me down!’ ‘Take me seriously this time’ (Message) David implores an already competent saviour to take a share in his previous failures. God “cannot look upon…
Created over 3 years ago
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Wrestling with God Psa 31
It is very human to feel distanced from God in times of personal failure or sin. This psalm has a strong context in David’s sin “because of mine iniquity..my bones are consumed”(v10). That the final cry…
Created over 3 years ago
Psalm 31:1 (ASV), Psalm 31:2 (ASV), Psalm 31:3 (ASV), Psalm 31:4 (ASV), Psalm 31:5 (ASV), Psalm 31:6 (ASV), Psalm 31:7 (ASV), Psalm 31:8 (ASV), Psalm 31:9 (ASV), Psalm 31:10 (ASV), Psalm 31:11 (ASV), Psalm 31:12 (ASV), Psalm 31:13 (ASV), Psalm 31:14 (ASV), Psalm 31:15 (ASV), Psalm 31:16 (ASV), Psalm 31:17 (ASV), Psalm 31:18 (ASV), Psalm 31:19 (ASV), Psalm 31:20 (ASV), Psalm 31:21 (ASV), Psalm 31:22 (ASV), Psalm 31:23 (ASV), Psalm 31:24 (ASV)
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Don't wait for the Optimum Conditions
I watch the farmers out here in the dry Outback ploughing and sowing their seed into desperately dry ground. Crazy you say? They have no choice. If they wait for rain, by the time they work the ground…
Created over 3 years ago
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Rom 6:1-7:6 The Power of Identity
Paul in promoting Grace has the argument leveled at him (6:1) that his preaching was risky and would only open the 'floodgates of evil' among christians. The accusation had punch and he spends the next…
Created over 3 years ago
Romans 6:1 (ASV), Romans 6:2 (ASV), Romans 6:3 (ASV), Romans 6:4 (ASV), Romans 6:5 (ASV), Romans 6:6 (ASV), Romans 6:7 (ASV), Romans 6:8 (ASV), Romans 6:9 (ASV), Romans 6:10 (ASV), Romans 6:11 (ASV), Romans 6:12 (ASV), Romans 6:13 (ASV), Romans 6:14 (ASV), Romans 6:15 (ASV), Romans 6:16 (ASV), Romans 6:17 (ASV), Romans 6:18 (ASV), Romans 6:19 (ASV), Romans 6:20 (ASV), Romans 6:21 (ASV), Romans 6:22 (ASV), Romans 6:23 (ASV), Romans 6:6 (ASV), Romans 6:7 (ASV), Romans 6:8 (ASV), Romans 6:9 (ASV), Romans 7:1 (ASV), Romans 7:2 (ASV), Romans 7:3 (ASV), Romans 7:5 (ASV), Romans 7:6 (ASV)
Dan Pogson
- danielpogson
- Fishing Point , Australia
