Tag: God
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Identity 2 – God’s identity revealed to us
In the last blog post in this series I looked at identity in society and culture. In this post I want to focus on God’s identity revealed to us. The importance of names Pause to think: In Biblical culture, names (both place names and people names) were very important – you can pick up on…
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Intimacy with God
A visitor to my website recently contacted me to ask “What do you mean when you talk about experiencing intimacy with God? How does it feel being intimate with God / Jesus and is it enough?” I thought these were excellent questions, so here’s my attempt at an answer. I guess our culture often defines…
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How much do we want God?
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.Hebrews 12: 1 – 2a I want…
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The case for Christian humanism
I just watched a video about humanism which I found very interesting, particularly because of the use of words like ‘wonder’, ‘awe’, ‘dignity’, ‘infinitely precious’, ‘miraculous’. There’s lots that I can agree with, even if I don’t hold to the overreach of scientism or the naive optimism that we can all somehow get along fine…
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Loving God
“Jesus replied, ‘“Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” (Matt 22: 37 – 38) What does it mean to love God? Maybe some of us would struggle to answer that question. When I was younger I…
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Allowing our Father to clean up the mess
Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” The other day I saw a little boy running along and he tripped and fell flat on his face. He was covered in mud and gravel with blood all over his knees and snot…
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How long does it take to become a mature Christian?
In today’s culture, we so often want quick fixes and instant results. We’re told that attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. The window of opportunity for catching someone’s attention in a YouTube clip is 5 seconds. We buy on credit because we don’t want to save up. We get impatient if we have to…
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