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Spirit Filled
"The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that's who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him." John 14v21I was st…
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Dont be too good...
Claire and I are reading through Ecclesiaties at the moment and last night we came across a verse that made us both laugh out loud."Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise--why destroy yourself?"…
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Do not fear...
Occasionally when I am reading through something it seems as if God shouts out loud at me and speaks a word that is so appropriate and so relevant that I am bowled over by it. Over the last few weeks …
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Augustine Longing
"I longed for honours, gains, marriage; and You mocked me. In these desires I underwent the most bitter hardships, You being the more gracious the less You allowed anything which was not You to grow s…
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Old Hymn
As some of you will know I have become a great fan of Red Mountain Music in the last year or so. They have done the excellent thing of setting some of the old hymns to new music and I have to say I ju…
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loving the sound of our own voice...
"Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf." Job 36v2When Elihu arrives on the scene at the end of Job it feels to me like such a mixed up thing. He s…
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Silent Help
"And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great" Job 2:13I'm sure it's been said before but it struck m…
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Job
Job 2:10 … Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?There is a paradox in this verse; we know that God is good and he loves to give good gifts to his children and yet we also know…
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Martin Luther
"Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart." Martin Luther It is difficult to pray isn't it? I often think that I should be much better at it …
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Augustine - A Brief Intro
I was a bit over ambitious at the beginning of the year. I had been reading various things from Aurelius Augustinus of Hippo and I was surprised at how much I connected with what he had to say. I gues…
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