Key Episode Scripture: Genesis chapters 6-9 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. (Genesis 9:14-15 ESVUK) The […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 5: The Clean Slate Initiative: ConsequencesKey Episode Scripture: Genesis chapters 6-9 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the Lord smelt the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 4: The Clean Slate Initiative: ConclusionsKey Episode Scripture: Genesis chapters 6-9 For in seven days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. (Genesis 7:4-5 ESVUK) We’ve considered the context of this […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 3: The Clean Slate Initiative: ConceptsKey Episode Scripture: Genesis chapters 6-9 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 2: The Clean Slate Initiative: ContentKey Episode Scripture: Genesis chapters 6-9 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, “I […]
Read More For 40 Days: Day 1: The Clean Slate Initiative: ContextThe Bible. The most important collection of documents available to humanity is also the most vulnerable to misuse, abuse, and, worse still, neglect. My Dad was upstairs in his room night after night. He wasn’t bothered with television. He couldn’t be bothered with the radio either. Night after night, he could devote his time to […]
Read More JJ 24 #36: A Word about the WordThat word “finally” suggests that you’re on the last part of what you’re saying and it might be worth paying attention. Paul uses it at the start of Philippians 3 only to go on such an impassioned plea to his audience that he ends up saying finally again as he’s genuinely reaching the end of […]
Read More For Reading Out Loud – Philippians 3Have you stopped to consider the nature of life. Not in a momentary way when things seem to be overwhelming or in that brief respite in life’s activities. A proper contemplative consideration of the nature of life. One person had the opportunity to reflect on aspects of life and put together a fascinating insight on […]
Read More For Reading Out Loud – Ecclesiastes 2There’s a lot we can learn from Paul’s letter to Philemon. How to look to bring about reconciliation. How to appeal on behalf of someone. How to address people in a way that honours and respects them. We can talk about love and forgiveness, Paul puts it on the line for a runaway slave who […]
Read More For Reading Out Loud – PhilemonPeople use the word “hallelujah” as a praise in itself. What’s interesting about that is the word is an instruction to praise – an invitation to let loose with what praise is all about. When the psalmist put together what’s referred to as the 34th psalm he gives a masterful display of what it is […]
Read More For Reading Out Loud – Psalm 34
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