What A Fellowship: Flaws

Fellowship with the saints and with God is a wonderful thing. The Lord Jesus loves that so much and loves that sweet communion that He’s doing what it takes to present before Himself a Bride who is flawless. Our experience of fellowship is not always perfect, though. There are pictures of beautiful and harmonious fellowship […]

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Who Rules? Clean Sweep

One of the things that is promised is the clean sweep. That last person left a right mess – is the assertion. You cannot trust that last person if they have a mess on their hands. You need someone who will make a clean sweep of things. Versions of that appeal are made, not just […]

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Whose Terms and Conditions?

It’s quite something to recognise the size of the issue of sin. Recognising the loving heavenly Father and knowing we are made in His image and then seeing how we rebel against that with the dire consequences that we see now as well as what it is to come. Seeing that rebellion in the small […]

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Living in Awe of God

Every day I have the opportunity to sin against God. Whether in a major way or something seemingly minor, there’s always that chance to do something I know full well would be displeasing in His sight. For full traansparency, there are times when I take that chance – much to my later chagrin and regret. […]

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Suppress vs Express

We were having a conversation about this child at school. To say he was unruly would be an understatement. It seems like it was his point of duty every day to disrupt. Sometimes verbally, but often physically. It didn’t bother him who he hit or hurt. And despite all of the problems he was bringing […]

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Self Determined for Self Destruction

There’s something profoundly intriguing about how some of us have been conditioned from childhood. The initial years are spent in complete dependence on parents, then as growth takes place with the capacity for explorations and expression, so there is a degree of self-determination. Along with that self-determination there’s a sense in which the parents want […]

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You May Eat …

The LORD God gave him this command: “You may eat from any tree in the garden. But you must not eat from the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil. If you eat fruit from that tree, on that day you will certainly die!” (Genesis 2:16-17) It’s a familiar passage of scripture and yet … […]

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