So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there, remember that your brother has something against you; leave your gift there before the altar and go. First, be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Matthew 5:23-24 (ESVUK) Repairing the broken is not an easy task. Repairing what was […]
Read More OTKC 07: Be ReconciledI was reading a headline that said that a church figure suggested an individual was a “committed Christian”. The context was that the individual was going into a top political position in his country. It was as though the church figure who made the comments wanted to commend this individual and reassure us that because […]
Read More JJ24 #56: The Life Renewed – A People RemindedTo God and to each other in that order. There’s a rightful excitement about being redeemed. However, the matter of being reconciled brings another dimension to the renewed life. There’s a sense in which the redeemed is about what God does for us in paying the price to purchase what belongs to Him. The sense […]
Read More JJ24 #53: The Renewed Life – A People ReconciledThe effort is great to make sure a wedge is placed in relationships. One tool used to drive that wedge is anger. You hurt me – by what you did or by what you said. You hurt me and my reaction to that is to be angry. That anger is sometimes expressed in openly hostile […]
Read More King Jesus Says – Be ReconciledOne of the things that keeps me blogging is the blogging of others. True story. I started blogging because I noticed a friend of mine blogging. Then as I got to know the blogosphere better I came across writers and sites from people around the world. Some faith related, others connected to other interests. Their […]
Read More A Reminder Of The Grace To Forgive And ReconcileWe were seated in a semi circle enjoying the summer breeze in the evening. The conversation got round to what happens when the children grow up and have lifestyles that go against the values with which they were brought up. It was fascinating listening to the various views on what we do when our hearts […]
Read More A Reflection On The Prodigal Son: Bungee JumpingBlessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:9) I love the good news, because among other things it is about bringing things together. The thing about sin is that it brings death and everything leading to death which usually involves deterioration, division, dissolving and the degradation of that which […]
Read More Say What You See: Bridge BuildersGod created a world at peace. Everything about the set-up and framework of the creation order was about harmony. A beautiful interdepedence of species and organisms that got an entire ecological system moving even more gloriously than a brilliant choral and orchestral arrangement. Indeed the music we created was a reflection of the harmony of […]
Read More ReconciliationFor what feels like years, part of the world of television advertising has been dominated by the GoCompare campaign. First you had the singing tenor dude doing his thing in various settings and then the company really latched onto the public sentiment by sending him up as a target figure for the millions who were […]
Read More Go Compare? I Don’t Think SoAt the moment I enjoy my sleeping patterns. In the evening my wife and youngest daughter will retire to bed at a relatively early time and being exhausted by events, I won’t have that much stamina to stay up for that much longer and I’m usually gone before 11pm. Almost like clockwork way before 6am […]
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