Two very important people in my life celebrate their birthday today. Of course I will do the thing of sending them a message and leaving something on their Facebook wall, but it was also worth taking this opportunity to declare my gratitude for both in my life. About Her Majesty I met Her Majesty (her […]
Read More Thanks to Her Majesty and Mr SimmoniteIt’s a matter of trust. Reading through the set of rules listed in Exodus 22, there are a few key themes that emerge. The first is seen in the first 17 verses. Here if a person has been wronged then steps should be taken to compensate. To compensate takes into consideration not just what has been lost […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 22 – These Are The Rules Part 2So that’s the first month of the year done already. I suspect the best intentions of people at the beginning of the year are already being … stretched. That’s understandable, that’s the thing about life getting in the way of our best intentions. As for me, January has been an interesting month. I have the […]
Read More January Review – February PreviewNow these are the rules that you shall set before them. (Exodus 21:1 ESV) How shall we now live? Social arrangements as far as the law are concerned are often taken for granted. Why we do not kill and refer to it being against the law is something that is assumed and hardly questioned. Yet at […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 21 – These Are The Rules Part 1OK so the Exodus Extracts series is taking place on week days and that, but there was something that I was thinking about recently. It was quite the sight to catch the attention of that old shepherd. It’s a light but it’s more than a light. There’s something burning and yet … what on earth […]
Read More BurningI asked a few good friends of mine this question: when was the first prayer in the Bible? The answer is … something I found fascinating to consider. First of all the good friends gave me different answers for very convincing reasons. Secondly, the good friends all were wise to say that it all depends […]
Read More Prayer PerspectivesI am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (Exodus 20:2) [Worth also checking out the first in the Law & Order: Spiritual Intent series.] Dear Lord God: In the light of your love in rescuing me from slavery … I am yours, […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 20 – Love in 10 WordsYou yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 19 – Communal Consecrated For A Divine EncounterMoses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. (Exodus 18:17-18) Sometimes we conduct business our way and develop and entrench a pattern of behaviour to […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 18 – Don’t Do It Alone: Sound AdviceLife is made of decisions and consequences of those decisions. Some of those decisions are really smart ones. Like having Thursdays be called Treat Night and garner the love and adoration of your children forever for ensuring that on one night of the week they get to splurge. That is a smart decision. Good things […]
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