The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord’s favour has […]
Read More JJ25 #29 – Service: Liberty to the CaptivesModern gadgets have their settings. Humanity have their settings as well. Sadly, most of the settings for humanity seem to revolve around being enslaved and addicted to that which highlights and hastens the downfall of humanity. This is why it is so good to know that Jesus looks at those who are oppressed and changes […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Set At LibertyFear is a great way of preventing good. One of its many guises is procrastination. Operating under the motto, why do today what can be put off until tomorrow, it is skilled and accomplished in creating reasons and justification for avoiding what is for our good, for our progress and for the process of peace […]
Read More Set Free From … ProcrastinationJericho was secure. There was no way those strange people who had done a runner from Egypt were going to get into this land. Just no way, because these walls made them secure. What was Rahab? She was just a prostitute. What did she know about things? She might have picked up on the gossip […]
Read More Rahab: A Faith That LiberatesJesus took some of His disciples with Him and told them to pray while He went off to pray. He went away and agonised in prayer. When He returned to check on His friends, He found them sleeping. In fact the account recorded by Luke has a fascinating phrase that they were ‘sleeping for sorrow’. […]
Read More Burdens Are LiftedWhen Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” (Luke 13:12 ESV) The episode in Luke chapter 13 that grips me on this reading is the episode concerning the woman with the bent back (vs 10-17). First, though Jesus was teaching, he wasn’t blind to the […]
Read More A Look at Luke 13 – UntiedFor by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. (Exodus 9:15-16 ESV) […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 09 – Set Up On PurposeThere are some parts of scripture that are not easy to read. What makes them so challenging to read is because they are so rich and heavy with detail. Such is the attention to detail that you cannot just read it as you would a piece of narrative. For example Exodus is exciting for the […]
Read More A Radiant RelationshipGrowing up with a fascination in systems of power and the stories of justice, liberation, control, slavery means some of my hobbies and interests, pastimes and pursuits would not necessarily be part of the mainstream. At this stage of my maturing process I still don’t have a lot of concrete conviction based answers on certain […]
Read More Is There Not A Cause?One of the biggest problems in my life has been to do with condemnation. Well into my late teens and twenties my sense of worth was constantly ebbing and flowing. Sometimes I would feel as though I was loved by Christ and that was all that mattered. Other times I would be very insecure, cut […]
Read More No Condemnation – Not Guilty
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