Category: new testament
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3 | The Beautiful Life is a Holy life (1 Peter 1:1-10)
1 Learning To Linger (Introduction) Last week, I spoke with someone preparing for a challenging test: memorising 150 answers, then facing an interview where they’d be asked about any of them at random. A friend who had taken the exam before shared a photo of their hallway—white walls covered with colourful post-it notes, each packed…
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Strangers Chosen and Sent into a Stranger World (1 Peter 1:1-2)
1 Everything Has Changed: Nothing Had Changed (Introduction) Before Christmas, I was able to go over to the Lyric theatre and see a telling of that world-famous work, A Christmas Carol. It was absolutely fantastic, but one of the things I loved about it was how they had set it in Belfast all those years…
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Advent 3 | Micah 5:2-5 | Small Place: Great Promise
In today’s world, so much of our significance comes from size, numbers, and reach. We live in a world where size is significant, and numbers matter. Even though most of us know it means nothing, we are drawn to things that appear substantial because they are bigger. People are naturally drawn to the city because…
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Luke 3:1–18 | Preparing the Way (Advent 25)
Introduction I wonder when the last time you walked our streets, and took time to see the unseen things. The people and places that seem to exist in the shadows of culture and busyness – yet they make up the life of the City, the soul of the City, and if we are honest, the…
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Atr Irwin 