Tag: Christ above all
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The Humility and Hope Born of Praise in Every Season (Psalm 33)
What are we to do when things change? When things that once were are no longer, when normal becomes a memory, and when the things that we have gotten used to become things we miss and long for? It can be hard to know how to respond when the unexpected becomes real before us and…
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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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Hope For the Nations (Genesis 12:1-3)
The memory of perfection is long lost, as the acts of Eden have rippled through the world and human history devastatingly. Eden’s goodness and perfection have no longer been forgotten; it has never been known. Sin has corrupted everything in the world: the ground from which the Lord provides, the animals people have been hunting…
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Identifying Jesus (Mark 3:20-35 )
Introduction The pace of Mark’s account of the life and ministry of Jesus is relentless. There never seems to be a moment to rest or process all that is going on with Jesus and around him. Mark is a man of life detail, so when he records it, it is always worth noting and considering.…
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Living Letters of Grace (2 Cor. 3:1-6)
This passage discusses how the apostle Paul defends his ministry and message to the Corinthian church, emphasizing that their transformed lives serve as his endorsement, not earthly recommendations. He reminds them that their sufficiency comes from God, and they are living witnesses of the Gospel’s transformative power, called to reflect God’s love and grace to…
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What is it All About? (Romans 16:25-27)
What is it all about? It can be hard to tell at this time of year, even when the saviour of the world is embedded in the name of the holiday – Christmas; it can be hard to know what it is all about. Between the chaos of trying to get presents for family and…
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Atr Irwin 