Tag: God
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At The End of Ourselves (Matthew 5:1–12)
Introduction: Who Has the Good Life? (Matthew 5:1–2) Who does not want life to be good? To have some fulfilment of the American dream – whatever that looks like in our context. A nice car in the driveway, a happy family that looks good on the postcard, and a house we can host in and…
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5 | “If Your Presence Does Not Go With Us” | Exodus 33:12–23
It is always a great privilege to go to different parts of the global church and experience all that is normal there but new to us. But the greater privilege is to hear what God is doing and how his people are being faithful in the midst of it. It is one of the highlights…
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Hands To The Plough (Luke 9:75-62)
1. A Journey (Introduction) Movement shapes so much of our lives, even when we don’t notice it. We are always moving, and how we move shapes how we see the world. In the world today, we can travel the same distance but see radically different things: to walk a mile is to have time to…
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Exodus 16 | Who Then Shall Provide for Us?
Faith Forgotten in the Wilderness (Introduction) Archbishop William Temple once said, “When I pray, coincidences happen. When I don’t, they don’t.” It is something so simple that is profound, isn’t it? Have you ever had that sort of experience or realisation? Praying for something and seeing it happen when it seemed unlikely. I don’t mean…
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Who Shall Save Us? (Exodus 1)
Faithfulness Forgotten (Introduction) One of the great ironies of a church building is the plaque that hangs on our walls, often to tell the story of some great effort in war or the local community; yet, as we read of it in the years that have passed, we know very little of the person or…
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