Tag: new testament
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Foreigners in a world that is not our own
First’s are always beautiful, the first time you drove alone with the freedom to choose your destination, the first time you feel in love and every detail seemed multiplied – no beauty compared, the first time you travelled and lost yourself in the buzz of a place that was not your home. Firsts are what…
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(Colossians 3:1-11) What Life should Look Like
Introduction (Luke 12:13-21) When reading through Luke 12 we drops right into the middle of a busy scene. Jesus has been teaching his disciples, word has spread around the locality that he is about; then a crowd starts to gather because people are attracted to the ministry of Jesus. Within this scene, again we find…
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Finally Alive
Just as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on living in him—in simple faith. JP Phillips ‘Alive’ is a word often in the mind, yet rarely spoken from the mouth. Consider this, you have just had a moment that impels adrenaline through your body, an instant of absolute exhilaration or bliss and it…
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Christ Above All
7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be…
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Hopes Mission: Grace Lived out
A reflection on one of my favourite passages in the bible; Ephesians 2:4-3:13 Introduction Here we are in 2016; a new year and season: With new challenges and opportunities and thankfully the same God. When I think back over the last year on my terms so much has happened that I would not even…
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Atr Irwin 