We can’t leave this series of blogs (261-264) on our ‘New Life in Christ’ and ‘Living from that New Christ life within’, without taking a look at Eugene Peterson’s thought provoking paraphrase of Romans 8:9-17 in The Message. He writes…… ‘Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them – […]
Hi again, We are back from our break in Lincolnshire and back with WiFi so we will be publishing our blogs again morning by morning. We are praying that as we enter the last third of this year, looking at the power of ‘Thanksgiving’, that the Lord will highlight to us all that is on […]
We have come away on holiday, to a lovely little cottage that we found at the last moment, and for which we are very thankful. We arrived to find that we do not have wi fi so we will not be able to publish any new blogs for a few days. Hopefully a little break […]
In that well known passage in John’s Gospel, Jesus speaks of Himself as the vine and us as the branches, He lets us know that the key to bearing fruit is ‘abiding’ or ‘remaining’ in Him. He says ‘abide in me and I in you’, and ‘he who abides in Me and I in him, […]
God’s plan for us in giving us our ‘new Christ life’ is that we should grow and be changed. ‘But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord the Spirit.’ 2 Corinthians […]
One of the things that we can be most incredulous about, (see yesterday’s blog), is this whole mystery of the new life that I now have in Christ. My salvation is not just about what happens when I die, but the fact that I now already have Christ’s life within. The Apostle Peter puts it […]
Sometimes I feel like the psalmist when he writes, ‘When I consider your heavens and the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is the son of man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?’ Psalm 8:4. Creation […]
Yesterday we were looking at the power that is ours when we ‘reckon ourselves dead to sit but alive to God in Christ Jesus.’ Romans 6:11. It’s the power to live life from the Christ life within, and to ‘walk as He walked’ 1 John 1:6. So here, at the heart of our new life […]
One of the most intriguing exhortations in the bible comes in Paul’s letter to the Romans. ‘reckon (count) yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Paul has been expounding the wonders of grace and then tackles the problem of those who might then say something like, “Well Ok then it doesn’t […]
Yesterday we were considering the power that is released, that comes into our lives, as God speaks. Taking hold of what He says, receiving His words and agreeing with Him, as He reveals Himself to us through those words, can have a mighty effect in our lives; renewing our minds and transforming us to become […]