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Colours of the Rainbow
Yesterday we were reflecting on the fact that there are times in our lives when we feel beaten up by the circumstances of life, and the Lord does not always change those circumstances but walks through them with us. Sometimes, there are times in our life when there are shadows over us that don’t seem […]
The blog today is inspired by the arrival here of a young man who has gone through many things in the past few years that have left him in need of ‘time out’ for rest and recuperation. As we have talked and he has shared his journey with us, we have been reminded again of […]
In that well known story of Jesus with the Samaritan woman at the well, John 7:4-26, Jesus, as He often does, avoids her question and makes a strong statement of His own. The dialogue, after Jesus has asked for a drink, goes thus – Samaritan woman, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan […]
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 […]
One of the areas where there can be a struggle to fully live out our lives from our ‘new man in Christ’ is in the area of our speech – what comes out of our mouths. The Bible makes it clear that words are extremely important and have great power. ‘the tongue has the power […]
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 […]