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I see no scullery maid! | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. I see no scullery maid! May 4, 2015. The following post is a summary of a message I gave a couple of weeks back from Week 6 of The Story:. Up until now God has spoken to one person at a time, be that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob or Joseph, how would he guide and lead a tribe 1,000,000 people? The promises are starting to be fulfilled, but what happens next? Are we so different? These are the results of a divine perfection colliding with imperfect sinners. Look a...
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Critics | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. During a conversation with a friend, I was challenged to read Christopher Hitchen’s God Is Not Great and Richard Dawkin’s The God Delusion. I will be posting my responses to each chapter of these books as I read them, here are the first ones:. God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens. Chapter 1: A Passionate Plea. Chapter 2: Religion virtue or vice? Chapter 3: You aren’t what you eat. Chapter 4: Caution: Religion can be hazardous to your health. Enter your ...
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Church Fathers | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. Augustine: City of God. After being consumed by Calvin’s Institutes during 2009 I know that classic theology texts are not everyone’s idea of fun. So the question needs to be asked:. Why bother spending so much time and energy reading and writing about a book written 1600 years ago? What possible relevance could it have for our world today. Book 1: A Roman Empire State of Mind. 8211; Are you proud of your home city? What about your capital city or country?
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Six impossible things before breakfast | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. Six impossible things before breakfast. November 12, 2014. 8220;I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.”. 8220;I can’t believe that! 8221; said Alice. 8220;Can’t you? 8221; the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.”. Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t. Believe impossible things.”. When Augustine wrote The City of God he lived among people who believed in almost everything a...
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Ruthless Rehoboam | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. July 17, 2015. This post is a summary of my message on Week 14 of The Story. Today we are looking at the events immediately after the death of Solomon. From now on it will be a steady downward path towards apostasy, spiritual decline, military defeat and eventual exile to a foreign land. This is not a happy story – the glory days stand behind us now. Hope you enjoyed them! Throughout this period in Israel’s history we see God actively and intimately...
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When SAS came to church | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. When SAS came to church. May 26, 2015. I recently did an all-age service at church, for both the adults and kids, from week 10 of The Story. I used 7 words to spell out the message, the kids opened up envelopes and had to figure out what each word was – this is a summary of my message:. One word to summarise Samuel? 8211; learnt from his mother, he was 100% committed to his God. One word for Saul? Open the envelope, break the seal…. Let’s look at Sa...
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57 minutes | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. January 23, 2015. A poem for my 40th birthday (today)…. If a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. Then all these 40 years to you, are just 57 minutes along the way. If my life is seen through your eyes, looking at time as you do. Not even an hour has passed since I was born, since all was new. All these years that seem so long to me are a blink in the divine eye. 21 minutes together with my wife, 15 minutes as a dad so happily.
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Why today is my last day on Facebook | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. Why today is my last day on Facebook. December 5, 2014. Dear FB friends, today will be my last day on Facebook, for three main reasons:. 2 It encourages insecurity, jealousy and envy – have people liked my post? Why did so and so not like it? Why do they get so many likes? Why did they post that? I wish I was doing that…I wish, I wish, I wish, why, why, why. Not healthy! You better “Like” this today, because i. T will be gone after that…. Fill in your det...
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Remember Them | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. December 23, 2014. Wrote this poem yesterday as a message to my friends and family at Christmas time. Little did I realise what was happening in Glasgow and how prophetic it would be. My heart is broken for the families who have been bereaved and are in shock at this terrible accident. I dedicate this small, insignificant poem to them…. Out on the town, on their last shopping dash. Laden with presents, spent all their cash. Good times forgotten, until.
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Wilderness Wandering revisited | faith of our fathers
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Faith of our fathers. Seeking a reasonable faith. April 19, 2015. Our church is going through The Story. We are at week 6 and I was tasked with covering the Wandering chapter for the kids and adults this morning…here is the kids talk. We played the short “Teens” video clip for week 6 first for the whole church. You ask them about it after the service (maybe it wasn’t exactly like this! What are your favourite board games? Monopoly, kids of Carcasson, junior Cluedo? What happens when land on a snake?
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