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Richard Walker's Blog: January 2015
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Saturday, 10 January 2015. Martha and the Older Brother - When Good is the Enemy of Great. As Scott was speaking beautifully last week at church about Mary and Martha, and how, in the busyness of life, we must find time to sit at the Master's feet, I found myself thinking that Martha sounds a lot like the older brother from the parable of the prodigal son. It says of her in Luke 10:. Tell her to help me! Here's what it says of the older brother in Luke 15:. And interestin...
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Richard Walker's Blog: November 2014
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Sunday, 30 November 2014. Trending 6: Identity - Sermon Notes. In this final sermon on identity, we aren't looking at the best of what our culture has to offer in helping us to understand ourselves, rather, at a handful of the, sometimes unspoken, assumptions and slogans that fly around in the mainstream of popular culture. Here are a few to get you thinking:. Identity in Popular Culture. I have no essential identity – bodies are accidenta. Whilst we talk a good game abou...
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Richard Walker's Blog: October 2014
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Monday, 13 October 2014. Dreams: A Picture of our Final Awakening. Last week, I awoke in the middle of the night and heard Elli fretting in her sleep, it sounded like she was having a nightmare so I gently called out her name. She awoke and told me that she had, indeed, been having a very distressing dream. We prayed God's redeeming love over the dream and both fell back asleep again until morning. For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Anyth...
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Richard Walker's Blog: 11 Reasons Why Leviticus Overwhelms Us
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Saturday, 25 April 2015. 11 Reasons Why Leviticus Overwhelms Us. There is probably no book of the Bible more ignored than Leviticus. It feels so alien. But its alien nature is probably as much due to our unquestioned assumptions as any essential difficulty. Have a look at the 11 underlined reasons below, some of them are at best half-baked truths, others are plain crazy. How many of them have you unwittingly swallowed over the years? Blood sacrifice is alien to us. We...
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Richard Walker's Blog: May 2015
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Sunday, 3 May 2015. Life for the Body: A Communion Exhortation. Communion - the communal act of sharing bread and wine in the gathered church, is often cast as a memorial. Christ's death, a past event. His body broken (the bread) and his life poured out in death (the wine). Or "Body, serve this person in a way that Jesus would.". Christ is our head, he is our man in Heaven, seated at the right hand of the Father, and all that he, the head, receives now from his Father, he...
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Richard Walker's Blog: A Letter from the People of the Cross to ISIS
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Friday, 24 April 2015. A Letter from the People of the Cross to ISIS. Challenging,the devil is our enemy . We are called to resist him. God is a God of justice, there is a place for fighting the devil on this earth while we wait for Jesus to come back. In fact this life is our only chance to fight him. However if the people of ISIS turn true forgiveness is available. Saturday, April 25, 2015 8:39:00 am. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. More th...
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Richard Walker's Blog: August 2015
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Sunday, 9 August 2015. Sermon Notes on Daniel 3. The book of Daniel is (amongst other things) the story of Daniel and his friends: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who were four Jewish boys taken (albeit by force) under the wing of the Babylonian empire. Rulers often have a god-like status and Nebuchadnezzar, even after acknowledging the power of Daniel's God who interpreted his dream (see Daniel 2. Already got a "get-out-of-jail-free" card from chapter 2. Nebuchadnezzar is...
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Richard Walker's Blog: June 2015
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Sunday, 14 June 2015. Sermon Notes: Who is the Holy Spirit? What does He do? Here are seven foundational things we want to tell you / remind ourselves about the person and work of the Holy Spirit. The list is by no means exhaustive for that would take ages. 1 The Holy Spirit is God - Genesis 1-2, 2 Corinthians 3:18, John 14:23. 2 He loves to glorify the Father and the Son - Matthew 5:16, John 16:14. The Son loves to honour the Father: "He is worthy of all glory! Probably ...
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Richard Walker's Blog: March 2015
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Sunday, 29 March 2015. Six Good Friday Meditations @ RFC Church Offices 12pm-3pm. From 12pm-3pm, we have created a space at the church offices. For those who would like it, to mark Good Friday and marvel together on the greatest sacrifice in history. We will sing songs, pray, share thoughts and ponder silently. There will be six half hour slots finishing with communion. Come and join us for one, two, three or more of them. 12pm - The Glory - John 13:1-11. Disciple of Jesu...
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Richard Walker's Blog: Sermon Notes on Daniel 3
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Rough-n-Ready Ruminations to Go. Sunday, 9 August 2015. Sermon Notes on Daniel 3. The book of Daniel is (amongst other things) the story of Daniel and his friends: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who were four Jewish boys taken (albeit by force) under the wing of the Babylonian empire. Rulers often have a god-like status and Nebuchadnezzar, even after acknowledging the power of Daniel's God who interpreted his dream (see Daniel 2. Already got a "get-out-of-jail-free" card from chapter 2. Nebuchadnezzar is...