As part of our Bble in one year project, we today conclude the book of Leviticus. It is possibly the least favourite book of the Bible for large numbers of Christians with its catalogue of sacrifices, laws, rituals that seem so totally alien to us and somewhat incomprehensible. But Leviticus is a fascinating book, true, […]
I have been spring cleaning. Right now, my office is pristine, well, in relative terms. I have cleared piles of equipment junk, boxes, drawers and the like out of my home office and into my minute hallway awaiting shipment either to the cellar or to the bin. I finally got the old fax machine out
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Truly silver hair is a woman’s crowning glory. # Listening to Hercule Poirot, sipping tea and munching puff puff, while poring over accounts; totally unglamorous but necessary. # Something GOOD is going to happen today. # Woo, yet a fresh day asking to be woven into a beautiful tapestry of unforgettable memories. Let’s do it.
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“In the evening (not knowing how it might please God to dispose of me), to prevent vile panegyric, I wrote as follows: Here lieth the Body of JOHN WESLEY, A BRAND PLUCKED OUT OF THE BURNING: WHO DIED OF A CONSUMPTION IN THE FIFTY-FIRST YEAR OF HIS AGE, NOT LEAVING, AFTER HIS DEBTS ARE PAID,
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Allow me a quick rant on the distressing way Christians jump on the anti foreigner bandwagon. Some positively sound like extreme right wing militants as they lobby for anti immigration legislation. Immigrants it would seem are the great evil, only slightly less menacing than the devil himself. It is ridiculous and thoroughly disheartening. Christians, of
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One of the joys of language is in how you often find encapsulated in a few words fundamental life giving principles. Such is this one. ‘Forget not His benefits’. Referring to God, the psalmist enjoins a lifestyle of constant remembrance, He posits that God has done amazing good to man, proceeds to enumerate some of
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