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Winning the prize that matters
When we talk about winning the prize it’s usually in a sporting or competitive context, in all sports there is an ultimate prize. In football maybe the Premier league or World cup, American football the - Superbowl, Cricket - the Ashes, Tennis - Wimbledon or one of the other grandslams etc. To the most competitive of these professional sportsman already wealthy from their success it’s not about the material rewards of winning, but they pursue, they chase it, they live for their prize. As the people of God we should know that life is the game worth winning, what does it really mean to really win? because when you walk with God winning might be very different. So for those who follow Jesus, who want to live for him and obey him; what is the prize? Eternity, obviously. How many of us wouldn’t mind a well done O good and faithful servant on Judgement day? Sure that’s the ultimate prize but what about now, lets back up a minute is there a prize now here on this Earth? What would that prize look like, what would that be? If you had to list a couple of things what would you say? think about it.
Lets look at a familiar story that I think can teach us some things about winning the prize. Breaking with good Christian tradition 6 points not 3. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll show you angry
In my last blog I started a series on anger and the sense of being dispirited or depressed that can be caused by unresolved anger, as a example I looked at 2 Sam 6-8 and how David had got angry with God and reacted to that anger rather than responded.
Not all anger is wrong the Bible say, “Be angry but do not sin” Eph 4:26. There are something’s we should be angry about; when we hear there are 10,000 child prostitutes in the world we should be angry, to greet such news with a sense of bland passivity is inappropriate, why are we angry at that? Because we care, because we love. God gets angry he’s never flying of the handle and never out of control but his wrath is a sign of his love. Why does God get stirred with us sometimes? Its because he cares about us so much. Read the rest of this entry »
Sticking With It
We had a really good sermon a little while ago with a guest preacher from one of our sister churches, the theme was The grass is greener where you weed it. The message was basically about people who moved from one church to another because they’re not happy with something where they are and in moving don’t get consistent teaching.I would suggest reading 2 Samuel before and whilst reading this blog which will continues over 3 or 4 days and from part two the theology gets pretty hard core.
People walk away from churches for many but in my experience it quite often boils down to the person walking away reacting rather than responding to a situation, whether that is being hurt, offended or just not understanding where the church is going. This reminded me of the struggle David had in 2 Samuel, we can see in the passage how David the giant killer, the one who survived the pit of lions got stuck and angry but not just angry but angry at God 2 Sam 6:9 Read the rest of this entry »
Which Bible Version
Christians have always understood the Bible to be God’s self-revelation to humanity—a type of self-portrait of God. It’s the account of His pursuit of and engagement with His creation. Describing in terms such as “eternally binding” (Lk 16:17) and ”God-breathed” (2 Tim 3:16), the biblical authors recognized the Bible to function as a sort of window or corrective lens through which our spiritual myopia or near sightedness might be corrected. If this is the case, it nearly goes without saying that it ought to be our number one priority to understand and internalise what is contained in such a book. And wherever we’re at on this journey of pursuing the study of God’s Word, it’s essential that we have access to it. Read the rest of this entry »
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