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Day 20
Father, Hallowed be your name … Luke 11:2 Searching through the words of Jesus, I find he did not say very much explicitly about God’s character. No surprise, perhaps! He did say that he and his Father were ‘one’ and tell people that those who had seen him had seen the Father also. So, what…
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Day 18
… but with God all things are possible Matthew 19:26 The more we look, the more unachievable obeying Jesus’ teaching seems to be. Perhaps today’s scripture provides a helpful perspective. And, by way of continuity, we meet another camel. Matthew, Mark and Luke all record this story of a very rich man coming to Jesus,…
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Advent 2020 – Day 16
DETOUR Ponderings on the Virgin Birth Given that the Virgin Birth is pretty much universally affirmed in every creed or other denominational statement of Christian belief, the diversity of views about it is quite amazing. I thought I’d undertake some web-research and quickly found myself in a minefield! At the so-called liberal end some note…
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Lent 2020 – Day 28
Luke 7:18 John’s disciples told him all about these things [the progress of Jesus’s ministry]. Calling two of them, he sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” In this chapter, Luke devotes another 19 verses to John the Baptist and his…
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Lent series?
I’m thinking about doing another series of “thought for the day” blogs through Lent, and wondering if anyone is interested in receiving them. If you are, or even if you are not, it would help me if you would post back a comment or a “like”. Now that I’ve tried this medium and found it…
Thoughts for the Day 