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Becoming Like Jesus (Matthew 5.14-16)
29 Monday Nov 2021
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24 Wednesday Nov 2021
It’s a scene that sticks in the mind of anyone who has seen the movie. A motley trio attempting to rescue Princess Buttercup who is about to be forced to marry the evil Prince Humperdinck. Wesley, the hero, just been barely resuscitated from a state of being almost dead, Inigo Montoyo, the Spaniard seeking to avenge his father’s murder, and Fezek, the giant aiding them are looking down across the moat toward the castle in which Wesley’s beloved Buttercup is being held prisoner. In this strange group huddle they come up with a plan of action. But we must leave them there for now.
22 Monday Nov 2021
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17 Wednesday Nov 2021
A little over a century before Paul was shipwrecked on the island of Malta, another ship sank in the Mediterranean. This was about 400 miles to the East of Malta, just off the Greek island of Antikythera. The ship, at a depth of about 45 meters, was lost for many centuries. Then in the Spring of 1900, the crew of another ship diving for sponges came across the shipwreck leading to an expedition by the Greek Navy later that year. The expedition unearthed many artefacts. And among them was a curious device, known today as the Antikythera mechanism.
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15 Monday Nov 2021
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10 Wednesday Nov 2021
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Discipline, Esau, Faithfulness, Hebrews, Jesus, Mimesis, Mimetic Theory
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” These words of Jim Elliot have haunted me since the day I first read them. Whether I am explicitly aware of it or not at any given moment, I know that the exhortation implicit in those words is the one by which I attempt – though very often in vain – to measure my life. It is a tall ask. But I think it is the one to which I have been called. Today we continue our series of sermons on the book of Hebrews. Last week we looked at chapter 11 – the faith chapter.
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08 Monday Nov 2021
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03 Wednesday Nov 2021
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“Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct, but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.” So wrote the British author Samuel Johnson. This is because, as G.K. Chesterton wrote, “If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue, it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.” Prosperity clouds our judgment and makes it difficult for us to have a clear picture of who we are and what we are doing with our lives. As Johnson claimed, it is adversity that is the better teacher.
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01 Monday Nov 2021
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