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Active Reconciliation (Matthew 5.25-26)
31 Monday Jan 2022
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26 Wednesday Jan 2022
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Normally, the Advent season begins four Sundays before Christmas. However, this year, we are departing from church tradition and beginning today. For our Advent sermon series, longer this year due to the early start date, we have chosen to focus on the ‘I Am’ sayings of Jesus in the fourth Gospel. Today, we will try to lay the groundwork for those sayings by looking at a passage from the Old Testament – Exodus 3.1-16.
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19 Wednesday Jan 2022
The Gospel of John ends with the words, “There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” We could say that this is hyperbole or exaggeration or bring out all sorts of obscure grammatical terms.
But at the bottom of it all is the statement of someone absolutely besotted by Jesus, someone who had experienced Jesus’ love and who in response grew to love Jesus deeply. For the writer you can see is being pulled in two ways: On the one hand by the desire to tell people about Jesus; on the other hand by the desire to tell it all. You can imagine this writer thinking, “Just one more thing, just one more thing” but then being stopped by the thought, “If I don’t finish this soon, no one will get to hear about my Jesus.”
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17 Monday Jan 2022
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12 Wednesday Jan 2022
This is one of my favourite passages in the whole bible and I was quite thrilled when I was asked to preach from it. With every reading, every study, new light gets thrown on the passage. New meanings emerge, like waves at a beach, each carrying the previous meaning a little further.
Before we proceed let us understand the scene, the geography, for only then will we be in a position to understand the nature of this encounter. John tells us in v. 4 that it was necessary for Jesus to go through Samaria.
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10 Monday Jan 2022
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05 Wednesday Jan 2022
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The saying, “Hindsight is 20/20” provides a good warning. If you wear glasses or are a medical practitioner dealing with the eyes you know that 20/20 is a way of indicating normal – we might even say, perfect – eyesight. Looking back on our salvation history as recorded from Genesis 1.1 to Revelation 22.21, we Christians are often guilty of just such “hindsight”. I say guilty because, as a result of this hindsight, we have often not placed ourselves in such a position that would allow us to experience that history of salvation.
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03 Monday Jan 2022
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