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Flawed?

Every person God made is a self, picture a little baby they just love life and love themselves they are enamoured by all the cool stuff going on around them. Something happens in a person’s life and that self is circled with shame. At some point all of us growing up, something happens where we learn whether true or […]

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Two types of Fear on Easter morning

On Easter Morning The Roman Guards insensible on the ground paralysed by fear. The disciples in fear from the Jews are in a locked room are also suffering from fear but the women who find the stone rolled away are energised by fear. There is a fear that incapacitates and there is a fear that […]

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All hail the thorn and the briar

On this Good Friday where we remember that God really did give his Son for us. In this Passion week when we remember that love came down from heaven, we can see the com-passion of God, invite someone to take a closer look at Christ and his church. “Across the will of Nature Leads on […]

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Loving yourself

Jesus said we must love our neighbour as we love ourselves. But we have not often thought about the loving ourselves bit. Psychology has found that there are three types of emotion. The most dominant is the threat focused emotions, such as anger anxiety, disgust. They are all there to help us deal with things that […]

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The Zeitgeist

In the Old and New Testaments we see people of faith who have stood up against the zeitgeist when the zeitgeist had been leading dangerously down the wrong road. That is called the prophetic, the person who stands up and says, look I think we are going down the wrong path here. So today there is […]

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Seeing the whole picture

Merged within the word yirah are two human experiences that are linked in the Hebrew but separated in English. One is fear. But the biblical concept of Yirah has many different meanings. Two definitions are “awe” and ”reverence”, but other meanings still need to be tied in, in order to have a working definition of Yirah, such as ”fear”, ”wonder”, […]

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Lifting the Veil

The Hebrew word yirah mentioned 44 times in the Old Testament means both “to fear” and “to see.” The essential choice of life is to open our eyes to available opportunities, and to fear the consequences of avoiding that reality. “To see or not to see?” – that is the question. The single most important goal in life is […]

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