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Jesus said ‘I have come to heal the broken-hearted.’ The word broken actually means a ‘shattered’ heart. Some of us have had our hearts shattered into many pieces. So how does Jesus heal today. When God calls us into mission, at times a reason comes to the surface as to why we would prefer not […]
Jean Vanier (who founded L’Arche) on winning the Templeton Prize in 2015 talked about fear. He said that our deepest fears colour our lives and prevent us from living. It is my experience from the seminars that I conduct that many of us are just completely unaware of our fears. We have become used to them. […]
Fear of rejection is a constant theme in the seminars I run, but it runs as a thread through stories in the bible. Ishmael cast out by his natural father had seething feelings of rejection. Esau who incidentally married into Ishmael’s family was not the favorite of his natural mother Rebekah. Herod is a descendant of this […]
There appears to be an interesting suggestion emanating from some Christian leaders that confidence is the solution to the mission of the church. I would want to suggest that too high self-confidence gives people a sense of invulnerability. It is almost like Superman Christians. Invulnerability has no part of Christianity. Jesus was a vulnerable baby, he […]
In a survey conducted with over 1000 mature Christians in the UK perfectionism came out as one of the top reasons we don’t invite our friends. They said our churches are too embarrassing, too old fashioned, too modern, etc. We know about the flaws of humanity but that does not stop us comparing ourselves with […]
The man at the pool of Bethseda had been there for 38 years when Jesus came along. The man’s greatest fear was that he wasn’t going to get well, and no one was going to help him. When Jesus found him he asked him a question, ‘do you want to get well?’ The man wanted to give […]
The image of the near-touching hands of God and Adam has become iconic of humanity and has been reproduced in countless imitations and parodies. Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper and Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam are the most replicated religious paintings of all time. Adam’s finger outstretched in reaching and not yet arriving has the idea […]
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