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Grace in the Community: Pressures Christians face: Connected or Community
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Grace in the Community. Monday, 3 August 2015. Pressures Christians face: Connected or Community. 8220;The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy, it is being unwanted, unloved and uncared for… There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love.” Mother Teresa’s words are still true today aren’t they? The battle for Community not just Connectedness. But we also need to recognise the reality of sins impact on our desire for frien...
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Grace in the Community: The election, the poor and the church: stop moaning and get loving
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Grace in the Community. Friday, 15 May 2015. The election, the poor and the church: stop moaning and get loving. I awoke last Friday morning to a shock election result. No-one had seen it coming. Though when you look back now the outcome seems, in some ways, to have been inevitable and obvious. However, I also woke up to a storm of Christians bemoaning the outcome for the poor, marginalise and oppressed in our society. What would they do? How would they survive even more cuts? Michael Ots Evangelism Trust.
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Grace in the Community: Daily Reading: Acts 2v1-13
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Grace in the Community. Sunday, 9 August 2015. Daily Reading: Acts 2v1-13. The disciples are waiting for the coming of the Spirit, waiting to start their mission, waiting to take the good news of Jesus to Jerusalem and beyond. Pentecost is the day they are waiting for. The day the promise is fulfilled. On the day of remembering that God keeps his word, that God is faithful, God faithfully keeps his word again as he puts his Spirit in the hearts of his people. The new, promised, long-awaited age has b...
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Grace in the Community: Bible Reading: Acts 1:12-26
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Grace in the Community. Friday, 7 August 2015. Bible Reading: Acts 1:12-26. How do we read the world? As I open the news website or listen to the radio how do I assimilate and make sense of what I am seeing or hearing? When some event impacts me personally how do I bring the Bible to bear on it whether that is something good or bad? Can they trust their leaders? What about the other disciples? Getting into Gods word. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pure Church by Thabiti Anyabwile. Note*: *The views ...
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Grace in the Community: Daily Bible Reading: Acts 1v12-26
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Grace in the Community. Saturday, 8 August 2015. Daily Bible Reading: Acts 1v12-26. Lots of ink has been spilt not on the last verses of Acts 1, but debating whether the actions recorded there are right or wrong. Should Matthias have been appointed or not? Should they just have waited and appointed Paul? I wonder if that's somewhat missing the point as the bible doesn't seem to raise this as an issue for debate. Labels: daily bible reading. Getting into Gods word. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Grace in the Community: Daily Reading: Acts 1v8
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Grace in the Community. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Daily Reading: Acts 1v8. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.". Sometimes it can be geographic, think for example of the north south divide in the UK. Do we have a heart for the unreached parts of our country in the North? Getting into Gods word. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Pure Church by Thabiti Anyabwile. Five suggestions...
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Grace in the Community: Daily Reading: Acts 1v9-11
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Grace in the Community. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Daily Reading: Acts 1v9-11. After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 'Men of Galilee,' they said, 'why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.'". Division become...
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Grace in the Community: Daily Reading: Acts 1v12-26
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Grace in the Community. Thursday, 6 August 2015. Daily Reading: Acts 1v12-26. For the next few days I'm going to camp out in these verses, just thinking about different things they teach us as a whole. One of the big questions is why is this here? V1-8 focus on Jesus promise and the disciples mission and Jesus ascension, chapter 2 recounts the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost and the joyous conversion of over 3,000. So why is what seems like a passage on internal disciple housekeeping in between? The ch...
