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Radical healing As with so much in the Bible, the story is more radical than we first think. I’m excited by the simple prayer and miracle leading to gospel preaching, but there is much here that is even more radical. This healed beggar enters the temple. That’s a big deal. The Old Testament law strictly […]
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Pentecost part 2 I love this passage! Peter preaches with power and 3,000 get saved and added to the church! There’s a clear structure, Scriptural backup and punchy application – a great model for preaching. This is that – v.16-21 Jesus is who He said He is and proved it with signs, wonders and the […]
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Pentecost part 1 Pentecost is the word we associate with the coming of the Spirit in Acts 2. Before that, it was the middle annual Jewish feast. It started as a harvest festival to give thanks and celebrate the end of the harvest and grew to be an annual celebration of the giving of the […]
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Power! We are back to the writings of Luke, the doctor, who has carefully set out to write an orderly account from eyewitness testimony of Jesus and His church. It was important for the earliest believers that there were 12 apostles, who would be guardian witnesses of the resurrection, safeguarding the truth of all the […]
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All it takes, Love to serve In my initial days of being in the ministry even though there was passion and fire, something was missing, and I was confused as I didn’t know what was missing. I was enjoying life as I always imagined being busy serving GOD and what I meant was actually serving […]
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Clinging, receiving, believing and life Don’t cling! Mary stuck around to check out the empty tomb further. Having seen two angels, she encounters the risen Lord. As soon as she hears Him say, “Mary,” she recognises it is Jesus. The good shepherd calls his own sheep by name and they follow Him because they know […]
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God has a plan! At first glance today’s reading seems to detail two separate parts of the gospel narrative, with unrelated details. There is a sub-theme though, hidden beneath the retelling of what have to be the greatest moments in human history. It begins in verse 31: “Then the Jews…so that the bodies would not […]
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Delivered to the cross Firstly Jesus was flogged, v.1 – There were three levels of flogging in the Roman Empire: Fustigatio – which was less severe for “light” offences. Flagellatio – a brutal flogging Vereberato – a scourging, where the victim was tied to a post and beaten by several soldiers until they were exhausted. […]
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Are you the King of the Jews? I love the way John writes with such irony. The Jewish leaders won’t enter Pilate’s palace so they don’t get ceremonially unclean for the Passover; and yet they are manipulating the judicial system to kill the one who is the True Passover. If a Jew had to do […]