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By Not Known A Google search of the word ‘love’ produces about 1,810,000,000 links. That’s a lot of words. Love inspires many and great words of poetry, literature and song. These many words take our souls soaring and hearts heaving with their lofty abstractions and grand declarations. But, is love just words? Paul gives us yet more words about love in 1…

By Not Known Most religions are tribal and local. This is not our faith. The Scripture teaches that God made all, for, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1). All remains under his Lordship, even if in a state of rebellion, for:the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it(Ps 24:1). Further, all are within the scope of his redemption. All…

By Not Known Christianity is freedom. The truth of the gospel sets us free (Jn 8:32). Free from fear and superstition. Free from the penalty and power of sin. Free from a life enslaved by man’s rules. These precious liberties are all established by the Cross and resurrection of Jesus and his gift of the Spirit. But what is freedom for? It’s often freedom to be…

By Not Known Mid-first century Corinth was a city of runners. Paul was at Corinth when the spring games of 51AD were held at Isthmia which was about 10km away. Perhaps he went to the games on a day-of? These games required training. Athletes could not enter, let alone hope to win, unless they had put in the many days of hard discipline and effort. Winners in the Greek…

By Not Known People become Christians in different ways. Some believe in Jesus after a slow, gradual and barely visible process. For others, it is a faster, more dramatic and very visible process. Acts 16:22-34 tells the story of a fast conversion. As we read it, we see a jailer walk five steps to salvation. Step one – conviction. The jailer was told to guard some…

By Not Known The Bible gives enticing picture of what things will be like at the end. Paul puts it this way: … God will be all in all (1 Cor 15:28). This does not mean that creation and its people will lose their identity. The heavens, the earth and its people will still ‘be’, but will have a renewed ‘shape’. Isaiah is one of many who draws a…

By Not Known A book of simple mentat experiments urges us to be self-aware of our I. Our I is unseen and indefinable, yet it shapes every thought, word, action and moment of self-consciousness. The search to know their I has driven many to existential anguish as it eludes ‘capture’ again and again. Paul has a clear sense of his I. Note the number of…