Light of the world
John 8:12 is a familiar verse. It's one of Jesus' famous "I am" sayings. “I am the light of the world”, or
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Counter-cultural
John Stott articulates, with characteristic clarity, how counter-cultural the beatitudes are in Matthew 5:3-12:
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Christmas Story... in the digital age
There are a few similar videos doing the rounds on Facebook etc. at the moment, but this is the best I've come across. It would have taken a lot of work to put together!
Apart from one small anachronism over the e-mail address Mary chose for herself, it's excellent.
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The Last Place you Look
Truth, like so many things we hunt for, is often in the last place you look.
James Cary has started a new blog called The Last Place you Look.
I'll let James tell you his reason for starting it in his own words:
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Introducing the Psalms
I thought it might help if I wrote down my thoughts so far on the Psalms: What kind of literature are they? How are they to be read and interpreted today?
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Avalanche of Scripture
I recently spent a very happy day with Dr Garry Williams at The John Owen Centre studying the doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture. (That's to say: Take the sentence "The Bible is the word of God"? How does that statement relate to other areas of theology - like what God is like, and the acts by which he makes himself known in history? What do we mean when we say "The Bible is the word of God"? What are we not saying when we say that? What biblical data would support that assertion?) A happy, and a very useful, day.
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Quote: Professional detachment
I think this post from Steve Jeffery is very helpful
2 Samuel 6 describes what King David did when the Ark of the LORD was brought into the city of Jerusalem.
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Hallelujah!
http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2010/11/awesome-pop-up-hallelujah-... is well worth a look.
The post links to this clip on youtube:
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Operation World 2010
I'm delighted to see that a new edition of Operation World is due to be published tomorrow.
Amazon are showing a price of £11.14 for the paperback; or £21.24 for the paperback book and a CD-ROM copy. It is also available in hardcover.
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The whole Bible
"Once you are convinced that your people need — I say need — the whole Word of God, and you get over the shock to your indolent flesh that you are not in the ministry for an easy job, you simply roll up your sleeves, and having gathered, or being in process of gathering, the most helpful library of commentaries and reference books you can find, you get down to it: and book by book you give your people a balanced diet of the truth." (William Still, The Work of the Pastor
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