Christianity and fatalism Look at this passage: 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’10 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes;lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”11 Then …
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Socialism, a Christian perspective?
This blog is the second part of one I wrote about Christianity and capitalism and has its basis in the same Twitter thread asking if you can be a capitalist and a Christian. One reply was that Christianity is Communism. Image taken from a blog by Island Christian Church Communism I used to be sympathetic …
Another Exodus – Psalm 106
The 4th book of Psalms Hallelujah One teaching method used by Jesus in his ministry is the chiasm, a series of statements that are then repeated and developed in reverse order. An early one comes in Genesis 9:6 in the ESV because unlike the KJV and others it follows the word order of the Hebrew …
Capitalism, a Christian perspective?
Can you be a Christian and a capitalist? A question asked on Twitter this week and the answers were as I expected, some not only saying no, but suggesting that the teachings of Jesus are consistent with communism. I will be dealing with the socialist side of things in the second of these two blogs, …
Count your blessings – Psalm 105
The 4th book of Psalms Hallelujah! There are a lot of psalms which tell of God's faithfulness through generations, but this one focuses on two events, God saving the household of Isaac from a famine by taking them into Egypt and then years later saving the descendants of these people from what had become a …
Flat Earth? – Psalm 104
The 4th book of Psalms Psalm 104 is a hymn of praise to God the creator for the wonderful world he made. It has not always been seen like that. Science or religion? There are some Christians who say we should not trust science and some scientists that say we should not trust religion. One …
Jesus loves to take what’s ruined and beautify it
I have seen a lot recently about how toxic social media is. The irony is this: They were all posted on social media. I am sure that the intention of Mark Zuckerberg's intention when starting Facebook was not to facilitate hate, and people have been removed from that network for hate crimes as they have …
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The 13 attributes of mercy – Psalm 103
The 4th book of Psalms This psalm and the three following ones are hymns, songs of praise to God, and bring the fourth book of psalms to a conclusion. This psalm has 22 verses, the same as the number of verses in the Jewish alphabet, though not an acrostic, as many of these kind of …
The Methodist Church and same-sex marriage
The Methodist Church in Great Britain looks set to be the largest Christian denomination to allow same-sex marriage in its churches. I heard this on BBC Radio Leeds on Sunday morning, 27th June 2021. In an interview Rev. Sonia Hicks, the president of the Methodist Conference, said that the move had been overwhelmingly approved by …
God will always be alive – Psalm 102
The 4th book of Psalms Last week, when talking about Psalm 101 I spoke about praying through the psalms in order to personalise them. That was all very well when the psalm was upbeat as that one was, but this is something different, a song of a person in distress. We have to make this …
