The future breaks into the present. My parents in law used to live in Ripon, North Yorkshire. A family visit to them meant also a visit to Lightwater Valley theme park. Much to our youngest daughters disappointment many of the rides were height restricted, and while her older siblings were allowed to ride the scary …
Category: God blogs
God’s will
Your will be done The Lords Prayer — Part 8 We pray for God's will to be done. But what exactly is God's will? Not just the big picture, but the small problem of what does God want me to do. But first back to basics. Jesus' summed up the commandments as love God with …
Kingdom
Your kingdom come The Lord's Prayer — Part 7 Dictionary.com defines Kingdom as: a state or government having a king or queen as its head. 2. anything conceived as constituting a realm or sphere of independent action or control: the kingdom of thought. 3. a realm or province of nature, especially one of the three broad divisions …
Praise
Praise comes first The Lord's Prayer — Part 6 Watching a beautiful sunset it is easy to be full of praise, especially if you are in the Cafe del Mar in Ibiza, listening to the chill out electronica and sipping a very expensive cocktail. This should be on everyone's bucket list. I have done that, and …
Name
Hallowed be your name The Lord's prayer — part 5 There is something about a name in the Bible, it is more than what you are called by. The name, in many ways, signifies who you are, especially when the name is given by, or relates to God. Take the example when God renamed Abram …
Hallowed
Hallowed be your name The Lord's Prayer — Part 4 Hallowed. Holy. Set aside. Hallowed be your name we pray. God is holy, God is set apart. There is no fault or blemish in God. Which one of us can create something by saying it? The opening of the Lord's prayer is a thing of …
In Heaven
In Heaven The Lord's Prayer — Part 3 "Heaven is a place on Earth," said the Belinda Carlisle song. But that is not what Christianity teaches. (Even though the words could be applied to God, Sister Act style.) Heaven is a mystery, it is something we cannot comprehend. All we know is that it is …
Father
Our Father The Lord's prayer - part 2 Jesus told us to treat God as Father, but not the authoritarian sort of father that some think of when they think about God. I have heard a sermon where it was said that Jesus used the Aramaic word Abba in the prayer, a word like the …
Our
Our Father The Lord's prayer - part 1 The Lord's Prayer is known in some circles as the Our Father, especially by Catholics, Paternoster, their liturgical name for the prayer is 'Our Father' in Latin. The thing to note about the Lord's prayer is that there are two versions of it in the Bible. The …
Evangelicals ‘Я’ us?
Ev*ng*l*c*l? Is it a dirty word? I have been thinking about negative feelings that the term Evangelical has been getting in the press, the Guardian newspaper seems to have a down on us. The term seems to be synonymous with right wing political ideas coming from the USA, but this should not be so. But …
Making an ass of myself 