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Names of God – Part 51: Wisdom

On 23/03/201926/02/2019 By balaamIn God5 Comments

Chokhmah Names of God - Part 51 Wisdom 40 Blogs of Lent: 16 God is wisdom. At this point. It becomes less personal and runs off in the direction of philosophy. What I am trying to do in these blogs is to talk about how God legates to us personally and how we can relate …

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Names of God – part 50: Father

On 16/03/201916/02/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Ab Names of God - part 50 Father 40 Blogs of Lent: 10 Some Christians think that the concept of a Father God was introduced by Jesus, that God our Father has no history before that. But it would be a mistake to think that. Ab, the Hebrew name for father, and used to mean …

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Matthew’s Gospel: …and healing

On 15/03/201922/06/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Matthew's Gospel: ...and healing 40 Blogs of Lent: 9 Matthew 4: 23-25 Here comes the change from being an obscure preacher to becoming a famous one: Healing. Jesus healed and his fame spread. Signs and wonders accompanying the preaching of the Gospel was a big thing in the ministry of Jesus. The Gospel writers noted …

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Matthew’s Gospel: Team Jesus

On 14/03/201922/06/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Matthew's Gospel: Team Jesus 40 Blogs of Lent: 8 Matthew 4:18-22 Jesus has been preaching repentance for a year, and it is time to move on to part two of his ministry. The first stage is to assemble his team. The first stage of that is to hand pick the team leaders,   Two pairs …

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Matthew’s Gospel: Repent

On 13/03/201922/06/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Matthew's Gospel: Repent 40 Blogs of Lent: 7 Matthew 3:12-17 Jesus having been baptised by John in the Jordan, and having spent time in the wilderness confronting the devil now starts his ministry: Matthew always provides a link to what has gone before, here the link is that Jesus' ministry started like that of John, …

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Matthew’s Gospel: Temptation

On 12/03/201922/06/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Matthew’s Gospel: Temptation 40 Blogs of Lent: 6 Matthew 4:1-11 Jesus is tempted by the Devil in the wilderness and overcomes his tempter during a period of fasting. The temptations are something happening during the time of fasting, everything is concurrent, it is not meant to be sequential, All of this happens, possibly more than …

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Names of God – part 49: Lord

On 09/03/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Adonai Names of God - part 49: Lord 40 Blogs of Lent: 4 Now we are into stand-alone names for God, without the prefix El or YHWH. The first of these is Adonai, which translates as Lord. No small capitals here this is not a representative of Gid's actual holy name, this word is one …

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Lent, and what I’m doing with it

On 06/03/201907/02/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

Blogging through Lent 40 blogs of Lent: day 1 Lent comes around again, a season where people traditionally give things up, but I will be instead taking things on. Extra blogging. As I have done in the last few years I will be blogging for the 40 fast days, this year will be on parts …

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Wealth and possessions have a godlike power

On 04/03/201907/03/2019 By balaamIn church, GodLeave a comment

Roots 7: Simplicity and service Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Sunday 3 March 2019 I love my church. Another long morning. I arrived early during the early service so that I could set up my percussion before the later service, there had bee a concert in church last night so things could not remain set up. …

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Names of God – part 48: God of Salvation

On 01/03/201906/02/2019 By balaamIn GodLeave a comment

YHWH Yeshu' Athai Names of God - part 48: The LORD God of Salvation YHWH is God’s actual name which he revealed to Moses from the burning bush, it implies the personal nature of God. The second part of the name here is how God relates to us: Salvation is one of those words we …

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