40 blogs of Lent - Day 16 Hold on fast Messages to the churches - Day 15 Thyatira - Day 3 I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. ... But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this …
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Why can’t we have both of them?
40 blogs of Lent - Day 18 Why can't we have both of them? Messages to the churches - Day 14 Thyatira - Day 2 ‘I know your works, ... But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practise sexual immorality …
What’s in your hand?
40 blogs of Lent - Day 17 What's in your hand? Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 5th March, 2018 Church today, and after trudging through the remains of last week's unseasonably late snow, I grabbed an unusual for me before service coffee before entering the sanctuary. Other than the outside temperature, there was nothing unusual …
Judgement
40 blogs of Lent - Day 16 Judgement Messages to the churches - Day 13 Thyatira - Day 1 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. Thyatira is located in western Asia …
The compromising church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 14 The compromising church Messages to the churches - Day 11 Pergamum - Day 3 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat …
No second death
40 blogs of Lent - Day 10 No second death Messages to the churches - Day 8 Smyrna - Day 3 A poem He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death. No second death We believe in resurrection, …
The persecuted church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 9 The persecuted church Messages to the churches - Day 7 Smyrna - Day 2 ‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear what you …
Death and Life
40 blogs of Lent - Day 8 Death and Life Messages to the churches - Day 6 Smyrna - Day 1 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life. Smyrna was located north of Ephesus in a powerful trading position on …
The tree of life
40 blogs of Lent - Day 7 The tree of life A train of thought experiment in free verse Messages to the churches - Day 5 Ephesus - Day 4 To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’ The tree of life God …
The loveless church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 6 The loveless church Messages to the churches - Day 4 Ephesus - Day 3 “‘I know your works ... But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at …
