Biblical Stations of the Cross Opening prayer: God of power and mercy,in love you sent your Sonthat we might be cleansed of sinand live with you forever.Bless us as we gather to reflecton his suffering and deaththat we may learn from his examplethe way we should go. We ask this through that same Christ, our …
Tag: Judgement
The day God was dead
Black Saturday You can always tell if a Christian feast is important, not by how we all agree with what to call it, but by how we disagree. Some feasts are so full of meaning that one name is not enough to describe what happened. or in the case of this day, one name is …
Glorified or judged? – 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
The prayers of Paul This is a series on the prayers of St Paul found in the letters attributed to him in one of the orders he is believed to have written them. Letters to the same place or person will be treated together with the first letter to that destination. This prayer follows a …
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Persecution is a sign of God’s judgement – 2 Thessalonians 1:3-5
The prayers of Paul This is a series on the prayers of St Paul found in the letters attributed to him in one of the orders he is believed to have written them. Letters to the same place or person will be treated together with the first letter to that destination. My look at the …
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Law, judgements and righteousness
Psalm 119 Psalm 119 is a great acrostic poem, the longest psalm, and the longest chapter in the Bible. The 22 stanzas each consist of 8 lines, each line starting with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet, each stanza having a different start letter. It is an epic love song for God's law. Zayin49 Remember your …
Judge
Welsh Judges in procession 40 Names of Jesus in 40 days of Lent — Day 15 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that [Jesus] is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. Acts 10:42 ESVUK Somethig extraordinary happened in Acts 10. Peter was talking about the …
Forgiveness has been brought into the present — Matthew 18:21–27
Humility and forgiveness — Part 1 A reflection for Good Friday 40 blogs of Lent — day 38 The Galilean ministry of Jesus is over. Over a period of time his ministry has taken him into Gentile lands, first just across the Jordan to Bethsaida, then to Tyre and Sidon, the Decapolis and Caesarea Philippi. …
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You thought I was exactly like you: Psalm 50:21
Psalm 50 — Psalms of Asaph In my introduction to 2001, I said that this year one of the themes of this blog this year would be worship. I have also lamented in the last year the lack of lamenting as part of worship. These next 12 psalms, written by Asaph, are not only laments, …
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Animal husbandry for beginners – Matthew in Advent day 20
Nearly all the meat you eat is male. My great-grandfather was an agricultural worker in North Yorkshire, between Malton and Pickering, near to where the Flamingoland theme park now stands. He moved to West Yorkshire to become a farm owner, running a dairy farm on Hartshead moor. That farm is no longer in the family …
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The judgement of God
Reconciling God's judgement and God's grace God's judgement means that sin will not go unpunished.God's grace means that we do not get what we deserve.God's love means that we are all cared for. How do we reconcile these things? God’s judgement. God's judgement has traditionally been seen in terms of Hell fire, I have no …
Making an ass of myself 