When Paul quoted the well known words of this household proverb to the Corinthian and Galatian Ecclesias, all would have understood what he was saying. For millennia children had watched their mothers take a little leaven, carefully knead it into a large lump of fresh dough and then over the next fe…
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Oh how great the thoughts of Yahweh
And His ways above our own.
Oh how wondrous is His purpose
Unto us in mercy shown.
When the earth lay yet in darkness
On the deep His Spirit stirred
And His power formed Creation
At the signal of His Word.
Where were we when God divided
Light from dark an…
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In the Epistle to the Ephesians Paul shows us how we must be imitators of God. This can only come about by allowing the Word to dominate our thoughts and emotions and it will then be seen in all aspects of our life. It involves a “putting off” and a “putting on” or, in actual fact, a “putt…
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This article is not about marriage. It is about our expectations in life. Although in part written from the perspective of two young people baptised into Christ and deeply in love who enter into marriage with all the anticipations this brings, the principles set out below apply equally to an individ…
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