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Category Archives: 43 John
Testimony
Ken
‘I came to Christ kicking and screaming! Well, I put up a fight.
‘By the time I was 20 I had been told what “sin” was numerous times, but I hadn’t yet realised I was guilty of it!
‘“Sin”, my mate said, “is when you think you are better than God.”
Testimony
Bernie
Confronted by racism, attacks and threats, Bernie’s welcome to Australia was not what he expected. But then he found a group of people who were totally different—they were welcoming, inclusive and caring. What was the reason behind their actions?
Love actually!
Love actually!
Walk in Love said 2 John 6 – a key theme of his ‘Little John’ letters.
But How? By walking in obedience silly! It is difficult to think of ways to be loving in disobedience. That is because truly loving someone is actually about putting them before ourselves. If they ask you to do something that you don’t want to do, then being obedient to them would mean putting their will before our own. That is a demonstration of love.
But hold on, what if they ask you to do something that is wrong? Well, doing something wrong is hardly loving?!
Gospel Bite: ‘All Religions are the same!’
A ‘Gospel Bite’ – a short answer to a commonly raised objection to the gospel.
Pluralism – the belief that all religions point to God – is one of the major challenges put to modern Christians. It appears in so many forms: ‘You Christians are so arrogant as to think you alone have the truth!’ or ‘My own view is more open: I like to think of all religions as containing their own truth’, or ‘What makes your religion so special when there are so many Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists in the world?’
God’s Shepherd and his Sheep
I was at the Adelaide Show and somehow found myself in a sheep pen!
Well, not quite in the pen, but in the hall where they were auctioning off the sheep – merino bulls to be exact.
Reading Ezekiel 34 – God’s Shepherd and his Sheep got me thinking. Is it derogatory to be compared to a sheep? After all, in Ezekiel 34 it is clear that there was the one true Shepherd and that would be Jesus – and he cared for his flock – his sheep. Now if we each are following that shepherd, then we are the sheep! Is it a bad thing to be labelled a sheep?
Then they will know that I am LORD
‘Then they will know that I am their Lord’ (Ezekiel 28:26)
One of the clearest ways that we know that God is Lord is when we feel the consequence of his judgement. We are in common company here. Time and time again throughout the Old Testament, both Israel (God’s people) and the foreign nations felt the wrath of God as a consequence of his judgment – and in it realized that the God of Israel was in indeed Lord.
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