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What is a Christian?
Book, Podcast, Film, and Blog Reviews
Poetry
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The Cows of Winscombe 13th September: Cows three days running? Really?
A third Cows of Winscombe reflection
He Took Me There
Hovering in the background are two New Testament verses…Romans 6v6 and Galatians 2v20
The Cows of Winscombe 12th September: Running in the Light
It was supposed to be raining, but the sun shone
The Cows of Winscombe 11th September: between a bull and a field of cows
My friends? The Cows of Winscombe
I’ll wear your crown
Jonah - yet another flawed biblical hero. Is I’ll wear your crown about Jonah?
The Punchy Epistle – James (ii) Main Course: Job
The Main Course: Job, patience in suffering, hanging in there when purpose is obscured
The Punchy Epistle – James (i) Starters: Abraham and Rahab
James - a 3-course meal. Starters.
The News w/b Sunday 17th August: Three Card Trick – Hiroshima, Hamas, Hurricane Erin
The Three Hs: Hiroshima, Hamas, Hurricane Erin
Hebrews - Back to the Burning Bush Report #8 Do Christians go to Church? Well…yes and no.
Church? Yes…but not as we know it
Hebrews - Back to the Burning Bush Report #7 The Awful Truth – biblical heroes are satanically flawed…and yet
Rebekah and the serpent in the Garden…similar? Jacob and Eve…similar? Really?
Hebrews - Back to the Burning Bush Report #6 The Faith of Rahab: Climbing Over Our Cultural Walls
Lot to learn from Rahab. The harlot. When faith comes our identity shapeshifts.
Lesson from a cider orchard
An encounter with an apple tree that took me to the heart of this, my website, www.unlessaseed.com, an unexpected return home
Hebrews - Back to the Burning Bush Report #5 Invisibility of faith
The worldview of the bible is not only that the world was made by God through the ‘God said’ of Genesis but is being shaped by hearing the word of God…the invisibility of faith
Hebrews - Back to the Burning Bush Report #4 Melchizedek
Melchizedek…the author of Hebrews has reached his goal…to share with His Jewish audience how the mysterious Melchizedek figure is key to their spiritual maturity…and ours