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Written by Jarrod Risson
Sunday, 05 September 2010 00:00
| Most of life is not lived in crisis. This is a good thing. Not many of us would be able to sustain a life of perpetual pain or loss or elation or challenge. Yet crisis has this to say for it: In time of crisis everything is important and significant. Life itself is on the line. No word is casual, no action is trivial. And almost always, God—and our relationship with God—is on the front page.
But during humdrum times, when things are ‘normal,’ our interest in God is crowded to the margins of our lives and we become preoccupied with ourselves. ‘Religion’ during such times is trivialised into asking ‘God-questions’: calling God into question or complaining about him; treating the worship of God as a mere hobby or something to do for a while; managing our personal affairs for our own convenience and disregarding what God has to say; going about our usual activities as if God were not involved in such mundane things as the lives of his creation.
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Written by Peter Meyer
Sunday, 29 August 2010 00:00
| See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us—even eternal life. 1 John 2:24-25
Three and a half thousand years ago Joshua and the Israelites stood on the boundaries of the promised land. It had been promised hundreds of years before they stood at this position, but here they are ready to take the land. Ready to receive their promised gift. It would be hard work and they would have to take the land and clean it out of its residents. But it was theirs. It was their destiny to be in Canaan.
As Christians we too have a destiny. As we have read in the passage above, if the word of God remains in us then we will remain in the Son and the Father and the reward of this is eternal life. Jesus promises us eternal life if we follow Him. So therefore it is our destiny to be with God for eternity, it is the fulfilment of the promise if we follow Him.
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Written by Simon Risson
Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:00
| I have started meeting with a couple of guys each week to be held accountable in my reading of Scripture, to unpack its meaning for our lives and to encourage each another through questions, struggles and moments of celebration. To be honest, it’s a little scary, but I am also grateful for the opportunity to be sharpened in my relationship with God and with others. It’s part of the decision I have made to be authentic.
It’s pretty easy to drift through life waiting for those God moments to come and bless us or fill us, fix us (or them!). However, I can’t get past the idea that moments of filling, changing and blessing are a response to God. Perhaps life comes when we shift our thinking, and our perspective...
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