the waiting country

a love theme for the wilderness

Thursday, 30 March 2006

Mid-stream

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Psalm 78 is a recital of the history of Israel and their yo-yo relationship with YHWH. Some days they were up, some days they were down; and...
Tuesday, 28 February 2006

Pharaoh's daughter

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Commenting on the role played by Pharaoh's daughter in the raising and forming of Moses (and, so, in the redemption of Israel) Peter Enn...
Thursday, 23 February 2006

truth in timbre

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Their conversation is like a gently wicked dance: sound meets sound, curtsies, shimmies, and retires. Another sound enters but is upstaged b...
Saturday, 11 February 2006

Ready to forgive

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The perspective of Joseph on his sufferings at the hands of his brothers is quite stunning. When he reveals himself to them they are - well,...

Where's Dan gone?

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The sons of Jacob/Israel were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Jospeh and Benjamin. In Rev. 7:5-8 ...
Tuesday, 7 February 2006

learning how to receive

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Slow down. Hold still. It's not as if it's a matter of will. Someone's circling. Someone's moving a little lower than the an...
Wednesday, 25 January 2006

The biggest barriers

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to effective evangelism according to the prayer of Jesus are not so much outdated methods, or inadequate presentations of the gospel, as rea...
Thursday, 12 January 2006

The Church as Ordinary

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Extracts from Against Christianity by Peter J. Leithart (Canon Press, 2003, pp.16-18) Christian community...is not an extra "religious...
Sunday, 8 January 2006

The Ultimate Detox

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Mark 7:14-30 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside you can defile...
Friday, 6 January 2006

Why Jesus wants his people to be sanctified

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It would seem an obvious point: Jesus wants his people to be sanctified, to be holy. Yes, quite so. In fact, he prays for just that in his g...
Thursday, 5 January 2006

indeed

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if nothing else by Over The Rhine i'm so tired in the mornings i try to go back i try to remember the light appearing without warning t...

There are times

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...when time has a way of catching-up on you, dropping hints that cannot aspire to subtlety, affirming what you suspected all along but wer...
Friday, 23 December 2005

just wondering

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...if there is any connection between the triple-groaning of Romans 8 (creation; Christians; the Spirit) and the pains of childbearing of Ge...
Wednesday, 21 December 2005

Days

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These are the days you never saw; sun rises, sun sets just as before, but you have been laid to rest, never to rise in a morning of time, ne...
Sunday, 18 December 2005

Behind the question

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In Luke 13:1-5, Jesus tells of two recent events in which people have suffered - first at the hands of murderous Pilate, secondly in the col...
Tuesday, 6 December 2005

Wright on...

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"If Jesus is...the lens through which you glimpse the beauty of God, you will discover what it means to worship, because you will disco...

Esteeming our friends

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Sometimes it can be hard for missionaries and other Christian workers to speak about their work because they fear being 'put on a pedest...

More Jonah

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Jonah. Somehow he seems to have ended up a bit of a hero but in truth he was much more a villain. Called to preach a message of judgement, h...
Monday, 5 December 2005

Gone fishin'

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It’s a striking scene – a miraculous catch of fish is followed by an unequivocal call: “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men” (Mt. ...
Sunday, 4 December 2005

How the Gospel helps us to Plan and Pray (Romans 15:23-33)

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1. Planning Studded throughout Paul’s letters are indications of the plans he made regarding his gospel work. The details he records are ver...
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