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Romans 13:8 ‘Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law’. Love isn’t something we have to grapple with to find it, to crave it or to demand it.  We already have love because we are created in God’s image, the key isContinue reading “In it together”

Luke 10:27 He answered ‘Love the Lord your God with all you heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’. Love is an interesting concept isn’t it? In our world we speak of love as something romantic, something that makes usContinue reading “What’s love got to do with it?”

Eph 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. By invitation only One key thing as human beings, we truly don’t understand is that we are not entitled to know God or be known by God. Now IContinue reading “Adopted into the family”

Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” Matthew 19:16 niv Last time we considered that to be born again, the process of leaving behind the old life of sin and a heart that chooses to follow Jesus, begins with a miracleContinue reading “Come into the kingdom”

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” John 3:3 niv In our last musings we were considering being children of God, that because Jesus offered his life on our behalf we could come into relationship with God and it is our sin (ourContinue reading “Come into the family”

Luke 15:7 ‘I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent’. Over the past few months, we have come from Genesis through to Revelation seeing the promise of the offspring to come andContinue reading “Children of God”

‘Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loudContinue reading “A time to come”

Full Justice As society we constantly demand justice, we don’t want anyone to get away with anything which we particularly deem unforgiveable.  There is something within us that cries out against the injustices we see in the world.  But, there seems to be a divide between our expectation of others and God’s expectation of us. Continue reading “Now and not yet”

The sacrifice needed to destroy sin and death would be provided for by God himself as shown throughout the Old Testament.  We see this particularly in the moment Abraham offered his Son Isaac to die (Genesis 22). God promised he alone would provide the sacrifice, this is a statement from God that mankind in andContinue reading “The great sacrifice”

John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men. Continue reading “The great separation”