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I got curious about the word ‘proclaim’ when it leapt out at me during a Communion service some years ago so I did some thinking and searching… This section was where my attention was grabbed:
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Forgiveness – The ideas attributed to forgiveness are often pre-packaged with a whole host of assumptions, a tonne of pain, a few shovelfuls of offence, confusion about moving forward etc etc etc and when you’re in the middle of a knot it can be pretty tricky to figure out which is what. It’s also pretty often that the knot itself is what gets in the way of being able to forgive when we assume more is meant by it than is so.
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Every night that I go outside, I find myself looking up at the moon and saying “Hullo Lord”. Not because I’m mistaking the moon for Him, or heading into some weird form of worship, but because the moon is a great reminder to me that He has set many ways to communicate with us, and in a sense the moon is one of those.
Continue reading “Passover-Easter-Communion series 1/8”
If you lived and worked in two different time zones, you would obviously need to keep track of the time in both places. The calendar we are used to is not the same as the calendar spoken of in the Bible. Because of this difference most of us are unaware of the days on which many recorded Biblical events happened, or the days on which God set His “appointed times” (moed).
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Mary and Joseph were both from the tribe of Judah (2000ish BC). It also seems that they were both descended from King David (1000ish BC). Mary a descendant of King Solomon, and Joseph a descendant of another of David’s sons – Nathan. That means, all the kings of Israel/Judah were in Mary’s lineage. While Jesus was not Joseph’s blood son, he was Josephs lawful son, and was of royal blood any which way you looked at it.
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FICTIONALISATION
“Nine nights since the temple shofars faintly sounded. Nine nights of counting. Nine nights of preparing, packing, remembering, walking.
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FICTIONALISATION
“I hear His name on the breeze – Yeshua HaMashiach. Jesus our Messiah. I know you’ll be here somewhere.
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The bitter herbs and wine are on the table. The lamb is resting. The other roast trimmings will be there too but tonight we remember the first and the last Passover. The last? Because Jesus fulfilled all the law. Tonight, and the coming week, is about honour and remembrance and learning and awe of how the law pointed toward Him, and all that He did.
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Have you ever had a child in such peril
That the axis of your inner world tips sideways
Your eyes dilate till the light burns them
Your breathing comes in painful gasps…
And then the wrenching sobs that start
An online dictionary says an ‘object lesson’ is:
1. A concrete illustration of a moral or principle.
2. A lesson taught by using a material object.