An Easter Message … an EASTER Message? Really!? The FOURTH in the series on the Minor Prophets, however, dealing with the FIFTH prophet. We skipped Obadiah … why? Jonah has a special significance for Easter, in “the sign of Jonah”. Jonah is
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Do we earn our salvation? Or do we do nothing at all? These are two positions we tend to fall into, yet the truth is somewhere in between. Reading Exodus chapter 30, verses 11-16, the temple tax, or ransom money. “Wherever a Church
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What does Bruno have to do with the prophet Amos? Exploring the third of the minor prophets, and chapter seven in particular, who is disturbing the status quo in Israel. Amaziah’s words to Amos: “Go, you seer! Flee to the land of
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Looking at the Lord’s Prayer, recorded in both the gospels of Matthew and Luke, we took the phrase, “As in heaven, so upon the earth” and drew an important principle: What rules us is what rules within us This service took place
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I came across an interesting topic in Hinduism recently that helped me better understand Swedenborg’s account of spiritual influxes that govern our lives. The topic is the observance of the ‘Gunas’ i.e. the predominant qualities that dominates one’s mind at any given time. As we go about
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Wilful Blindness! The blindness that is incurable. The will is the seat of our desires, our affections, what we love. It can receive what is good. The will is also capable of receiving the opposite, evil. The understanding is the seat of
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