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Jan 114 min read
What should a Christian do in a time of crisis?
Before addressing the issue of what a Christian should do in a time of crisis, we should think of where the answer to that might be...
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Dec 22, 20241 min read
From the heart’s depths
Pinning an emotion to music is not always easy. Although most styles are fairly clear – happy, joyful, sad, or whatever – a few, such as...
gpsteward
Sep 2, 20242 min read
PSALM 91 IN METRE
The word “psalms” means songs of praise. Here is an interesting version of Psalm 91 from The Psalms of David in Metre , “according to the...
gpsteward
Apr 1, 20243 min read
The Value of Discussion
The world has a tendency to constrict and restrict us, to hamper, hinder, enclose, minimize us, and to make us feel small and try to push...
gpsteward
Dec 19, 20232 min read
The Beatitudes and the Gospel
Each beatitude on its own can be the starting point for preaching/sharing the gospel. You could preach the whole gospel from just one of...
gpsteward
Oct 27, 20232 min read
Living the Beatitudes
Living the Beatitudes Today looks at how the Beatitudes are like a hinge between the Old and New Covenants of the Bible. They are not...
gpsteward
Aug 26, 20234 min read
How to read Living the Beatitudes Today book and study guide
When He began His Sermon on the Mount, what might Jesus have been thinking? Perhaps, and I’m only guessing, it was something like how He...
gpsteward
May 18, 20234 min read
The Second Coming
Earlier this year, I did a quick read-through of the New Testament to find the references to Jesus’ Second Coming. Here’s what I found....
gpsteward
Sep 15, 20223 min read
He knows what’s happening!
Psalm 94 has encouraged me recently. Here’s a précis. The psalmist is concerned about the wicked in the midst of his own people, not in...
gpsteward
May 13, 20223 min read
Could Habakkuk have something to say about our world today?
What could the words of a prophet from approximately 2600 years ago be saying to us today? Can we draw any parallels? Did he feel the...
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Mar 2, 20225 min read
On Perfectionism
Many of us struggle with perfectionism. It can be a good thing but also not, depending on the context. When I sit down at home and play...
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Dec 20, 20213 min read
Books on Cult Mind Control and the Beatitudes
Any group which deliberately and systematically controls or limits freedom of choice may come under the category of a cult, but the real...
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Aug 24, 20213 min read
The Beatitudes and Psalm 49
I love how Psalm 49 begins. “Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. Both low and high, rich and poor,...
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Aug 9, 20212 min read
The Beatitudes are in microcosm the biblical worldview
They speak of: 1. The fall (poverty of spirit) 2. mourning over that fallenness; but also comfort from God through salvation—as God...
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Aug 2, 20212 min read
Each beatitude links with the other beatitudes
Each beatitude links with the other beatitudes and each protects the others from being wrongly interpreted. For example, if righteousness...
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Jul 26, 20211 min read
The Beatitudes and Character
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said of the Beatitudes “All Christians are to be like this” and “All Christians are meant to manifest all of these...
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Jul 19, 20211 min read
The Beatitudes - eight opening statements of Jesus’s first recorded sermon, the Sermon on the Mount
The Beatitudes link the teachings of the Old Testament to those of the New Testament, down to the last page of the Bible. The way Jesus...
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Jul 12, 20211 min read
What does a healthy spiritual life look like? The answer is found in the Beatitudes.
The first thing to know about the Beatitudes is that they are not skills to be learned but qualities of character - to be received - and...
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