Cascades
That's the name I've given to this piece which I hope you'll enjoy - accompanied by some rather insignificant vids of water and birds to...
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gpsteward
- Sep 15, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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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