Why this waste? What about the poor?
Ian B. We’re in Holy Week, the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. It’s a busy time for some of us I expect, with the different routine of school holidays. It was…
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Hearing the word of God
This week, instead of my usual podcasts, I listened to the Bible on my headphones while I was out and about. It was something new for me, and I’ll come…
1 John 4 – Abiding, loving (and testing)
This letter of 1 John has themes that come around again and again. So in chapter 4 we read again about the opponents of Jesus (which John calls antichrist), the…
1 John 2 – the perfection of the love of God
1 John 2 is much longer than 1 John 1 which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, and it contains a wide range of themes and ideas –…
The genitive love of God
Continuing our thinking about the love of God I was reading Romans 5.5 this week, which says that “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit…
Physical reality in 1 John 1
We recently began a new series on Sundays exploring the love of God. I encouraged our church to read the book of 1 John, which is a very short book…
Love Your Neighbour
Last week I started from a verse in Galatians 4 reflecting on our relationship with God. On Sunday I made a link with what Paul wrote later in Galatians 5…