#30 Embedded Echoes of Scripture
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How reference to different texts within a text we are reading can reveal so much more about that reading.
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#29 True Security
As a sign of power, those who speak the loudest pull out guns to show their dominance.
More than showing just their dominance, they look to make themselves feel more secure. The unfortunate reality is true security happens at a far more fundamental level than one that requires munitions and violence.
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#28 Angels and Heaven in Scripture
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How words in scripture have a different meaning to what we understand them by today, as well as the process of uncovering the real ‘real world’.
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#27 Osama bin Laden
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Remembering the mark of Cain and calling off the hunt…
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#26 Strange Encounters with Jesus
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If we are to believe that it is in the Jesus Tradition to encounter his work in untraditional places, then surely we are compelled to believe bearers of Jesus could be the people we least expect to be so.
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#25 The Jesus Tradition
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Our tradition dictates where we find answers. What then does the Jesus Tradition say on finding answers on God and spirituality? Moreover, can the Jesus Tradition reconcile with us finding answers elsewhere?
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#24 Love Your Enemy
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Jesus, living out his teachings, and practising what he preached, would seek out his enemies so as to love them, and not only tolerate them when they just so happened to be in the same space as him. We, as individuals and nations, have much to learn from this, for when we seek out our enemies, it is rarely to show them affection.
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#23 Exclusion – The Greatest of all Sins
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Of all the sins we commit, excluding people may be the greatest of all. It’s even more so if we reject people in the name of God.
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#22 Healing Brings Faith
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Common wisdom is that faith brings healing. Yet, selflessly giving of ourselves to heal others can breed faith in itself. Not only does Jesus know this, he shows it, too.
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#21 Palm Sunday as a Response to Julius Malema
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On the eve of Palm Sunday, the correlations between Julius Malema and Pontius Pilate are startling.