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Tag Archives: sin
The power to heal and forgive.
There is an amazing story of faith and faithlessness that is told in Luke 5:17- 26 when Jesus heals a paralytic man whose friends lowered him down through the roof, because they couldn’t get inside to see him. Over … Continue reading
Posted in forgiveness, sin
Tagged forgiveness of sin, healing, healing of the paralytic, Luke, sickeness, sin
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A different kind of gardener.
It concerns me about the current hubbabaloo that is going on again about a well known pastor who had fallen from grace. That is, mans grace. In any kind of conversation about the brokenness and sinfulness of humanity, its … Continue reading
Posted in Kingdom Living
Tagged fallen pastors, gardening, prodigal son, sin, tares and the wheat
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Radical Evil or Radical Love.
I read this quote this morning by Gustavo Gutierrez, who is a Roman Catholic theologian working with the poor in Lima. He says. Because sin is radical evil, it can be conquered only by the grace of God and the … Continue reading
Personal Repentance.
I love the global nature of blogging. I can read the thoughts and works of others around the world. I can be encouraged by what they write. I can be saddened by what they write. I can be built up … Continue reading
Posted in Dave Black, Repentance
Tagged change, gentleness, Personal conviction, repentance, sin
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2 days away. The good, the bad and the plain ugly.
We had a interesting trip away down to the Australian Capitol. It was interesting because it had a mixture of good, bad and ugly. It took us three hours driving to get to Canberra and we went straight to the … Continue reading
Posted in life experience, Lifestyle
Tagged canberra, children, cleaning, cleanses, grace of God, healed, Jesus, musem, sick children, sin, spew, vomit, war, war museum
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Romans 6:1-11 The master stroke: Fully alive.
Paul makes a series of profound statements; ‘We died to sin: how can we then live in it any longer…Don’t you know that all of us who were baptised in Christ Jesus were baptised into his death…We should no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Romans
Tagged Christ, death, forgiveness, life, mastery, resurrection, Romans 6:1-11, sin, slavery
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Failing Forward.
The other day I was in a bit of a melancholy reflective mood and wrote some poetry about finding peace. This morning I would like to expand a little more on what I wrote about the ache of the soul. … Continue reading
Posted in prayer
Tagged empowerment, failure, Faith, forgiveness, internal pain, life experience, lifestyle, poetry, reflective mode, sin
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Freedom from what?
I was sitting in church yesterday and scribbled a few notes down about how every nation, every people group, every gender, and every age group are united equally in the bondage of sin. So while ALL have sinned and fallen … Continue reading
