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Exodus 7: Heart Matters

Exodus 7: Heart Matters: in Exodus, the Israelites had forgotten that He was God as they were now slaves and had been worn down by the pressures of life. But God had promised them an inheritance.This is for the church today also. He knows all that is going on and He has promised. ‘I will pour out my Spirit on all people: I will show wonders in the heavens and on earth: and every one who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ Life is eternal. People need jesus and He has chosen us to be the people to demonstrate His love to others. jesus came to earth and loved us enough to be ridiculed for us, to take the sins of us all, to be punished so we can go...

Book review on Rob Bell's “Love Wins”

This book was quite openly condemned by some prominent Christian leaders when the book was first announced back around Spring 2011, mainly mainly accusing Bell of being a universalist and denying the existence of hell. Lots of leaders formed opinions about the book and thus lots and laypeople took on various opinions as their own without much insight or research. The problem was that these leaders hadn't even READ the book! It wasn't released yet at the time. They decided their opinions based on the blurb and promo video which posed provocative questions about the doctrine of hell. The book starts up asking lots of questions c...

Organic Church

I was reading an article on Christianity Today (amongst other blogs) earlier on about the subject of "organic church" and its possible success and probable future failures. Now, I'll admit I didn't (don't?) know a great deal about organic church other than I've heard the name thrown about before. According to the article it includes " at least three ingredients" to be counted as "organic". First being "Frustration with the-church-as-we-know-it" - well I'm sure there's quite a few people who would fall into that category, I know I do! The second ingredient for this recipe for church is "a focus on people (vs. progra...

Exodus 17: Strategies for Battles

Exodus 17: Strategies for Battles: Although Satan’s plan is to sift you like wheat, jesus has prayed that your faith will remain. Satan wants us to attribute his working against us to God working in us. He wants us to believe a lie about God and the situation we are in. All t…...

Hell and all that damnable stuff

So on light of all the Rob Bell controversy, it resparked my desire to look into the traditional doctrine of hell. My thoughts on it all began long ago before I went to study theology about 5 or so years ago now. A good close friend of mine was struggling in her faith over the traditional hell concept and found it hard to rectify or justify in her mind. It was the usual question of "how can a loving God burn people forever?" infinite punishment for finite crimes. I had thought about it before then but never in any great depth as I just didn't know where to begin, being a fairly new Christian at the time. I did my best to try w...

Exodus 6: inheritance pt 2

Exodus 6: inheritance pt 2: Abram and Sarai grew up in Ur amidst many foreign gods who they always needed to try to appease.They were a wealthy couple who had high status in their country, yet something profound happened in them when they were so impacted by the Living God and they packed up all they had and decided to go somewhere, not knowing exactly where.They gave up everything for Him. Challenge: Are we ready to give up everything we know at the drop of a hat when God tells us what He wants us to do? Do we give our lives enough to jesus, giving up everything we have to Him?http://www.marshillchurchteignmouth.co.uk...