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God before ages becomes an infant!I saw a beautifully sung a...

God before ages becomes an infant!I saw a beautifully sung a capella song the other day of Facebook. It was about the Nativity, the incarnation of Christ. One of the lines in the song really struck me, the profound nature of what God did summed up in a single sentence: Glorify, with the angels and the shepherds, Him who by His own will has become a newborn child, yet is our God before all ages. Let that sink in for a moment before reading this excerpt from one of John Chrysostom’s sermons on…Continue Reading at That Ancient Faith →...

Exodus 6: Inheritance

Exodus 6: Inheritance: The average woman in the UK spends half a million pounds on fashion over their lifetime. The Fashion business is worth £26 billion. We spend 90,000 hours working at our jobs in a lifetime. The average UK Woman spends 310,000 on cosmetics in a lifetime, a £300 billion industry. The housing market in UK is worth over £5 trillion.Why?Because what we have and what we earn, and how we look is what defines us. Title, status, exam grades, qualifications, all make up our identity.Israel wasn’t that different. God had promised Abraham that he would be the father of nations. That he would inherit a land…The problem is, it was never just abo...

What is time?

...s been in sermons per se either, but rather that this seems to be the general thoughts and beliefs about God that I've noticed when people speak or explain certain things that relate to time and God. Somewhere along the way in general church-peoples theology, this idea of a "time-travelling God" has crept in somehow (along with other strange ideas that I disagree with - but that's another topic for another post!) which I think is dangerous to the extent that it creates and leads to other false and flawed doctrines on prayer and intercession. Prayer is for now, not later. There's no praying in the present for yesterdays ev...