Tag: Bible
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An Encouragement for 2023? Don’t Despise the Small Things
It is rare that I get a specific word of encouragement for a year; in fact I think the last one was 2018, which considering the events of the years since then, seems like a distant era. At the end of 2022, however, I began to feel the stirrings of something, noticing a theme in […]
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Tracing the Tears – Resurrection #OurHolyWeek
This Holy Week, I’m going to be blogging each day, tracing the tears Jesus shed for Jerusalem to the tear filled eyes who first saw the Risen Christ. Throughout I’ll be following prompts from #OurHolyWeek “Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying.” John’s account of Jesus’ resurrection begins with tears. The tears of Good Friday […]
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Tracing the Tears – Holy Saturday #OurHolyWeek
This Holy Week, I’m going to be blogging each day, tracing the tears Jesus shed for Jerusalem to the tear filled eyes who first saw the Risen Christ. Throughout I’ll be following prompts from #OurHolyWeek No one likes to talk about days like today. There is no drama, no battle, no victory. The grave is […]
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Remembering Scripture
I write this, not from the kitchen sink a la “I Capture the Castle”, but underneath a baby who has finally decided to succumb to sleep. He’s two weeks old and I’ve never felt more inspired and yet unable to write. Babies do strange things to your brain. It was a difficult start for us […]
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I love my degree
I love my degree. I feel enormously privileged that I get to study the word of God, every day. That I get to sit with some of the world’s best theological scholars and just have a chat! That I get to be in a place where people care, about me, about my dreams and about […]
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You are not alone
It’s the name of a song by Michael Jackson and that statement has been a source of comfort for many for many years. This year, I have realised more than ever that these words are watermarked right through the Bible. When we muck up,we can see how God used David even when he got things […]
Rachael Newham 