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If Your Presence Does Not Go With Us

“If your Presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.” Exodus 33: 15

Cold Feet? Hey! Come and See How Good I Look!

Cold Feet? Reconsidering the Call

God delights in us enough to have orchestrated the great condescension of Jesus from the glory and majesty of the throne of God to the frailty of human frame and the freezing temperatures and animal muck of a farmyard.

Imagine being a Daddy and having a beautiful newborn baby boy. Imagine laying him on a cross of torture and suffering.

Imagine placing him down naked on a cold, wet winter pavement, turning and walking away from him.

Look at the Lamb (Outro & Day 21)

Day 21 – Nick At the end of October 2015 I was praying about how to finish this year’s reading of the Bible and the thought of studying the gospel of John landed in my mind pretty forcefully. What has followed is a 21-day series called Look at the Lamb.

Look at the Lamb (Day 20)

Day 20 – Nick Summary of Chapter 20 Verses 1-10: Mary Magdalene was distraught with grief and couldn’t sleep so she goes to be as near to Jesus as she thinks she can. Even being near to a dead Jesus is surely better than no Jesus at all. But the stone rolled away and anContinue reading “Look at the Lamb (Day 20)”

Look at the Lamb (Day 19)

Day 19 – Nick Summary of Chapter 19 Verses 1-16: The first 8 words of this chapter take one second to read. Scenes from Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ come to mind as we can only imagine what this ‘flogging’ looked like. Isaiah (52:14) gives us a better idea, approximately 760 years before, who detailsContinue reading “Look at the Lamb (Day 19)”

Look at the Lamb (Day 18)

Day 18 – Nick Summary of Chapter 18 Verses 1-14: Two gardens are separated by a dark valley – sound familiar? Jesus leads His men from the scene of the Vine discourse, through the Kidron Valley, to the garden of Gethsemane where Jesus would be arrested. It was a place that the company often wentContinue reading “Look at the Lamb (Day 18)”

Look at the Lamb (Day 17)

I watched the final episode of Who Dares Wins last night so a powerful scene comes to mind at the end of interrogation stage where the Umpire embraces the exhausted recruits struggling to adjust to their release.

Look at the Lamb (Day 16)

Day 16 – Clair Summary of Chapter 16 Verses 1 – 4a: Chapter 16 sees Jesus offer words of comfort to the disciples, although they may not have seen it that way initially. He wants His followers to know that they most definitely will face opposition. He doesn’t try to pull the wool over theirContinue reading “Look at the Lamb (Day 16)”

Look at the Lamb (Day 15)

Day 15 – Pauline Summary of Chapter 15 Verses 1-17: Here Jesus uses the analogy of a grape vine to describe how we should relate to Jesus. The word ‘remain’ (NIV) or ‘abide’ (NKJV) is repeated 11 times in 10 verses. Similarly, the word ‘fruit’ is repeated 7 times in 8 verses. Repetition is aContinue reading “Look at the Lamb (Day 15)”