I've been reading the Psalms lately (the whole year) and read Psalm 126 yesterday. Towards the end, the psalmist makes a request: "restore our fortunes LORD, like streams in the Negev." It's a cry to God for goodness to be abundant, and favour to be bestowed. It's also some cracking imagery. Australians are very familiar …
As my (just finished) scheduled posts on the Lord’s Prayer were rolling, there were times where I felt like jumping in and blogging on another matter. I’d set the posts for the lead up to Easter and the world was bad enough at that stage. Then it started raining on the east coast of Australia. …
Amen. It’s a word that’s usually placed at the end of a prayer. Alternatively, it may be sung at the end of a hymn… often by a group of young boys with very high voices, much like their collars. But what does it mean? Is it just a spiritual full stop? Well potentially, if you …
It’s almost the end of the prayer, bar this post and one more. Today is Good Friday, the day we remember the crucifixion of Christ. His death on the cross for the sin of all humanity. But why was it that Jesus was a worthy sacrifice in place of us all? Earlier in the Lord’s …
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