CREATION
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Today we shift to the apostle Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, written to the fledgling Church in Ephesus while he was a prisoner in Rome around AD 60-62. It is a glorious presentation of God’s beautiful plan for His people. Daily Readings: Ephesians 1 and Psalm 138 Starting at the very beginning, Ephesians 1 reminds
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Daily Reading: Psalm 19 The great Christian theologian, St. Augustine, articulated an idea that was held by a number of early “Church Fathers”, when he wrote that there are in fact two holy books by which God is revealed to us – the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture. Psalm 19 appears to
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Daily Reading: Psalm 104 “1 Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendour and majesty.” As we read Psalm 104, we should bear in mind that psalms are poetry. They are not history, books of law, scientific theories, letters or Gospels. The psalmist is expressing deep truth in poetic imagery. In this particular
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Daily Reading: Job 38 By the time we reach chapter 38 of the Book of Job, this embattled man and his friends have been wrestling with the great question of human suffering, and God’s place in our suffering. For his friends it was theoretical, but for Job it was all about his personal experience of
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Daily Reading: Genesis 2 Like zooming in to a specific area on an electronic map, Genesis 2 zooms in on the moment first recorded in Genesis 1 when God created humanity. There we discover that, unlike any other living creature, Adam was not created from dust alone. In a deeply intimate moment, God also breathed
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Daily Reading: Genesis 1 As Spring sets in, we start a week of celebrating the glory of God in creation. “In the beginning God created …” Everything that is not God, was created by God’s will and God’s word. It is all God’s creative expression. The vast, as yet immeasurable expanse of the Cosmos. The
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