The religion-threatening God (Amos 5-6)
Amos knew that people loved worshipping, singing new songs, the sense of God being near to us. But he also knew they could easily be fooling themselves.
Amos knew that people loved worshipping, singing new songs, the sense of God being near to us. But he also knew they could easily be fooling themselves.
It’s difficult to get the full sense of Amos’ portrayal of the passion of God, trying to get the attention of his people in ways we might feel were extreme.
Amos is an uncomfortable read. But we need to be discomforted from time to time. Religion can be dangerous when it makes you think that you’re always right.
Playboy have claimed that their battle has now been won. But how does the Bible help us make sense of the world that Playboy has created?
Often men dominate women in society, but that’s not how God created us. Men & women were created to be interdependent, working together to look after creation.
The temple was where Heaven met Earth; where sins were forgiven & impurity cleansed; a source of political power. But Jesus said He’d replaced the temple…
The disciples returned from the mission that Jesus had sent them on full of joy, sharing stories of how what Jesus had told them to do, had actually worked!
Being told to ‘Go’ by Jesus would have filled the 72 disciples with a range of emotions. They would go with a sense of vulnerability.
We need to trust God for the seemingly impossible to happen, whilst telling people that Jesus is near.
The anointing of Jesus by Mary is in all 4 gospels – all the writers thought that this was an important part of Jesus’ story.
A look at the final spiritual discipline that Jesus mentions in Matthew 6 – fasting.
How can we do generosity for the sake of others, and not for how it makes us look, using Paul’s example in his letter 2 Corinthians 8 and 9.