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the first calling

On 22 June, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Before the call to be a Christian, or even the call to be Jewish, there was a call to be human:

Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it…

It’s a calling to cultivate. A blessing from God to humanity in the first part of the book of Genesis. It’s a [...]

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more than peace

On 24 May, 2011 · Leave a Comment

For all of the Hebrew Scriptures the central theme is peace.

It’s the word shalom. An all-encompasing peace that represents things being exactly as God would will them to be: man at peace with God, at peace with himself, with others and with this world.

Peace is what the prophets were talking about, what the [...]

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400 years

On 29 March, 2011 · 2 Comments

If you turn the page in your Bible from Malachi to Matthew too quickly it’s easy to forget you’re passing roughly 400 years of history.

There is a long pause between the final words of the Hebrew Scripture and the beginning of the Christian New Testament. Most scholars mark this pause as a time when [...]

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