Posts under Tag: Christian
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 34
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 34

In the lead up to Easter we have been putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions are also available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and have been played on New Zealand’s Rhema. The death of Jesus represented a moment of confusion for the disciples and without the hindsight of the Resurrection; the time [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 32
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 32

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. On the night before Jesus was crucified he broke bread and drank wine with his disciples, using the bread and [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 31
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 31

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In the account of Jesus entering the city of Jerusalem in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 21, we are given [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 30. The challenge of slum living
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 30. The challenge of slum living

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. During the very short amount of time I have spent visiting urban slums in two developing countries there is something [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 29
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 29

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. The beginning chapters of Genesis make a profound statement about humanity, declaring that we were made in the image of [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 28
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 28

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. A recent Time article stated that in the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society – whether it’s [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 27 – God’s Fast
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 27 – God’s Fast

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. As a Christian it’s easy to get caught up in ‘doing Church’ and all the trappings that go along with [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 25 – Buy FAIRTRADE
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 25 – Buy FAIRTRADE

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. Do you ever give much thought to where the things you purchase come from? Have you ever wondered what the [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 24 – Caring for the Sick
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 24 – Caring for the Sick

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. During a very short time I spent in India, I had a chance to sit in a room in a [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 23
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 23

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In his letter to the church in Galatia, Paul gives us two opposing lists, they are in chapter 5 of [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 22 – The Human Jesus
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 22 – The Human Jesus

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. Often we focus on the divine nature of Jesus – he’s the King, God incarnate, the risen saviour, the divine [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 21 – Blessed are the Peacemakers
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 21 – Blessed are the Peacemakers

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In the famous sermon Jesus gave on a mountain, he put forward what is now known as the Beatitudes, in [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 20
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 20

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. Often people hurt us and relationships break because someone lets us down – for me it was the father who [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 19 – Err on the Side of Love
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 19 – Err on the Side of Love

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In the gospel of Luke, chapter 15, there is a famous story about two brothers and their father. One brother [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 18
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 18

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In his letters and papers that he wrote in prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest theologians of last century, [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 17 – The Great Christian Paradox
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 17 – The Great Christian Paradox

In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. There is a great paradox in the message of Christianity that centers on the cross of Jesus, his crucifixion – [...]

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