Posts under Tag: Jesus
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 35 – the Resurrection
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 35 – the Resurrection

In the lead up to (and during) 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 Lord is risen. He is risen indeed! The resurrection of Jesus was an amazing new beginning. Evil had [...]

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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 33 – The Crucifixion
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 33 – The Crucifixion

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. On the day Jesus was crucified and in the trial leading up to that event we see the biggest blow that [...]

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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 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 26 – Spend Nothing Day
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 26 – Spend Nothing Day

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. Yesterday we talked about our purchases and aiming to purchase ethically as much as we can as a reflection of [...]

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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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Christian Anarchy? An Oxymoron?
Christian Anarchy? An Oxymoron?

I have heard a few mentions of Christian Anarchy recently, a growing movement within Christianity, so I thought I would explain it as far as I can based on the little understanding I have and the bit of reading I have done since it caught my curious attention a while ago. Feel free to offer your own thoughts and understandings. [...]

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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 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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