Posts under Tag: Lent
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, put [...]

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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 – that [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 16 – The Prayer of St Francis
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 16 – The Prayer of St Francis

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.
St Francis of Assisi was a man who devoted himself to poverty in order to travel and share the Gospel, the [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 15 – Rethinking Food
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 15 – Rethinking Food

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.
Today, let’s consider something very specific – those who do not have enough to eat.
A large portion of the world’s population [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 14
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 14

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 second letter to the Church in Corinth Paul expresses something that explains his compulsion as a disciple of Jesus. [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 13 – Self Denial
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 13 – Self Denial

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.
Self denial is often seen as a practice confined to the fanatical, those who are a little extreme, yet it is [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 12 – John Wesley on Communal Christianity
Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 12 – John Wesley on Communal Christianity

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.
John Wesley once said:
“The gospel of Christ knows of no religion, but social; no holiness but social holiness.”
Often this has been [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 11 – Tools of Justice

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 Christian tradition that is often carried out this time of year in the lead up to Easter. [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 10 – Shunning Status

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.
One of the addictions of our culture is social status – we crave it – to be seen as important or [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 9 – You Will Always Have the Poor With You

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 verse in the Bible that is often quoted to justify not working to help the poor. Jesus says [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 8

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 John 18, before the Crucifixion of Jesus, Pilate stands before the people and offers them the chance to free Jesus [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 7

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 Luke 7:34 Jesus gives us the words of a scornful generation describing him as a glutton, a drunkard and a [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 5 – Being a Voice for the Voiceless

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.
You and I have a voice, the ability to speak and be heard, to say something and be listened to. What [...]

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Preparing Our Hearts for Easter: Day 4 – The Environment

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 debate about Climate Change is a hot one and can sadly serve to distract us from the very real call [...]

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Preparing our Hearts for Easter: Day 3 – Simplify

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.
We live in a world that encourages us to accumulate material goods. In our society we are too often seen as [...]

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PREPARING OUR HEARTS FOR EASTER: DAY 2

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 Matthew 25 and the parable of the sheep and the goats, Jesus presents a unique challenge to how we live [...]

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