Tag: bible
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Faith foundations
Earlier this week I was reading the Sermon on the Mount as part of the M’Cheyne plan. There’s a passage in the Sermon on the Mount that has always haunted me, and it again gave me pause. In Matthew 7:21-21, it says: 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of…
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Held in high esteem
I was reading through Acts 5 today (M’Cheyne) and honed in on the latter half of the chapter where the apostles were going around doing “many signs and wonders,” thrown in jail by the religious leaders, freed by a messenger, and teaching again in the temple. Throughout this narrative, I noted that the people “held…
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Word Study: Naked H6174 and H5903
New year means a restart of a bible reading plan. I’ve never written in a public space any reflections/discoveries/curiosities that come from my reading plans but maybe I’ll share more this year. Naked and nakedness Today in M’Cheyne I was reading Genesis 2 and 3 (chapter 3 is tomorrow but I figured I just read…
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A Slow Deconstruction
I’m in the midst of a slow deconstruction and I’m trying to work out how to potentially transition well in both mind and heart. The tricky thing about being an ordained minister is that you take vows. I’ve served in churches before where I’ve disagreed with some aspect of the church’s beliefs or practices and…
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Are You a Magician?
A few weeks ago I started the M’Cheyne Bible Reading plan after learning about it in a class lecture and being inspired by our class discussion about spiritual disciplines to go ahead with it.[1] It’s four chapters a day, and if you stick with it, you end up reading through the OT once, the NT…