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Big Jesus wins award for the ‘Best Community Entry’ in the parade.
We had a unique perspective on Jesus, His fame and renown. If the crowds were silenced even the stones would have cried out to Him.
This must be what it was like for Jesus to enter Jerusalem, re-enacted for the benefit of his LGBT people…What does this say for us and for Him?
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Anon: If you are a new creation in Christ, then you will never be what you used to be because you already are what you will be. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.
Teresa of Lisieux: Christian “perfection” is, in fact, our ability to include, forgive, and accept our imperfection. As I’ve often said, we grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right. That might just be the central lesson of how spiritual growth happens, though nothing in us wants to believe it.
Due to a power cut at St Paul’s last week there was no meeting, hence no preach.
Taken From the Liberty Blog ‘The Furious Love of God’
By Paul Ellis, Escape To Reality.
One of the greatest mistakes we can make, is we undervalue the love of Almighty God. We put his wild, reckless love in a box of undersized belief and we bury it under a temple of tradition. God’s love is this. God’s love is that. We think we have it all figured out.
Except we don’t. We have not even scratched the surface of his love for us. Love, like the God who gives it, is far greater than we know or imagine.
Every year, I glimpse a new facet of God’s love and I am freshly amazed. Some years ago I realised God’s love and grace are hyper. Lately I am learning that his love is aggressive, fierce, and sometimes furious.
Furious love. Fierce grace. These are not adjectives that come to mind when we picture Jesus meek and mild. But there was nothing meek and mild about the cross.
A hundred years ago, the poet G K Chesterton coined the phrase “the furious love of God.” I define furious love as relentless love that will never quit. It is a never-say-die love that rescues us from those things that seek to harm us. It is a love that pursues us even as we scorn it. It’s a love that will not yield to defeat, despair, or death.
The Love of God
Before the stars first learned to shine,
His love had written every line—
Of time, of life, of you, of me,
Etched deep in grace eternally.
No mountain high, no ocean wide,
Could hold the love He will not hide.
It calls the lost, uplifts the weak,
And finds the heart too tired to speak.
In manger low and cross held high,
That love would bleed, that love would die.
But death could never be the end—
The grave gave way, and love would mend.
It knows no shadow, fears no night,
It breaks the chains and brings the light.
Unfailing, fierce, yet tender still,
It moves the soul, it bends the will.
Oh, love that sought me when I ran,
That met me as a broken man,
You are my song, my resting place—
My hope secured in boundless grace.
So let me live within that flame,
To love, to praise, to bless His name.
For all my days and evermore,
God’s love will be my richest store.
Full Notes in Preaching
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