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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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5 Quotes by Martin Luther
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
The law says, ‘Do this,’ and it is never done. Grace says, ‘Believe in this,’ and everything is already done.
Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
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Last week we were invited to ‘The Metropolitan Congregation Church’ in Manchester, Nina shared how Liberty began and afterwards they treated us all to Pizza.
Taken from Jim’s Blog ‘Man: The Dwelling Place Of God’
Deep inside every man there is a private sanctum where dwells the mysterious essence of his being. This far-in reality is that in the man which is what it is of itself without reference to any other part of the man’s complex nature. It is the man’s “I Am,” a gift from the I AM who created him.
The deep-in human entity of which we speak is called in the Scriptures the spirit of man. “For what man knows the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God” (1 Cor. 2:11). As God’s self-knowledge lies in the eternal Spirit, so man’s self-knowledge is by his own spirit, and his knowledge of God is by the direct impression of the Spirit of God upon the spirit of man.
The importance of all this cannot be overestimated as we think and study and pray. It reveals the essential spirituality of mankind. It denies that man is a creature having a spirit and declares that he is a spirit having a body. That which makes him a human being is not his body but his spirit, in which the image of God originally lay.
One of the most liberating declarations in the New Testament is this: “The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23, 24). Here the nature of worship is shown to be wholly spiritual. True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs – in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.
From man’s standpoint the most tragic loss suffered in the Fall was the vacating of this inner sanctum by the Spirit of God. Man by his sin forfeited this indescribable wonderful privilege. Christ, will enter only by the invitation of faith. “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me”. (Rev. 3:20).
By the mysterious operation of the Spirit in the new birth, that which is called by Peter “the divine nature” enters the deep-in core of the believer’s heart and establishes residence there. “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His” for “the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Rom. 8:9,16). Such a one is a true Christian, and only such.
From: MAN the Dwelling Place of God by A. W. Tozer
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