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No, because the human spirit is not ‘natural’.
The ‘natural’ world follows rules, described by physics and chemistry. Biology follows these rules; apple seeds grow apple trees. The human spirit is not ‘natural’, but it resides inside a ‘natural’ body. The spirit is designed to be free and to act on the natural world. (This is what creativity is all about, and a…
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The Wilderness
It’s funny. You’d think being in the wilderness, unemployed, with no idea what is happening next is the most horrible place to be. But there’s something peaceful about it, and when my time in the wilderness was over, it was with reluctance that I said goodbye.
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Clean in, Dirty Out (Hosea Part 4)
It means that when a broken and hurting person is treated nicely, when someone “speaks into their heart,” all sorts of rubbish and detritis comes out.
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Holding On – Teaching Notes
Holding On would be ideal as a Year 7 text. AC9E7LA05 understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas How to build a compound sentence from simple sentences. How to build a complex sentence from simple sentences. How to go the other way The EFFECT of sentence length AC9E7LA06 understand…
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Some Interesting Greek Words from Luke 1 and 2.
This short post is just a record of some of the interesting words that are coming out of my Greek reading of the Gospel of Luke. I decided a few weeks ago that I was done with the English, and I was going to fight my way though in the Greek Geneai – Kin I…
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Power Clashes, Jesus and Humility
Power Frames, Power Clashes In his book, Pitch Anything, Oren Klaff describes his “frames”. (These are not to be confused with the memory frames I have written about in other posts.) He says that a frame is “the instrument used to package authority, strength, status. Everyone uses frames, whether they realise it or not. They…
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How Jesus Won Every.Single. Frame Clash
I’ve been thinking deeply on Oren Klaff’s frame theory, and have already come to the conclusion that a) Jesus won all of his frame-clash and b) Jesus expected his followers to mature to the place they could also win every frame clash. What was Jesus’ secret? If we check back on the first page of…
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