The next Jesus Centred Life day in London is Saturday October the 24th, at the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, for more information on the curriculum and course click here! September’s kick off day seemed to go really well, with at least three people who had come just to try out the course booking in for the Read More …
In Exodus 14, the people are between a rock and a hard place, or more literally they are between Pharaoh’s army and the Red Sea. Moses steps forward and shouts “Fear not, stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord… He will fight for you“, Exodus 14:13-14. The “Angel of the Lord” seen in Read More …
I’ve just spotted this… I’ve had a hunch for a while that I would spot more in Genesis 1:1 than I’ve already written up (see “Jesus in the Beginning”) and I just saw a description of the pictographic roots of the words “Father” and “Son” in Hebrew, (which will need a future post too) and Read More …
Test your knowledge of how Jesus appears in the first book of the Bible. This is a short quiz, just 11 questions, it doesn’t by any stretch cover all that could be said about Jesus in Genesis… but it is fun and if you get the question correct there is often a extra bit of Read More …
The Sci-fi writer and gnostic theologiser Philip K Dick once helped an African man in a petrol station, I dont know the details of the encounter, but there was something about it that led Philip K Dick to believe it was a re-interpretation of the story of Philip meeting the Ethopian on the road to Read More …
Proverbs 8 spells out the role of Wisdom as a active agent in Creation, the passage makes Wisdom female, but the didn’t stop first century Jewish Philosopher Philo refering to Wisdom as “The Word” and calling it/her/him “the first-born Son of God”. The early Church recognised Jesus in Wisdom because Proverbs 8:24 presents this agent, Read More …
In chapter three of Genesis, God makes a statement heard both by humanity and the demonic powers: ” I will put enmity between you (the devil) and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring, he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel. ” – Genesis 3:15 This is the first Read More …
This is not one of those quizes that everyone finds easy… but stick with it till the end, there are explanations and answers. How much do you know about the people in Jesus family tree and the names and relationship of friends and family as recorded in the Gospel’s? Please note two assumptions: First, that Read More …
This is a great video by Dan Stevers. You can download it along with others for use in home groups etc. Hope you enjoy it!
The book of Ruth, like the first book of Samuel, joins the period when Israel was a tribal family, the age of the Judges, to the period when they where a unified kingdom under the proto-type messiah, the three times anointed King David. The book starts with 12 tribes, a famine and no king. The Read More …
