Meet The Parents Part Three: Ezekiel

Ezekiel starts with a theological grenade. God wasn't back with the remnant in Jerusalem - God was here, with the exiles, in Babylon.

“In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.”

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Meet The Parents Part Two: Lamentations

Over the coming months, we’re going to meet our spiritual ancestors. not only the famous characters, but the generations who remembered them, retold their stories and sometimes argued with them.

We’re going to ask how the faith we inherited came to exist. Where did these ideas about God, humanity, justice, sacrifice, salvation and belonging come from? What were our ancestors trying to understand? And what does faithfulness to their conversation require from us now?

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Meet The Parents Part One: Introduction

Over the coming months, we’re going to meet our spiritual ancestors. not only the famous characters, but the generations who remembered them, retold their stories and sometimes argued with them.

We’re going to ask how the faith we inherited came to exist. Where did these ideas about God, humanity, justice, sacrifice, salvation and belonging come from? What were our ancestors trying to understand? And what does faithfulness to their conversation require from us now?

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Rest for the Weary

Rest for the Weary
Huw Jones

Maybe God Can't

If God is love, then maybe we’ve gotten omnipotence wrong. What if God and Love (Agape) are really two words trying to name the same reality?

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Between Ascension and Pentecost

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.”

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Rewilding The Bible: Part 2

“When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey. That journey was recorded over a thousand-year span of time, by different writers, with different personalities, at different times, under different circumstances, and for different reasons.”

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Rewilding The Bible: From Rule Keeping to Wisdom

“When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey. That journey was recorded over a thousand-year span of time, by different writers, with different personalities, at different times, under different circumstances, and for different reasons.”

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