Life and Faith

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  • Day 14 – You Are Relational

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    “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles. Now all the believers were together and held all things in common. They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all,…

  • Day 13 – You Are A Follower

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    “Come, follow me…” (Matthew 4:19) A disciple is someone who follows another. When Jesus was hanging around earth in human form he collected 12 disciples. Each one he called to follow him, and as they travelled with him they got to know him more and more. This was typical of the day. Rabbi’s, Jewish teachers…

  • Day 12 – You Are Made For Good Works

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    “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at…

  • Day 11 – You Are A Slave

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    “…and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:27-28) The bible pictures being a servant of Jesus in extremely strong language. In the New Testament the use…

  • Day 10 – You Are A Child of God

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    “…through faith you are all sons (and daughters) of God in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:26) Have you ever spent time thinking about time before you were even born? It’s weird, isn’t it? It’s weird to think that life existed before you were born, and that your parents had a life without you. As weird as…

  • Day 9 – You Are Chosen

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    “Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ. For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus…

  • Day 8 – You Are Free

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    “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus, because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2) “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2 Corinthians 3:17) The movie ‘Room’, adapted…

  • Day 7 – You Are Saved

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    “For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—not from works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9) We’ve been looking at the guts of the Christian faith over the past week and now come to this idea of ‘being saved’. I don’t tend to use…

  • Day 6 – You Are Loved

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    “God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.” (1 John 4:9-10) In recent weeks Ed…

  • Day 5 – You Are Redeemed

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    “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45) The world, and its people, cry out in pain. One particular aspect of this pain is the sex trafficking industry, which sees millions of young boys and girls trapped in a cycle…