Bible Study
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David’s Mighty Men
Sometimes I feel it is rather harsh to label people as ‘small people’ in the Bible, as if we ourselves are the big names and we just happened to go sifting through scripture, found a crumb of a person, and tried to understand who they were and what they were about. I don’t mean that… Continue reading
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The Shunammite Woman
(image: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Elisha and the Shunammite woman, 1649) One reason I believe why Instagram has been so popular is that anybody can look important. Anybody can put up a video and act as an expert in anything. People who would otherwise live in relative obscurity can have a ‘platform’ if they wished.… Continue reading
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Joanna, Wife of Chuza
Joanna of Chuza always fascinated me, not least because she had a pretty name. She first was introduced as one of the women healed by Jesus in Luke 8. She was also one of the first witnesses to the empty tomb on Resurrection Sunday in Luke 24 (depicted by the image above). She has been… Continue reading
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Jabez and his answered prayer
In almost every Bible study I’ve been to, I have come away thinking, I really should pray more, pray better. That is a good thing. But how do I know if I’m doing it right? Sometimes, I really wish there was a golden standard against which I can measure my prayers. 7/10? Good enough, could… Continue reading
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Exit Stage Right
I love a Biblical love story. In a sense, the whole bible is a love story in that God pursues people, that people are invited and embraced and built up purely from His extravagant grace. But I am especially amazed by the love story that took place between Isaac and Rebekah. Instead of describing the… Continue reading
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Hope Hidden – Jehoiada and Jehosheba
Lots of action can get lost in the books of Kings and Chronicles. Kings and nations being in sin. People not following God. Everything is bad. We are all waiting for Jesus. In one sense, the pining for Christ is truly palpable. After all, God had promised a Messiah, but reality did not seem to… Continue reading
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Being ‘available’
Time seems constantly to be both abundant and scarce when you’re a stay at home mum. You start the day with a to-do list of a few meagre inconsequential things, and suddenly it’s 9am and you’ve changed 5 nappies, did breakfast, washed up, cleaned the floors, put away laundry, and started dinner, and it doesn’t… Continue reading
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Small stories – Bezalel and Oholiab
featured image source: yearinthebible.com A few weeks ago I wrote about the worthiness of “stories about little things”. These little stories, little snippets that leave wide margins for awe, wonder, and imagination. Bezalel and Oholiab are the first two people with small stories that I’d like to explore. If you haven’t heard of their names… Continue reading
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The comfort of insignificance
I’ve always been drawn to little and inconsequential things – stories of ordinary people, not changing the world, nor going through any dramatic transition, just letting life and all its colourful ideas (or tragic happenstance) come and pass. I adore also the stories where more ink is spilled over the leaves, the petals, the soil,… Continue reading
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The Unhestitatingly Speedy Pace of Life
I sit on the train hurtling down the English countryside on our way down to London to visit family. Hurtling seems to be the word characterising my entire existence this season: hurried lunches wolfed down in between meetings and tasks, intensely deep conversations explored between two souls between the one-hour-limit of our appointment, plans scribbled… Continue reading
the migrant wife 