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Labour of love

The Christian life is a life of waiting and working. Advent puts us in mind of the waiting.  We look not only to Christ’s first coming, but ahead to His second coming, to judge the living and the dead. Here is how Old Testament saints waited for that first coming: “5 I wait for the […]

Remember the Sabbath day

Where is the world heading?  Climate catastrophes?  Asteroid impact?  Nuclear armageddon?  Global Pandemic?  Cosmic big crunch?  Heat death? Not according to the bible.  In the beginning, God made the world in six days and rested on the seventh.  And ever since, the week has proclaimed to us God’s purposes with the world.  Through His Word […]

God rested

Work to live or live to work?  We know how we should answer that question.  The testimony of our lives is probably another matter.  But let’s ask the question of God – because I reckon our unspoken assumption is that, basically, God lives to work. You see, for many people “Creator” is God’s most basic […]