If you or I were to ask a handful of people—church folk or otherwise—whether, loosely speaking, they felt or knew that God had spoken to them personally, my guess is that many would say they think it has happened. For staunch Reformed folk, this idea tends to make us uncomfortable (if that’s you, I knowContinue reading “On Personal Revelation”
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Productive Mortification
People put a lot of time into figuring out how to be productive workers. We could use some of the principles of modern self-help productivity gurus to consider how we might productively put to death sin.
That’s what this article is about.
Coffee is life. So why do I like burnt coffee?
I enjoy the unique taste of coffee which makes me a wholly un-unique person. It has a pleasant and interesting taste which differs from cup to cup. I first got into coffee as a nurse. It was a mix of pragmatism, to stave off sleep, and because there was an expectation that nurses drank coffee.Continue reading “Coffee is life. So why do I like burnt coffee?”
Death, Pass over.
Egypt, Judgement was coming. Justice was coming. Death was in the air. But where was mercy to be found when death abounds? Under the blood of a lamb. Blood, upon the door. It writes, this family belongs to the Lord. Death, pass over. But God’s people were slaves. Paying an endless debt to their spitefulContinue reading “Death, Pass over.”
Why Bigvai and Shiphrah?
This is a blog by Robbie and Jemima Nichols, two christians who live in Sydney. We called our blog Bigvai and Shiphrah because for many people these may seem to be obscure names lost in the pages upon pages of people recorded in the Bible. Both of them were members of God’s people, and were evidently knownContinue reading “Why Bigvai and Shiphrah?”
Bigvai and Shiphrah 