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  Worshipping in All of Life | Standing Firm

  For the director of music. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge.     How then can you say to me:     ‘Flee like a bird to your mountain. For look, the wicked bend their bows;     they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows     at the upright in heart’ … For the LORD is righteous,     he loves justice;     the upright will see his face. Psalm 11:1–2, 7 – David’s in trouble again. Enemies are lurking, waiting to attack. Society is crumbling before his eyes. ‘Quick! Get out of h...

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  Worshipping in All of Life | In the Wilderness

  For the director of music. To the tune of ‘Do Not Destroy.’ Of David. A miktam. When he had fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me,     for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings     until the disaster has passed. Psalm 57:1–2 – On the run from Saul in the wilderness, fearing for his life and hiding in caves, David is hated and hunted prey. Naturally, he doesn’t hold back from telling it like it really is. It’s a ‘disaster’. ‘I’m in the midst of li...

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  Worshipping in All of Life | Safe Hands

  In you, LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness… Love the LORD, all his faithful people! The LORD preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD. Psalm 31:1, 23–24 – ‘My times are in your hands’, declares David. And for decades, David’s times were fraught with life-threatening danger. In 53 of his 75 psalms he mentions enemies. Time and again David turns to God. Time and again God is there for him. ...

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  Culture Making with God | The Gospel in Consummation

  ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’ – the things God has prepared for those who love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? B...

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  Culture Making with God | The Gospel in Church

  ‘Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptised with water, but in a few days you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit. … You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.’ Acts 1:4b–5, 8 God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are theref...

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  Culture Making with God | The Gospel in Christ

  ‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’ … Jesus began by saying to them, ‘Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.’ Luke 4:18–19, 21 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world...

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  Culture Making with God | The Gospel in Covenant

  The LORD had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.’ So Abram went, as the LORD had told him … Genesis 12:1–4a — As we journey into the wasteland with Jesus this Lent, we’re letting go of the dead-end of sin-management, w...

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  Culture Making with God | The Gospel Amid Corruption

  Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’ Genesis 3:8–9 ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.’ But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. Genesis 11:4–5 — ‘...

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  Culture Making with God | The Gospel in Creation

  The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him… God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. COLOSSIANS 1:15-16, 19-20 — As we enter Lent this year, what d...

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  Revelation: Faithfulness in Testing Times | Where Do You Think You’re Going?

  One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates… The city does not need the sun or...

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