Found 8 resource(s) in 'Looking at God', for February 2025.
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Love in Action! From the Vicar What’s the Big Idea? An Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament: Job Reflecting Faith: Church Buildings Prayers of the Bible: Praying in your Discouragements What you have in common with a woodcarving How do you keep your life going in the right direction? ** Editor: Canon Paul... (2497 words)Love in Action!
‘Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.’ (1 John 3:18). The writer Gary Chapman describes how love can be expressed in 5 different ‘languages’: words of encouragement, quality time, gifts, acts of service and touch. Do you have a preferred language of love? As we think... (296 words)From the Vicar
‘Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.’ (1 John 3:18). The writer Gary Chapman describes how love can be expressed in 5 different ‘languages’: words of encouragement, quality time, gifts, acts of service and touch. Do you have a preferred language of love? As we think... (296 words)What’s the Big Idea? An Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament: Job
‘Why does God allow suffering?’ This is a frequently asked question of Christians, because we believe in a God who is both good and powerful and it is explored in the book of Job. This book is part of the wisdom literature, along with Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. Job was both wealthy and... (290 words)Reflecting Faith: Church Buildings
We have been thinking about different aspects of church buildings. But what about ‘the whole thing’? – the impression you have when you first see a church building? Most of us have visited many church buildings, either to worship or as a tourist: to enjoy the splendour, the colours, the style and the architecture, with or... (282 words)Prayers of the Bible: Praying in your Discouragements
‘Moses said to the Lord, “…I am not able to carry all this people alone, the burden is too heavy for me…”’ Numbers 11:10-15. Moses prayed this prayer in a day of dark depression and discouragement. The opening verses of the chapter relate how divine punishment fell on the people of Israel because they complained... (498 words)What you have in common with a woodcarving
Woodcarving isn’t as straightforward as it seems. You don’t begin with a block of wood; you begin with a piece of paper. The first step is to draw a plan of what you want to carve, and only when you’ve got that right do you start to shape your piece of wood. The carver then... (332 words)How do you keep your life going in the right direction?
‘Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be …successful.’ Joshua 1.8 Any flying instructor will tell you that periodically all aeroplanes need to be ‘trimmed’ or ‘balanced in flight’. After flying through storms... (270 words)
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