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07 Feb 2020
Torah Portion: Exodus 10:1-13:16 Bo (‘Go’) The account of Moses battling it out with Pharaoh for Israel’s liberation is well known, though perhaps the subtleties of the ‘negotiations’ are less so. To Pharaoh the request to let God’s people go, simple in itself, would have begged a lot of practical…
07 Feb 2020
Torah Portion: Exodus 10:1-13:16 Bo (‘Go’) The account of Moses battling it out with Pharaoh for Israel’s liberation is well known, though perhaps the subtleties of the ‘negotiations’ are less so. To Pharaoh the request to let God’s people go, simple in itself, would have begged a lot of practical…
31 Jan 2020
A selection of the week's happenings to aid your prayers.
31 Jan 2020
Torah portion: Exodus 6:2-9:35 Va’era (‘And I appeared’) In this week’s Torah portion, God gives a wonderful invitation through Moses to the Children of Israel: to know Him by name. God had ‘appeared’ to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as the All-Sufficient God, El Shaddai, but He did not make Himself…
24 Jan 2020
A selection of the week's happenings to aid your prayers.
24 Jan 2020
Torah Portion: Exodus 1:1-6:1 Sh'mot (‘Names’) God made a covenant with Abraham that was stated in exact terms. Among its promises was that Abraham's descendants would inherit the Land of Canaan. Canaan was Noah's grandson whom Noah had cursed for the sin of his son, Ham (Gen 9:22-25). Living under…
17 Jan 2020
Torah Portion: Genesis 47:28-50:26 Vayechi ('And he lived') We live by the blessing of God. It is in the hand of God alone to bless and, when He does, nothing can reverse it. Joseph held steady to the Lord during all the years of hardship under Potiphar and then in…
17 Jan 2020
1. Series introduction 2. Basic assumptions of the Greek worldview 3. Humanism: the fruit of a Greco-Roman worldview 4. Walking by human philosophy vs walking with God 5. Greek influences on Christian theology 6. A Hebraic worldview must lead to a Hebraic lifestyle
