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Let’s start by talking about ‘groups’ in life. And when I say groups, I mean friend groups, working groups, gangs, sororities, frats, Freemasons, book clubs, committees, church groups, tennis clubs, country clubs, etc. Groups don’t really exist. I mean, they are a thing, of course, but a fabricated thing. Held together by people’s notions. Take for example that friend group you had a few years ago, where is it now? Or that BFF from school? Or that project group that were ‘so close’? I don’t mean to be cynical here. Not at all. Just trying to get back to those elements in ...

Essays: On Love Evidence for Life on Earth Violent God in the Bible On Singing to God (Worship) Guilt, Shame, Regret and Redemption Where Things Land Universal Damnation Women in Leadership in the Bible Contradictions in the Bible For Everything Else

(Excerpt from the Introduction) We find ourselves here without a map! Where do we go? What way do we take? What is life’s purpose? Where is it going? In this short book I want to share with you a ‘map’ that God has given us. We don’t have to be lost. We were made by God, and he has provided us with guidance for this life, and for all eternity. He did not leave us alone – even though it can feel like that sometimes.

It’s the ‘in-between’ time. So much of it. More of it than not. Packing. Unpacking. Sorting. Cleaning up before, cleaning up after. Paperwork. Contingencies. Repairs. More repairs. Returns. Check-ups. Follow-ups. Waiting. Rushing. Getting from this end to that end. Gearing up. Psyching up. Getting through. Trying to wind down. Wondering. Wandering. This, my friend, is not an attitude. This is simply reality. The stats. The breakdown of the clock each day. God said it would be like this. Check out these verses, and then let’s consider… ‘God said to Adam, ‘Because you ate from ...

176 blog posts, 2014-2020. Each with a URL and QR code for easy sharing. Over the last 6 years I have enjoyed posting reflections about Jesus Christ, and his life-changing Gospel. We write on ‘paper’, and indeed the Bible is a ‘written Word’. But Jesus Christ is the ‘Word made flesh’ (John 1:14), and He came to come alive in your heart by His Spirit – the Word off the page...

Jesus – ‘God with us’ (Matthew 1:23) – came to be ‘to’ and ‘through’ us. This is a gift from God. He refreshes our soul, and then flows through us to the world around us. He gives us purpose, power, direction – every day, now and forevermore. Jesus gave people not only truth to believe, but paths to follow, and Spirit to minister. He told us that believing in him, streams of living water would flow – not just over us, to refresh us, but from within us, to water life around us. ‘… life that is truly life.’ (1 Timothy 6:19) Cover photo by Jack Walker: @jack.dw

‘God, don’t leave us here!’ My friend, Brian, had whispered this prayer the night before. Just outside his door there had been a violent, cold-blooded fight. Many against one, kicking the young guy unconscious. Brian’s one line resonated with my soul. It expressed my own heart’s cry at many times, with many feelings of fear in this world. After hearing Brian put this cry into words, it was a prayer I whispered many times after that. It's OK to pray like this. It’s OK to feel like this. Prayers in the Bible press even harder: ‘How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How ...

Collection of 14 essays, and named after the most important essay in the collection. I hope you enjoy these reflections, and that they encourage you in your faith in Jesus Christ. (Matthew 6:22) www.1peter1three.weebly.com

In this short book I work in reverse order. I begin by sharing where I’m at now in dealing with cults, and then I work back to explain how I got to this place over the years. I share some personal experiences and key Scriptures, which have helped me grow in this area and find a footing in dealing with cults. I focus mainly on the core and common error of them all, i.e. denying the true identity of Jesus, and therefore the true message of the gospel. (2 Corinthians 11:4) Let me define a cult very simply here: Any offshoot of Christianity that denies the identity of Jesus, and adds that you...

God looks for you. He searches for you. Jesus notices when you’re not there, and he leaves the crowd, the event, to find you. I hope God’s words and love come off these pages and stay with you, as ‘spirit and life’. (Excerpt) Introduction: To heal the blind man, Jesus spat in the ground, made a paste in the mud, and smeared this mud in the sockets of the man’s eyes. He asked the man if he could see. Not clearly, he said. Jesus put his hands on him again to finish this work of healing.[1] It is also interesting that Jesus did this in private (took the man ‘outside the village’)...

You can only see what you see. This sounds obvious, but determines everything. What you see determines where you go and what you do. Do you see a path ahead? You see it, therefore you head in that direction. You don’t see it, you go elsewhere… Do you ‘see’ value or meaning in this career? You ‘go’ in that direction. You invest, study, sacrifice, meet up with… The light in your eyes – your physical eyes – gets you out of the woods, the literal woods. And the light in your mind, in your heart, connects you to life choices and relationships.

Peter Walker and his family live in NC, USA. For more on the author, please visit: www.1peter1three.weebly.com Contents: 4 Thoughts on Joseph, The Best Translation of the Bible, Ever!, Living Hope, What Is True Repentance?, Mark 1 – Five Points, Some, Loving God, Using Talent!, Kingdom Construction, Good God?, Feeling Pressure to be Rad’ for Jesus?, False Dimensions, Now I Know You Love Me, Grace, Yes!, My Healed Land: A Reflection, Suffering and a Good God, Poverty Wealth & Jesus Christ, Christ’s ‘Actual’ Blood?, This Side of Evil

(excerpt from the text) '... This is critical, my friends, the issue of what we can and do know regarding sin andsuffering, and what we don’t and can’t know. We got to stay in our ‘truth’ lane.There will be paradoxes in our understanding, and therefore (hopefully!) inour communications and interactions with people. This is good! In some areasof God’s revelation, to be true to it, we must be limited, this far and no further, thisclear and no clearer… We’re called to weep with those who weep, not to tell themthat God ordained the disaster, and has a plan in it. If that truly ...

Jesus called his followers to share his message with others. ‘The Holy Spirit will testify about me, but you also must testify, because you have been with me.’ (John 15:26-27) His message, his ‘good news’, being his own name and person: ‘God with us.’ (Matthew 1:23) God has come. His name is Jesus Christ. He paid for our sin by his own death. He came back to life. He calls us to turn away from our sin, to believe in him. If we do this, we will be forgiven, and live forever with God. This is the message that messengers brought to you and me. And this is the message that we are to...

Jesus asked us to have faith in him. He did not just want ‘belief’, he wanted faith. Faith is a mysterious thing. In this short booklet we’ll consider what Jesus really meant by asking us to have faith, and how to take that step of faith. At the end of this booklet there are ten journal reflections, so you can consider some words of Jesus and write down your own thoughts. Let’s get started!

The purpose of life, for every man, woman and child, is to reach out and find God. To know him – now and forevermore. ‘God created all people, so that they would search for him, reach out for him and find him.’ (Acts 17:25-27) And this last verse ends by saying: ‘And he is not far from each one of us.’ Is it time in your life to seek God, and find him? Is it time in your life to make peace with God, now and forevermore? Jesus said, ‘I am the door…’ (John 10:9)

Do you find it hard to separate your relationship with Jesus from your relationship with your parents?When you think of faith in Jesus, do you think – and feel – many things to do with people, and not God? Like people using the Lord’s name to get you to be disciplined, to be ‘good’, to be honest, to go to church, to tithe your money, to feel bad, to say sorry, to not really enjoy…?This booklet is purposed to help you find your own true identity in Jesus, and see just how separately and uniquely you stand – both as an individual, and as a follower of Christ. I hope this booklet...

God has put eternity in the hearts of all people. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) When we open the door of our hearts to Jesus Christ, he moves through our mind and our spirits, now and forevermore. In the Scriptures God has given us access to the deep things of his truth and his own Spirit. In this booklet I share some thoughts and Scriptures to help us know more of God - not only in word and thoughts, but in 'spirit and truth'. (John 4:24)

The most religious and powerful people in Jesus’ time, well, we don’t even know their names. Their glory faded with them. And yet the poor, the uneducated and nameless, well, we know them, their legacy if not their names, and they have changed history. It’s not what they did, but rather what Jesus did for them. You see, when Jesus honors a person, that honor is true legacy. We want to know them, and be known by them, because Jesus honored them. A prostitute who had been healed, one day poured perfume on the head of Jesus. His own disciples, the famous twelve and others, rebuked her, ...

(Excerpt from the Introduction) I remember watching on the news the unfolding fate of a guy on death row. There was only about an hour left till execution. It was clear this guy was innocent. As I watched and listened, I jumped on my computer and wrote an email to the Governor of the State, imploring him to pick up the phone and put this one on hold. I said he didn’t want blood on his hands with such an obvious miscarriage of justice. Nothing. Six o’clock came and went. Ten minutes later the guy was dead. I get through a lot in life by looking at the clock and knowing that by this or ...