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NLT's Mosaic releases today!
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009NLT’s Holy Bible: Mosaic launches today and ‘is about helping you encounter Christ in a deep and authentic way, through insight from every continent and century of the Christian Church. Historical and contemporary art and writings from across the globe offer a depth of Scriptural wisdom and understanding as you read and reflect on God’s word. Mosaic is arranged so that every week has variety of content for reading and reflection. Each week follows a theme appropriate to the Church season (such as Advent, Easter, etc). The content included for each week includes full-color art; Scripture readings; a historical reading; a contemporary reading; a prayer, creed, hymn or quote; and space for reflection.
(In the spirit of full disclosure, this blog post might just win me a copy, hence the post being somewhat advertorial in tone! That said, I was an NLT user before)
What a man is
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Prayer rubs us against God
Monday, September 21st, 2009Prayer rubs us against God. Our internal alignment changes. The magnetic attraction of Christ draws us to some things and pushes us away from others. We retain our individuality; we are still totally ourselves … but with a new polarity. Contact with God makes you – yes, you – godly. His will and your will begin to dovetail, to blend. The good which you want and the good which God wills mesh.
Why Don’t I Get What I Pray For? by John Cowart
Leave your native country
Sunday, September 20th, 2009In amongst family, friends and church, I am trying to make sure that I do a little personal bible study each weekend. At the moment, I’m working my way through the LifeGuide Bible Study entitled Faith: Depending On God. This weekend’s study was ‘Abraham: Faith Under Construction’ and focuses on Genesis 12:1-9.
The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.” So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan, Abram traveled through the land as far as Shechem. There he set up camp beside the oak of Moreh. At that time, the area was inhabited by Canaanites. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” And Abram built an altar there and dedicated it to the Lord, who had appeared to him. After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord, and he worshiped the Lord. Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.
Four years ago this week, we moved 18,000kms across the globe with 22 bags, six month visitor’s visas and the faith that we were doing the right thing as a family. Our journey was not in the same league as Abraham’s and was certainly easier in the physical sense. However, studying this passage certainly brought back some of the feelings I experienced as I led my family from our native country to the land we were ‘shown’ and where we hope to be a blessing to others.
We live in deeds, not years
Saturday, September 19th, 2009We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life’s but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things—God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.
The End of Life by Philip James Bailey via midtoad’s tweet of The American Review Vol.2 in Google Books.
Mosaic
Friday, September 18th, 2009Although I’ve just grabbed a new NLT Study Bible to add to my collection, I like the premise of the Holy Bible: Mosaic from Tyndale House Publishers. I have swapped a few tweets with Mosaic’s general editor Keith Williams in recent weeks and notice that he’s just popped out a video overview of Mosaic and its features.