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Category Archives: Discipleship
Being diligent with the small things.
The Parable of the Bags of Gold – Matthew 25:14-30
In this Parable we read about a man who goes away on a journey and entrusts all of his wealth to his servants. The servants are given wealth in proportion to their ability – their natural strength (v.15). As the story progresses we find that the servant who is trusted with 5 bags of gold puts the money to work and gains five more bags. Similarly the servant who is entrusted with 2 bags of gold puts it to work and earns 2 more bags. Lastly we read of the servant who dug a hole in the ground and buried his master’s money keeping it safe but not putting it to good use.
The servants who earned more gold with their master’s initial investment were spoken highly of and invited to share in his happiness. In contrast the servant who takes his masters money and hides it is called wicked and lazy. He is told off for knowing the character of his master and not putting what he had been given to good use. Continue reading
Doing Form? by Bryony Wells
Form as the ‘easy option’
Last night I shared with the 7pm Gathering the word that God had given me about people not doing form (the discipleship year at St Thomas’) because of pride. Several people spoke to me after the gatherings asking me to unpack a bit of that, I thought therefore that I should write something short for others who God may be speaking to.
God is in Control
A few weeks ago I saw a headline on the front cover of the Sun newspaper, it read like this, ’God is in control’. Obviously being a Christian this caught my attention and my heart. This incredible headline was the response from the fiancée of Fabrice Muamba after his incredible recovery after being dead for nearly 80min.
But it wasn’t just this headline that captured my emotions it was also the hundreds of football players wearing t-shirts with these words printed on them, ‘praying for you Muamba’, ‘pray for Muamba’. But again it did not stop there; thousands of tweets appeared across the Internet and media feeds… Continue reading
Accountability Guide
