Idolatry | Gathering up https://wjhoward.co.uk Sun, 17 May 2020 12:15:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 The Idolatry of God https://wjhoward.co.uk/the-idolatry-of-god/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-idolatry-of-god Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:45:58 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=436 Christchurch Parish News, March 2020. Over the last couple of months, we’ve been looking at the first commandment (here and here): the one which tells us not to have any other gods before God (Ex 20:3). As we’ve explored this topic, we’ve seen that we have a deep-seated tendency to root our identity, security, well-being… Read More »The Idolatry of God

The post The Idolatry of God first appeared on Gathering up.]]> First things first https://wjhoward.co.uk/first-things-first/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-things-first Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:41:48 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=427 In last month’s piece about the Ten Commandments, we noted in particular that the one that comes first is that we are to have no other gods than God: ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other… Read More »First things first

The post First things first first appeared on Gathering up.]]> The Order of The Ten Cs https://wjhoward.co.uk/the-order-of-the-ten-cs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-order-of-the-ten-cs Wed, 01 Jan 2020 10:08:00 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=422 The story goes that prior to giving Moses the Ten Commandments on Mt Sinai, God was having second thoughts. He was about to hit the print button but, as happens, there was a problem with the Wi-Fi. Put on hold by the IT department, He started to wonder if the order He’d put them in… Read More »The Order of The Ten Cs

The post The Order of The Ten Cs first appeared on Gathering up.]]> Identity crisis https://wjhoward.co.uk/identity-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=identity-crisis Fri, 01 Jul 2016 18:19:10 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=204 Christchurch Parish News, July 2016

If someone were to ask you, ‘Who are you?’, how would you answer?

The post Identity crisis first appeared on Gathering up.]]> Identity and Baptism in the Digital Age https://wjhoward.co.uk/identity-and-baptism-in-the-digital-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=identity-and-baptism-in-the-digital-age Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:29:22 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=303 Lecture given to the 6th form students at Grey Coat Hospital, 29th June 2016

The post Identity and Baptism in the Digital Age first appeared on Gathering up.]]> Image is everything https://wjhoward.co.uk/image-is-everything/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=image-is-everything Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:01:00 +0000 https://wjhoward.co.uk/?p=234 Christchurch Parish News, December 2014

A short Bible study on Matthew 22:15-22, originally written for the Priory Bible Study Group.

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