• Home
  • Talks
  • Leadership Team
  • Contact
MHBC
  • Home
  • Talks
  • Leadership Team
  • Contact

James's blog

Contradictions

13/3/2020

2 Comments

 
The bible is full of contradictions, they say.
Ok: here's one. Moses and God spoke face to face but wasn't allowed to see God face, because if he did he would die.
Some people will no doubt see this as yet another reason to write the Bible off.
But for those of us who know God, it's the only sort of language we can use. We need words to describe a God who is present everywhere and revealing himself everywhere, yet who so often appears to be hidden. We need words to describe a God who is approachable yet scary. We need words to describe a God who sees our frailty, weakness and sin and tells us that this is the place we can be strong. We need words to describe a God who has great power, yet whose power is shown in his Son being crucified. 
In the end, there are no words. They run out long before we can make sense of God. 
​I want to see God face to face. I believe I can. But then, maybe not too close ....
2 Comments

Just suppose ...

6/3/2020

1 Comment

 
Just suppose, Moses hadn't gone over to the burning bush. What would have happened?
Silly question - we don't know. Nobody knows what might have been.
Yet I can't help thinking that God engineered things to persuade him to come over. God revealed himself indirectly and waited for Moses to make the next move.
I think this happens quite a lot. God makes the first move and waits for us to make the second one. I see a lot of that in the Bible.
So let's try and keep our eyes open. Maybe God will make a first move for us, that we really don't want to miss.

1 Comment

    Archives

    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Mills Hill Baptist Church 

​Discovering God Together



Sunday Services

Recordings of services are on the Mills Hill Baptist Church Facebook page. 
Please use the link on the home page to access them any time,

Email

millshillbaptist@gmail.com
Mills Hill Road, Middleton, Manchester M24 2FD   Tel. 07496 161 231
  • Home
  • Talks
  • Leadership Team
  • Contact