Grant Thorpe

  • Pride

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    Pride God walked In the cool of day To visit Eve and Adam And found them Hiding Pride of rivaling God And knowing good and evil, When God drew near, Had made them Tremble God came, and comes, to prideful us Seeking out our hiding places To honour us with his word Of death to…

  • Knowledge of God

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    Knowledge of God Knowing of God we have together… What else when God is love One Father delighting in his Son—the crucified And pouring out for him A blessing on the world And we, endowed in him His Brothers, Bride and Body Receiving in our flesh His Spirit. What else when, together, we are Sealed…

  • Does God Hurry ?

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    Does God Hurry ? Does God hurry? Does he scurry? Is he ever in a rush? He has so many things to do while Looking after us. It seems to me the things I want Should happen in a hurry. There’s always more that could be done So surely God must worry. But our Father…

  • Conscience

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    Conscience Ah conscience tutored in the ways of Rightness Practiced in the ways of Rectitude Raging until each aberration Is made good And raging too until Each thought is Pure and steady Ah conscience never satisfied Working on until The flesh is limp and Mind exhausted Urging on to kingdoms that will Compensate and camouflage…

  • A God So Near ~ Deuteronomy 4 ~ 9 August 2015

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    There are times when God comes to reason with us. ‘Have I been God to you? Have I done anything worthy of note?’ These are the questions Moses asks Israel as they stand poised between Sinai and their promised land. We tend to live in the light of things that can be seen and controlled…

  • Ready for God – Ready to Live ~ 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 ~ 8 Frebruary 2015

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    What answer do we have for those who think a Christian’s life is dowdy, defeatist and unsuccessful? Some so-called smart teachers in Corinth are saying that Paul and his message are inferior to what they have to offer. This is much the same as the atheists and sceptics are saying about us Christians now! Paul…

  • Christian Basics

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    By Grant Thorpe Christian Basics is a series of studies on the truths that are essential for our relationship with the living God, ourselves, and others. The studies are centred around the theme of God’s call to man, and show not only how man is called from darkness to light, but how he is to…

  • Justification – Seen Or Unseen? – Galatians 4:21-5:1 – 26 October 2014

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    We Christians can easily turn from faith in Christ to faith in something we can see to make us feel we are OK—like the early Christians who were tempted to trust in Jerusalem. Paul says this takes us straight back into the slavery we escaped when we first trusted in Christ. He proves his point…

  • God Says What Lasts – Daniel 2 – 17 August 2014

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    It’s easy to be happy with short term success but it’s the big picture that counts. When Daniel is shown the content and meaning of his king’s dream, he is deeply thankful, but not just because he can now save his own neck. The dream assures him that God will bring Babylon to and end,…

  • Down, But Not Out – Daniel 1 – 10 August 2014

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    Jesus announced that all authority was given to him, in heaven and earth. How does this translate into daily experience when the world around seems to pull all the strings and take all the credit for our way of life? Has Christianity been upstaged? Shall we mount a campaign against our culture? Rather, Daniel shows…