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Hey everyone, So yesterday I had some spare time and I was just (wasting it lol) spending it laying on my bed, on top of the covers, pretty much doing nothing but daydreaming, thinking about nothing important really. In fact, what I was thinking about was something rather silly, I was imagining being on one […]
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Hey! Here’s a whistle stop tour of why Christians sing in church: A History of Christian Worship The early church was comprised of Jews who had accepted Jesus as the promised Messiah. Therefore, to understand what contemporary Christian worship is and why it is there, one must look at historical Jewish worship, as this is […]
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Hey everyone I dug into the archives of my laptop to find some old notes I made about things. Here’s something I wrote in August 2011, just before I graduated First Class (heh!) from my degree! The conclusions are from 2019! The story of Adams rib was more important than you think. God put […]
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Hey everybody, You can watch the summary above 😀 Today I am going to talk about something that Jesus showed me when I was reading Luke the other day, how the devil tempts men in particular. Let’s look at the passage I was reading, Jesus’ words are highlighted in red, the devil in bold: (Luke […]
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Hello everybody, A serious one today. I have been meditating on when Jesus is going to come back and judge the world. Jesus is all around us and always has been but Jesus came once in a way that everyone could see to save us by taking the penalty of our sin, which was death, […]
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Hey hey hey! I promised you something a little more deep last week so here it is enjoy! I think that the “Christian” culture within the African-Caribbean diaspora that are descendents of slaves and live within Anglo-America (England and America), is flawed. I do not think that it is Christianity at all. It makes African-Caribbean […]
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Hello everybody this is Part 2 of the thing I’m doing on Genesis 1 & 2, If you missed Part 1 it’s worth a read 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Think About When #Reading#Genesis #Chapter 1 – #Bible #Christianity #Jesus #PhD (follow this link to read it here). Secondly, I’ve been writing some more music […]
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Hello everybody! I’ve been reading the Bible again! As I do everyday, as so should you! Lately, as I’ve been doing research for my PhD I’ve been reading the Bible in a pragmatic way, thinking about how it applies to everyday physical life, looking at how Science and Theology can go hand in hand, provided […]
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been thinking about gender issues again, that’s what my PhD is about I’m looking at attitudes towards women worship leaders and that involves looking at intersectionality, that is basically describing looking at overlapping (intersecting) systems of oppression. For example, a person, man or woman, might dislike a women leader […]
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Hello, This week I went for a run in the park and I enjoyed myself quite a lot, you know with all the endorphins that exercise releases. Well it got me thinking, I enjoy exercising (unless I’m on my period, no exercise gets done then, I do eat lots of cake though lol) and I […]
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