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Monday Morning Mail, 3rd June 2013
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Dear all, I'm just back from a week off (and already submerged in work!). On Saturday, Lydia was bridesmaid at the wedding of one of her best friends. As we were away from home, I decided to do something I don't do as much as I used to, but which is well worth doing - I decided to learn a few Bible verses - in this case Psalm 36:7-9, because I was reading Ps 36 that morning anyway. Learning stuff by rote isn't very fashionable these days - after all we can access pretty much any information we want at the touch of a button and so if I ever wanted to know what those verses say it wouldn't be difficult to find out. But even without modern technology, I've still got a Bible within reach most of the time, and I can read fairly well, so what's the point of learning verses? One of the great strengths of learning verses is that it helps truths come to mind more often, which helps me to think about them and pray them. Yes, I know I can find out what Ps 36:7-9 are ea...
Mapperley Monday Mail - Meditating....
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John
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Good morning! Yesterday at St Jude's we began a new short series looking at some of the basic "how to"s of the Christian life and we started by looking at probably the number one habit recommended in the Bible – meditating on Scripture . Christian meditation is different from Buddhist meditation; the point of Buddhist meditation is to empty yourself because they see desires as fundamentally wrong and the aim of life as nirvana. Christian meditation might start with emptying yourself (and it sometimes does) but it is with the aim of being filled by God and his word. The word used in Psalm 1 for meditation is literally "muttering": Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who mutters his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water...
Merry Christmas......have a wonderful day.
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