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Paul Coulter
God's greatest gift: 2. Mary – the well wrapped gift (Luke 1:26-56; 2:6-7)
There is an art to wrapping Christmas presents and I don’t have it! My wife does. What she can do with a sheet of paper, a ribbon and a...
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Paul Coulter
Nov 27, 20152 min read
God's greatest gift: 1. Joseph – the delivery man (Matthew 1:18-25; 2:13-15,19-23)
In the nativity plays Joseph is often a bit of an ‘extra’ – it’s not quite clear what he’s for. Admittedly, he didn’t have a part...
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Paul Coulter
Nov 27, 20152 min read
New Series: God’s greatest gift – Introduction
It’s not even December and I can’t escape the constant chitter chatter about what to get for Christmas. My children are running around...
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Paul Coulter
Nov 20, 20153 min read
Psalm 19 – The God who speaks in silence and words
Silence and speech; emptiness and meaning. These may seem like opposites, but Psalm 19 suggests otherwise. In this psalm, one of the...
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Paul Coulter
Nov 13, 20154 min read
Psalm 16 – Threefold delight
Contentment is a rare quality. Personally speaking, I struggle a lot with restlessness – a feeling that I’ve not yet settled down and...
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Paul Coulter
Nov 6, 20153 min read
Psalm 13 – Frustration, fear and faith
The psalms are chronicles of the human heart. They express the movements of emotion that typify the human experience as the writers pour...
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Paul Coulter
Oct 30, 20153 min read
Psalm 9 – Would the real God please stand up?
The concept of the ‘god complex’ was first described by British psychoanalyst Ernest Jones. He argued that some people had such an...
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Paul Coulter
Oct 22, 20153 min read
Psalm 8 – Humankind: puny yet majestic
Human beings occupy an interesting place in the universal scale of size. We sit somewhere in the middle of the range of organisms we can...
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Paul Coulter
Oct 15, 20153 min read
Psalm 3 – One man with God is always a majority
Although I’ve never seen it, apparently there is an inscription on the Reformation Wall (a monument to reformers) in Geneva that reads:...
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Paul Coulter
Oct 8, 20153 min read
Psalm 2 – Refuge in the eye of the storm
The second psalm contrasts with the first in that it expands the horizon way beyond the contrast between individuals that Psalm 1...
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Paul Coulter
Oct 1, 20153 min read
Psalm 1 – The virtue of going nowhere
Permanence is undervalued in our culture. Move with the times, change with the seasons, go with the flow are the themes of this age. ...
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Paul Coulter
Sep 24, 20152 min read
Songs of faith – introduction
This week’s blog post is later in the day than normal and will be fairly brief. It starts a new series in which I’m planning to look at...
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Paul Coulter
Jul 16, 20155 min read
God’s Writing 7: Restoration
This series has followed a journey through salvation history by considering references in the Bible to God’s writing. We have seen how...
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Paul Coulter
Jul 9, 20155 min read
God’s Writing 6: Transformation
The gospel has sometimes been truncated in an unhelpful way. It is sometimes told as if it ends with the forgiveness of our sins, the...
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Paul Coulter
Jul 2, 20156 min read
God’s Writing 5: Forgiveness
So far in this series we have seen God writing in creation, in providence, in revelation and in judgement. God’s standard of justice is...
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Paul Coulter
Jun 25, 20155 min read
God’s Writing 4: Judgement
Readers of the Bible might be forgiven for thinking that Israel was at the centre of history in the centuries before Christ, but in...
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Paul Coulter
Jun 18, 20155 min read
God’s Writing 3: Revelation
So far in this series I have written about God’s ‘writing’ in creation (biologically through DNA and morally through the conscience) and...
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Paul Coulter
Jun 11, 20156 min read
God’s Writing 2: Providence
In our home group this week one of the younger members asked the question: “Does God decide everything that is going to happen to us?” ...
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Paul Coulter
Jun 4, 20154 min read
God’s Writing 1: Creation
At the root of the mysteries of the human body lies an amazing chemical called DNA. It is the stuff genes are made of, its sequence...
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Paul Coulter
May 28, 20152 min read
New Series - God's Writing: Introduction
Writing is a distinctively human skill. It has no equivalent in the behaviour of any animal species. It allows ideas to be recorded and...
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