Shayne on December 31st, 2006

Now, we are at the end of the year – time to take stock of what has happened during the year – lessons learnt; and, hopefully we can say that our relationship with God has grown stronger and deeper (in love and trust).
I like a lot of what Selwyn has to say – especially the [...]

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Shayne on December 30th, 2006

Second last day of the year – and Selwyn starts to summarise what he has been writing about for the last few days. (Has it been a good year for you?)
He writes: “If Christ’s second coming is not something which will never happen, nor something which has already happened, nor something which is always happening [...]

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Shayne on December 29th, 2006

We spend another day with Selwyn looking at the question; is death Christ’s coming? The answer is ‘No’. To use the verse (John 21:22); ‘Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”‘, as evidence for the second advent re Jesus coming to a believer at the [...]

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Shayne on December 28th, 2006

We now look at another false teaching. Today, Selwyn looks at the claim: ‘Christ is always coming back … (He) is always coming into human hearts and into human history.’ While the last sentence is true it is not the ’second’ coming of Christ.
In a way I don’t really understand why anyone who reads Scripture [...]

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Shayne on December 27th, 2006

Selwyn continues to look at the misunderstandings concerning the return of our God – Jesus.
He writes: “Some believe that Jesus has already come back. … His coming in the presence of the Spirit (at Pentecost), however, is quite different to His personal and visible return, which is predicted repeatedly in Scripture. So many predictions of [...]

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Shayne on December 26th, 2006

Selwyn now moves on to another of God’s great surprises.
He says: ‘We end our consideration of some of the ways in which we are ’surprised by God’ by looking at a surprise that is still in the future. I refer to the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. … There seems to be a [...]

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Shayne on December 25th, 2006

Christmas Day – it was nice – with close family – time to relax and reflect on what is the highest priority in our lives.
I like Selwyn comments in today’s study: God came down to us, ‘Archbishop William Temple expalined it like this: “There are just two types of religion. The one type tries to [...]

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