Shayne on September 30th, 2007

I think Selwyn’s study speaks for itself – as I said yesterday I think that throughout history philosophers have tried to define what is ’self’. This is where I agree with Selwyn, any definition which does not involve our relationship with God, is deficient.
He says: ” … any attempt to deal with the self outside [...]

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Shayne on September 29th, 2007

I guess the question; ‘Who are you?’ allows us to focus on what we see as being uniquely ‘us’. We can also look at this question by asking an observer, perhaps a friend ’ Who is this person?’ This is the external ‘you’, that people experience when they interact with you in various ways – when people [...]

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Shayne on September 28th, 2007

Today, Selwyn looks at another ‘tough saying of Jesus (Luke 9:23-24): “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.” This is perhaps one of [...]

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Shayne on September 26th, 2007

If you think about it this is almost, a too hard to believe, verse (Matthew 20:28); ” … the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve  …. “   Jesus is our God who created everything, what we can see and can’t see; including the substance and laws of physics (gravity, [...]

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Shayne on September 25th, 2007

I agree with Selwyn’s introduction: ” … the lesson Jesus tries to teach the disciples (and all who follow Jesus) – that greatness lies in serving and not in being served – is one of the hardest to learn.”
We tend to look up to those who are leaders of government, business empires,  fashion, media (including movie [...]

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Shayne on September 24th, 2007

We join with Selwyn in looking at John 13:16 for another day. I liked his view that bending down to wash another’s feet, involves obedient service and is different to the world’s view of only providing a service if it’s in the person’s interest. I also liked the last two sentences, of today’s study: “As we become [...]

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Shayne on September 23rd, 2007

We now move onto the next tough saying of Jesus. The particular verse, Selwyn now looks at is John 13:16; “No servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.’ It comes after Jesus has washed the disciples feet, normally a servant would undertake this task and it [...]

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