Posts Tagged: ‘Genesis’

All We Like Sheep

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during September 2026]

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53 v6 [NKJV]

As a general rule, people do not take kindly to being likened to sheep. However, there are some semblances which help to justify the description. Like sheep, we prefer to move with the crowd, we tend to repeat our mistakes and we often think the grass is greener elsewhere.
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News Has Consequences

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during September 2026]

He will not be afraid of evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
Psalm 112 v7 [NKJV]

So much of the content of our daily news bulletins is ‘evil tidings’ or, in contemporary terms, bad news. It is often said that bad news travels faster than good news, an observation that was first expressed in a literary context as long ago as the 16th century.[1] Perhaps the oxymoron of a ‘good gossip’ helps to perpetuate the hypothesis.
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God the Father

[This reflection by Helen Ruffhead was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 06/Sep/2026]

A few weeks ago we looked at God the Father in our sermon series. When Jesus talked about God as Father he was showing how intimately God knows us and loves us. In a recent article, Dazz shared how being a father had helped him to understand more of God’s love for him. I found the same when I became a parent.
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Contributor: Helen Ruffhead
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At the Seaside

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during August 2026]

God called the dry ground ‘land’, and the gathered waters he called ‘seas’. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1 v10 [NIVUK]

In many parts of the northern hemisphere, August is considered a holiday month. The areas where the land and the sea meet are often very popular with holidaymakers with their visions of sandy beaches, calm waves and refreshing breezes. Hoteliers, caterers and ice-cream vendors exploit those attractions knowing that their customers will not count the cost until they get home.
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Here Comes the Sun

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during August 2026]

And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years’. God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.
Genesis 1 v14,16 [NIVUK]

One day last week a large proportion of the population of western Europe spent the evening staring at the sun. They were expecting to see the sun disappear, hopefully only temporarily. Such was the anticipation of this event that some hotels in Spain and Iceland were booked as long as four years ago.
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A Hot Topic

[A ‘Tuesday Challenge‘ originally prepared for the congregation of Horley Baptist Church during June 2026]

And when the south wind blows, you say, “It’s going to be hot,” and it is.
Luke 12 v55 [NIVUK]

In the northern hemisphere the longest daily period of daylight hours has passed and, although we may not notice it yet, the evenings are starting their slow transition to winter darkness.
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