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Word for the Week

The Frustration of Dependence

At Kerith, Elijah was dependent on the direct provision of God. In Zarephath, he became dependent on a poor Gentile widow. Elijah was by nature a doer – a passionate man who liked to take and hold the initiative. What was God teaching him? What might he be teaching us?

This week’s Word for the Week can be read here.

 

For nearly ten years, LICC’s free weekly email service – Word for the Week – has provided a short reflection on a passage from the Bible, noted for their profundity-in-brevity as well as being earthed in real-life contexts. Many of these are now available in an archive, including the 50 emails in the ‘Whole Life, Whole Bible’ series, which seeks to show how whole-life discipleship is woven through the story of Scripture as a whole, from the garden of Genesis to the city of Revelation.

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