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Word for the Week 2007

Welcome to the Word for the Week 2007 archive. Here you’ll find copies of the weekly emails which have provided a source of stimulation, encouragement and challenge to many thousands of people over the last eight years. Read them again, or read them for the first time. A new Word for the Week article is produced every week and is added to this archive, so check back regularly

Learning from Jesus: slaving for you

  • Date:

    28-08-2008

  • Author:

    Helen Parry

When the older son came near the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing… (he) became angry and refused to go in. Luke 15:25, 28

A new beginning?

  • Date:

    18-12-2007

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot and his daughter-in-law Sarai, Abram’s wife, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran they settled there. Genesis 11:31

A purpose beyond our understanding

  • Date:

    17-12-2007

  • Author:

    Helen Parry

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. John 1:14

Paul – a leader taught to serve

  • Date:

    12-12-2007

  • Author:

    Helen Parry

The witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. Acts 7:58

A good boss

  • Date:

    03-12-2007

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

Naomi had a kinsman on her husband’s side, a prominent rich man, whose name was Boaz… Just then Boaz came from Bethlehem. He said to the reapers, ‘The Lord be with you.’ They answered, ‘The Lord bless you.’ Ruth 2:4

Keeping going

Paul – a wasted past?

Chosen to be strangers

A new lifestyle needs new clothes

Citizens of heaven

Learning from Jesus: money, money, money

Learning from Jesus: I want my rights

Finished work

Eyewitness evidence

Full stop

The luxury of choice

The road to recovery

Learning from Jesus: come and join the party

Kindness

Taken for granted

When the lost don’t care

A joint enterprise

Learning from Jesus: a message for absolutely everyone

Learning from Jesus: pointing fingers, throwing stones

Making judgments

Meditating on trees

How to find delight

Learning from Jesus: pro or anti?

Tightrope walking

Daniel and jealousy

Daniel and jealousy

But if not...

Daniel and reality

Resurrection life

Learning from Jesus – an end to slavery?

Uprooted

Supper in an upper room

The Cross and the cross

Ways of seeing

Daniel and the tyrant

Learning from Jesus – who is my neighbour?

Learning from Jesus – total immersion

Collaborating with God

Learning from Jesus – learning to see the truth

Learning from Jesus – the last shall be first

Daniel – engaging with a world

Daniel – living as exiles

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