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Word for the Week 2008

Welcome to the Word for the Week 2008 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

No Idolatry?

  • Date:

    24-11-2008

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. Exodus 20:4-5

A Fresh Look at the Ten Commandments

  • Date:

    17-11-2008

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:2

Knowing for Certain

  • Date:

    10-11-2008

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. Then the Lord said to him, ‘Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own…’ Genesis 15:12

Paul: An Ever-Expanding Heart

  • Date:

    03-11-2008

  • Author:

    Helen Parry

In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy… It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart. Philippians 1:4, 7

Security and Belonging

  • Date:

    27-10-2008

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

To the holy and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ in Colossae. Colossians 1:2

Coping with harassment

A kiss is just a kiss….

Patience is a virtue!

Paul: money, money, money

Learning to lead

Paul and the man from Macedonia

Paul: hero or model?

What makes a love song?

A new earth?

Love at work

Well-being and calamity

Living hope

Paul: carrots or sticks?

Never again

Being a bride…

Prayer with a purpose

Communicable light

Monday Blues

Endurance

Bringing good news

Unfading beauty

You in your small corner

Paul: when friends fall out

Good deeds, good lives

A prophet’s diet

Songs of love and spring

Born again

Paul: risen life

Commanded to love

I believe in the resurrection of the dead

For OUR sake?

Living today in the light of tomorrow

Paul: we, ourselves and us

Redeeming our inheritance

Paul: principle vs expediency

Going with the grain

Fatherhood

Social minefields

Paul: God’s delays?

A new year for rejoicing?

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