http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog Sermons and writings from Rev. Colin Dow Wed, 07 May 2008 10:13:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Second Petition in the Lord’s Prayer ‘Thy kingdom come.’ Matt 6: 10. A soul truly devoted to God, joins heartily in this petition, adveniat regnum tuum, ‘thy kingdom come.’ In these words it is implied that God is a king, for he who has a kingdom, can be no lessthan a ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/05/16/thomas-watson-on-your-kingdom-come/ (I) Why Should I Read the Bible? Read: Luke 8:1-18 esp. vs. 18 “consider carefully how you listen” Someone once asked – ‘what is more important in the Christian life – prayer or bible reading?’ To which the answer came back (a rather hackneyed answer in St. V’s) – ‘what wing of ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-1/ [II] What should I do before I read the Bible?                           Read: Psalm 119:9-40 “Zaccheus was a very little man and a very little man was he, he climbed up into the sycamore tree for the Saviour he wanted to see. Now as the Saviour passed that way he looked up to ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-2/ (III) What should I do as I read the Bible?   Read: John 5:31-47 Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at the subject of ‘reading the Bible’. We have used different pictures to describe how we are to view reading the Bible. The first week, we saw that the Bible ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-3/ [IV] What should I do as I read the Bible(2)                                                  Read: Acts 17:1-15 In 1850, the first Europeans settled on a remote hillside in Queensland, Australia, and formed a community called ‘Mount Morgan’. These settlers scraped a meagre living from the land through farming. But in 1874 a certain William McKinlay discovered ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-4/  [IV] What should I do as I read the Bible? (3)              Read: Psalm 119:9-16, esp. vs. 11 – ‘In my heart I have hidden your word in order that I will not sin against you’   Over the course of the last couple of months we have been using Q.90 of the Shorter ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-5/ The Lost Art of Christian Meditation (I) The Theory of Meditation Read: Psalm 77:1-20 I enjoy watching natural history programs on TV. There is a program on at the moment about lost tribes – tribes which are still basically living in the stone age. They wander about with no modern clothes on ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-6/ The Lost Art of Christian Meditation (I) The Theory of Meditation (II) Read: Psalm 1:1-8 What a remarkable woman Ellen MacArthur is! You would have had to be living on Mars not to know that she has just smashed the world record for circumnavigating the globe single-handed. She survived for over 70 days ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-7/ The Lost Art of Christian Meditation (II) The Practice of Meditation (I) Read: Psalm 63:1-11 In 2nd Century BC China, according to writings discovered in a Chinese tomb, the Qinghao plant was used as an anti-malarial treatment. However, it was not until 1971 that the active anti-malarial ingredient of Qinghao was isolated by ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-8/ Meditating on the Bible  A Worked Example                 1 Peter 2:24 – “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” 1. Pray for God’s leading and guiding of your meditation and that not ... http://www.greekthomsonchurch.com/dowblog/2006/06/05/reading-the-bible-9/