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On 3 of my 5 mornings here, I’ve run a 5km circuit of the centre. Seen institute of forensics and statistics, bank head offices, also small traders, coffin shops, many small pharmacies (which will please mum & dad), endless motos, and many large bags of bananas on people’s heads! 
We always want more, better, newer… So too in Colossae… maybe Jesus is a good start, but is there more? 
The chairman of the GAFCON primates conference. @FoleyBeach calls us to be 
“Once the secret of grace has been understood, it becomes determinative for every aspect of the Christian life.”
The context in Genesis chapter 4 reports the Bible's first murder. Cain murders his brother, Abel. The Lord inquires of Cain as to Abel’s whereabouts, to which Cain replies – notoriously – ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’
"Christmas is the traditional, if not the actual, birthday of a man who was destined to change the course of our history. And today we are celebrating the fact that Jesus Christ was born two thousand years ago; this is the true Millennium anniversary... 2000/1
Jesus cared for the weak and heavy laden, and few burdens weigh so heavily as the harm caused by gambling - especially on the poker machines engineered to suck you in.
Mark says John Webster is right to point out that the relation between divine and human agency in the production of Scripture is not the same as the union between divinity and humanity in the person of Christ.
If you don’t commune with God in your ministry, you will learn to fake it (Keller). Astonishingly, Paul, facing death, is full of confidence from God’s promise of life (1:1; also 1:10)!
And yes, that was frost settling on my arms as we ran! 
Now to Philippians 2 with Bp Jay Behan of the church of Confessing Anglicans in New Zealand. Notes the deep desires of people to “walk together”, including the desire of those seeking to revise doctrine. Jay agrees: unity is deeply and rightly prized in Philippians 2; John 17.
Mark has some great quotes to introduce his book… " Holy Scripture, indeed, speaks in such a way as to mock proud readers with its heights, terrify the attentive with its depths, feed great souls with its truth, and nourish little ones with its sweetness." - Augustine
“…None of these values are self-evident, nor are they widespread among the civilisations of the world. So where did they come from, and how did they get to become "the air we breathe"?