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How to Lead an Extremely Significant Life

Anita Mathias — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:33:53 +0000

16th century icon (I’ve recorded this as a podcast, as usual. Please click the green button 🙂 How to Lead an Extremely Significant Life Matthew 20: 20-28 Jesus came from a Kingdom of voluntary gentleness, in which Christ, called the Lion of Judah, stands at the centre of the throne in the guise of a […]

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Don’t Walk Away From Jesus, but if You Do, He Still Looks at You and Loves You

Anita Mathias — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:08:52 +0000

Matthew 19: 16-26 Don’t Walk Away From Jesus, but if You Do, He Still Looks at You and Loves You It’s a beautiful offer: Come follow Jesus on a life of divine guidance on faith-challenging and exciting adventures. Chasing ambitions, strutting our stuff exhausts us, but the excitements of knowing the ever-fresh, […]

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The Silver Coin in the Mouth of a Fish. Never Underestimate God!

Anita Mathias — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:26:23 +0000

I’ve recorded a podcast meditation on Matthew 17: 24-27 below (and would love you to listen 🙂 So the taxman comes for Peter: Does Jesus pay the voluntary, but expected tax for the upkeep of the grand temple and its priests (like today’s tithe)? And, as he often does, Jesus asks Peter what he thinks […]

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Following Jesus Is Costly and the Very Best Thing We Can Do

Anita Mathias — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:45:04 +0000

(I have read this meditation on the podcast above. I hope you enjoy it. Feedback welcome!) Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life […]

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Persistent Prayer Turns Christ’s Silence, His “No,” and “Absolutely Not” to “YES!”

Anita Mathias — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:57:15 +0000

From Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (The transcript to the recorded podcast meditation is below, here). Persistent Prayer Turns Christ’s Silence, His “No,” and “Absolutely Not” to YES! Persistent Prayer Turns Christ’s Silence, His “No,” and “Absolutely Not” to YES! So, a Gentile Syro-Phoenician woman comes to Jesus, crying out, “Lord, have […]

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Grab Christ’s Hand When You Are Sinking

Anita Mathias — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:20:06 +0000

Hi friends, I’ve recorded a podcast meditation, which I hope you’ll enjoy. Feedback welcome 🙂 Sometimes, the little boat of your life is tossed in the darkness, in a storm-swept lake, far from shore, It’s buffeted by waves, with the wind against it. And a dark figure looms, walking on water, and you cannot see […]

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How to Find Life-Changing Hidden Treasure

Anita Mathias — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:52:23 +0000

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy, went and sold all he had and bought that field. Matthew 13:44 The Kingdom of God is within you, Jesus says, as he suggests that making him the King […]

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Jesus Promises Us Rest (and an Easy Yoke!)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:10:52 +0000

He was the cleverest human who ever lived, a master of humour, and of literary devices such as paradox, as when he offers the weary and burdened, rest. Rest–by bearing his yoke. Bearing the yoke of Jesus means developing the habit of checking in with him before we speak, act or commit ourselves. For […]

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God Saw the Light was Good, but He Left Darkness Too

Anita Mathias — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:28:34 +0000

In the beginning… God’s first recorded words in the Bible are “Let there be light.” And there was light. And God saw that the light was good. (Genesis 1:4) But he left darkness too. And so it shall ever be. On June 21, we have 16 hours 41 minutes of light in Oxford, England. But […]

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Changing the Soil of My Heart, Little by Little

Anita Mathias — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 08:54:32 +0000

I read the Gospels, I hear them preached, and tap, tap, tap, go my jubilant feet. The Gospels tell me lovely things I wanted to believe but feared were not true; that fellow Christians often suggested were not true, by their deeds, if not their words; and that our world definitely believes are not true. […]

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