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- Lie in, off to an outreach thing ont the council estate near the churc: bouncy castle, free hot-dogs, cakes & drinks - Pete doing a storming job in some goal-shooting game; fun in the sun.
- Home, babes to bed - played "hang-man" in the garden with Hannah, seemingly 3 letter words are hard to beat, or just obscure ones: "coccyx" a personal favorite. Woked the babes up - very unhappy & sleepy.
- Interesting chat with Heather about prayer for Israel: which of course, has to be a good thing in itself. It's always interesting to me - the several steps in the chain from a solid faith in Christ, to eschatological views I can understand but don't share, to the leap that we should (somehow) be actively involved in ensuring prophecy is fulfilled (God is surely strong enough to accomplish this himself), and yet further to almost unqualified support for evil done to fulfill some people's idea of what God said will happen. For me, it is sad to see those who should yearn to act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with their God end up twisted in knots by speculative theology, and apparently going in a different direction.
- Play, tea, bath, bed. Fine Gordon sermon He Built an Altar on Genesis 12. Some fascinating insights.
- The altar as an analog of Kuduru stones - marking out land as belonging to various people - erected by kings almost like a title deed. Indeed, 'altars' being created not always to sacrifice on but apparently for a similar purpose.
- The radical difference in the Israelite altar vs. pagan ones: worshiping the God 'who is', built very simply with un-dressed stones: with the maker's marks un-blemished by man's. cf. the law of the altar: Ex 20 either just earth for sacrifices, or un-dressed stones.
- God's ultimate ownership of everything, as soverign - whether palestine, England, or our lives: Abraham's confession of himself as God's own: calling on the name of the Lord.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com) 