Posts by Deborah van Kroonenburg
The Healing at the Pool of Bethesda
‘wherever the river flows, all living creatures teeming in it will live … wherever the water goes it brings health … this water comes from the sanctuary’ I was waiting for the water to move. By then it was a long time since the day I first came to the pool. I have no clear…
Read MoreWhere To Turn for True Refreshment
We were so blessed in His company, in those days. He called each of us, out of our former lives, into His circle where we watched Him healing, teaching, and praying. From that first moment at the water’s edge, I knew Who our Master was. I knew that we were disciples of the promised One…
Read MoreI Know Who You Are
Peter speaks: The events of those days crashed over us with a breathtaking power and speed. From the moment we walked away from our former lives we were caught up in the wake of the Teacher. Before dawn He would be missing. Then He would return to us, with the daylight lighting up His face,…
Read MoreAs One Who Serves
We, the disciples of the Lord, saw a new world that night. We had taken part in a Passover like no other. The covenant was transformed, with Our Lord himself before us, as The Sacrifice. The vision of that perfect Sacrifice swam before our eyes as we ate the Lamb and drank from the cup…
Read MoreA Centurion’s Story
Unworthy ‘Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof … but only say the word and my soul shall be healed’ The priest lifts up the consecrated host and Jesus Christ is really truly present with us, body blood, soul and divinity. As we gaze on the Son of God, this…
Read MoreChildren of Israel
My life was given over to holiness. The Law of the Lord was uppermost in my mind, from my earliest days. We were children of Israel, the Lord God’s children by adoption, living under the Law in a holy covenant. Among my people those of us who lived for holiness sought to separate ourselves from…
Read MoreAmong Heavenly Hosts
Nathanael speaks God gave me gifts; a love for my people, a love for his word and visions of his glory. I was also given a longing for him which is endless. From boyhood I wrestled with His words and tried to live my life in simple docility to my God who was companion of…
Read MoreA Disciple Speaks
The Pharisees and teachers of the law came from Jerusalem, to watch and listen and confront our rabbi. Swathed in an air of purity they passed through the crowd, and the people stood aside as they moved, to honour them and to spare them from being contaminated by the common man and woman. They even…
Read MoreLiving Tabernacle
‘Moses erected the tabernacle … He brought the ark into the tabernacle and put the screening veil in place … the cloud of the Lord rested on the tabernacle by day, and a fire shone within the cloud by night, for all the House of Israel to see.’ ‘How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord,…
Read MoreOn This Rock I Will Build My Church
Simon speaks He brings us to a pagan place, Caesarea Philippi, and we are tested. It is a place of wild and chilling beauty, haunted by the strange gods and elementals who had inhabited the land forever, horrors who knew the battle was lost, was always lost, but lingered on the mountainside, ready to lead…
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