Sandyknowes Blog

Living beside the busiest roundabout in Northern Ireland gives plenty of opportunity for watching the world go by. Sandyknowes Blog is the personal blog of Niall Lockhart (minister of Ballyhenry). Pull in and have a read…

An Advent Journey - 16th December

16 December 2020

Read: Haggai 1 vs 1-15

What are you hoping to get for Christmas? I can still remember as a child that feeling of going to bed on Christmas Eve. There really was no other night in the whole year like it … that sense of sheer expectation.

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An Advent Journey - 15th December

15 December 2020

Advent Journey – Day 17

Read: Nehemiah 1 vs 1-11

No matter how early you start there are always things to be done to get ready for Christmas. As we have seen over the last couple of weeks, page upon page, in the Old Testament part of the Bible we see God getting ready for Christmas. 

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An Advent Journey - 14th December

14 December 2020

Read: Ezra 1 vs 1 vs 1-6 

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An Advent Journey - 11th December

11 December 2020
Read: Daniel 6 vs 1-10

The theme of ‘living in exile’ is a big theme in the Old Testament part of the Bible. Exile is a place far from home, exile is where you don’t want to be. For a believer ‘exile’ is a place where God is the people around you, and the people in power, do not believe in nor worship your God.
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Advent Journey - 10th December

10 December 2020
Read: Lamentations 3 vs 19-24
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