![]() ![]() It’s like being told the Quavers aren’t Quavers, they’re manna, and they don’t taste of salt n’ vinegar, they taste of anything you want them to, which is the best flavour ever, that you haven’t had yet, that makes you see the world with different eyes and experience it with different soul whenever you’re lucky enough to see it cooking. OK, I have at times also felt ecstatic, but in the main, it’s something that is true and tastes good, but that also feels inherently incongruous and unnatural.Įngland playing the longer-form like this though, is of an entirely different order, because it’s so. That is roughly how I feel about England being good at limited-overs cricket. And other cringe-inducing internet vernacular and punctuation. Anyhow, they were pretty good, now that you ask, but they were also wrong – Quavers are meant to taste of cheese. Not an interesting piece of information, I know, but stick with me for the tortured analogy shall surely follow. I ate some salt n’ vinegar Quavers the other day. Ran into a barmy army bloke at Mount Hot pools today about to walk up the mount before the Test, if you’re reading this, i hope you made it up and down and found the beer van to hydrate after your tramp! From a Black Caps fan/barman to the hordes of Barmy Army after the match.” “Watching the match while pulling handles in the local for the tradies finishing up for the day in the mount. “Gday Danny,” begins Niall Allen, who doesn’t know that I went through a phase, aged about eight, telling people to call me that and now I’m 43, my mates still like calling me it to remind me of my behaviour. I’m relaying on the fact that when the tim comes, I’ll make the right call, but in the meantime, Conway again picks out Broad, who makes a terrific stop as they run one, then gets up gingerly strawberry blondely, rubbing his side. I’ve never been able to decide whether, when I make my d’boo, I’ll wear a cap because it’s traditional, or a sunhat like SJ, because Warne and the West Indians of my childhood did. To receive the Spirit is to receive a helper and advocate for the soul, One who will always point us to Jesus, our Redeemer and King.22nd over: New Zealand 58-3 (Conway 30, Wagner 11) Conway gets his feet moving, coming down the track, but his flick goes straight to Broad’s sunhat at mid-on. ![]() And this Helper would be the most sturdy of lifelines to all those who believe upon the gospel. Because in His leaving, a new Helper was sent. So this is why Jesus tells His disciples that it is to their advantage that He left them (John 16:7). ![]() “He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you” ( John 16:14). He will also declare to you what is to come” ( John 16:13). ![]() For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. “When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. “When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment” ( John 16:8). “When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you from the Father - the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father - He will testify about Me” ( John 15:26). He is a personal witness to testify about Christ. “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit - the Father will send Him in My name - will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you” ( John 14:26). He reminds us about all that Jesus has taught. Here are a few ways that the Holy Spirit “speaks” to us both for our good and God’s glory: In other words, the Holy Spirit was sent to remind us about Christ and empower us to live in light of the gospel. The first Advocate is speaking to God for you, but the second Advocate is speaking to you for you. Many people say that the Holy Spirit gives us power, and that’s true, but how does he do that? Does he merely zap us with higher energy levels? No-by calling him the other Advocate, Jesus has given us the great clue to understanding how the empowering of the Holy Spirit works. In a recent staff devotional, we read the following quote from Tim Keller’s Encounters with Jesus on the role of the Holy Spirit: He is our real and necessary helper and advocate, sent to assist us in living the Christian life. But Jesus is very clear: the Spirit is so much more. Who is the Holy Spirit and how exactly does He help us? Sometimes, we refer to the Holy Spirit as some nebulous spirit being that just hovers around to lead us this way and that. “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.” ![]()
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