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Micha Jazz

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Micha Jazz is Director of Resources at Waverley Abbey, UK.

Work

The Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. Genesis 3:23 Living with the consequences of poor decisions can prove challenging. Yet it requires the same mindset that we...

Making Decisions

Also for the man and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 Our popular image of right and wrong leads us to imagine right being rewarded and wrong punished. Yet, God doesn’t operate...

Birth Pangs

Then the man named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live. Genesis 3:20 Within life there is a source of perpetual hope. While life is contested in so many ways, life is itself irrepressible....

Struggles

Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Genesis 3:17b Life is a struggle. Finding work to provide both a home and food consumes the largest...

Civil War

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and hers. Genesis 3:15a It was St. Paul who helpfully pointed out that we each struggle to do what we positively intend to do: ‘For I...
The man and the woman hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Genesis 3:8b Earlier this year Jayne, my wife, had Covid-19. No temperature and no cough, but a loss of voice. Directed to A &...

Pray to Obey

Satan said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?’ Genesis 3:1b Rivers of ink have been spilt writing about prayer. Yet, we remain uncertain in our prayers. Do I pray...

New Start

For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son. John 3:9 Like Nicodemus, everyone is searching to satisfy an inner angst. So much is demanded of us from life that it’s easy to lose...
‘How are these things possible?’ Nicodemus asked. John 3:9 One thing’s certain: life’s full of questions. It’s the basis for all learning. Knowledge is the fruit of our questions. So my questions reveal I’m an active disciple, or learner –...

Unpredictable

The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit. John 3:8 Weather is...