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Saturday, 7 September 2019

Holiday Pics 2: Poundland


British readers will probably feel a tinge of familiarity in this picture.  'Those are colours that look familiar', we think.  Even in our local High Street there is a store looking almost exactly like this - only with another name.

Yes, Muswell Hill - and many other British shopping streets  - has this colour scheme in the form of Poundland.  This is not a name that translates very easily into a country like Ireland that doesn't use the pound.

There are those who believe that this works for God too.  Jesus here, but something else in another context.

Not so, it turns out. 

8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, 10then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11Jesus is
“ ‘the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the cornerstone.’ a
12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

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