The pastor urged the congregation to give generously to the church building fund stressing the benefits it would offer the saints. He drew on the generosity shown for the tabernacle and the temple in a bid to press home the importance. All this for what appeared the umpteenth time. The sister opened her front door […]
Read More DeathIt’s been interesting in my life recently. Back in my school days the school gave me a brown folder called a National Record of Achievement within which I could put all my school reports and certificates and the such like to mark the passing of my time at school. My beloved wife dug it out, […]
Read More Telling The Story Of How I Got Here From ThereThere is a reason why God has made it clear that this Christian pathway is not a solo journey. There are reasons, but one in particular became very clear to me recently. I was going through some really difficult decisions to be made, and I was honest enough to understand I needed help. My wife […]
Read More Working It Out By FaithEven when I was growing up in church, there were some words used that I did not understand. I heard the words used a lot, but had no idea what they meant. Short words like ‘glory’ and then some bigger words. A word like sanctification. Now, with no disrespect meant to those who attended the […]
Read More Defining SanctificationRecently I wrote a glowing tribute to thanksgiving, rating the activity as something admirable and worth enjoying. In the interests of fairness, and because as timing has it, after I was so happy, I was sent to a significant low, it’s worth sharing how I celebrate God in bad times. Sometimes events appear to conspire […]
Read More Celebrating God In Bad TimesI am not a fan of uniform types of church – one style and size must fit all. I mean by that a uniformed format of how the ‘service’ should take place, and all the ingredients done in the same order. It just does not make sense to me. I found it interesting reading about the David and Goliath […]
Read More In Fitting With Who You AreI am very grateful to God for journeying mercies. From back in childhood, whenever we travelled in the car from location to the next, there was always gratitude for God allowing us to get to our desired destination. It was not always easy, but the mere fact that we got to where we going was […]
Read More Prayer of Thanks for Journeying MerciesThe nature of the life we lead can often be very demanding. Responsibilities require energy to carry them out. Loving people is not done without expending something of yourself in it. That takes a toll. This is why it was a genius part of the human set-up to require a number of hours of sleep […]
Read More It’s Very Good From Time To Time To RestIt’s an interesting time of year. Today I stood with others in a church service as the efforts of the servicemen who died in the major wars of the last century were remembered. I was informed by the leader of the service, that these people made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Yesterday I was […]
Read More For Our FreedomYesterday you’d have noted I posted a verse from.the second letter of Peter. Here’s where I was coming from. It started with a conversation I held recently. I like the guy. I don’t know him that well. We met a few weeks ago. He could hold a decent conversation, which is always useful. He’s a […]
Read More How Now Shall We Live? An Explanation
