Stephen.
The first Christian to be martyred, Stephen was picked out by liberal minded men and this is a serious warning to every believer. These men were not able to prove Stephen wrong, so they had no excuses to justify their own sin.
We must be careful when sharing our faith not to button hole or push people and to pull back. But Stephen was only telling them the truth and it cost him his life.
They set him up, just like the religious men set up Jesus. So please don't think that being a Christian is about being a do gooder and it is an easy ride?
Matthew 26:59-61, Acts 6:9-15.
Monday 29 December 2014
Tuesday 23 December 2014
Crib n Cross. Part-Three.
Born of the Virgin.
It is a miracle the birth of Jesus, He God incarnate came from Heaven and was chosen to be conceived into human flesh by the Holy Spirit to a young virgin girl named Mary. The Angel Gabri'el was sent by God to tell her that she was the chosen one to bear the Messiah. Luke 1:26-35.
After Jesus was born Mary married Joseph and they went on to have normal relations and a big family. We see later on 30 years later His earthly mother coming with His brothers and sisters to get Him. Matthew 12:46-49.
Roman Catholicism and many branches of the Christian Church venerate Mary, before Jesus and this is a false teaching. Jesus must be and is the only focus for our need to change our mental attitudes and be saved from Eternal Damnation. 1 John 5:20.
It is a miracle the birth of Jesus, He God incarnate came from Heaven and was chosen to be conceived into human flesh by the Holy Spirit to a young virgin girl named Mary. The Angel Gabri'el was sent by God to tell her that she was the chosen one to bear the Messiah. Luke 1:26-35.
After Jesus was born Mary married Joseph and they went on to have normal relations and a big family. We see later on 30 years later His earthly mother coming with His brothers and sisters to get Him. Matthew 12:46-49.
Roman Catholicism and many branches of the Christian Church venerate Mary, before Jesus and this is a false teaching. Jesus must be and is the only focus for our need to change our mental attitudes and be saved from Eternal Damnation. 1 John 5:20.
Monday 15 December 2014
Crib n Cross. Part-Two.
Born to Die.
The story of the baby Jesus, does not end after Christmas He grows up helping His earthly father Joseph the carpenter in Nazareth. We learn from the bible that He was a perfect child. John 6:42.
But Mary still had to clean up after Him, when a babe and toddler! He stayed behind in Jerusalem talking to the teachers of the Law. Luke 2:46.
But when rebuked He obeyed his parents. Luke 2:51.
The story of Jesus life is about doing what mum and dad needed Him to do, until His time was ready for ministry of healing and then He had to go to the Cross/stake/tree for us. Mark 14:21.
The story of the baby Jesus, does not end after Christmas He grows up helping His earthly father Joseph the carpenter in Nazareth. We learn from the bible that He was a perfect child. John 6:42.
But Mary still had to clean up after Him, when a babe and toddler! He stayed behind in Jerusalem talking to the teachers of the Law. Luke 2:46.
But when rebuked He obeyed his parents. Luke 2:51.
The story of Jesus life is about doing what mum and dad needed Him to do, until His time was ready for ministry of healing and then He had to go to the Cross/stake/tree for us. Mark 14:21.
Crib n Cross. Part-One.
Star of Jacob.
Do you ever bother to look up at the night sky and ponder the stars, along time ago the wisemen of three great world powers looked up nightly waiting for that event.
The prophet Daniel, the guy put in with the lions he was the one who trained the Magi and they kept to his words.
Daniel 6:7, 12.
It is strage how God intervenes in peoples lives?
There was mad Baalim, you know the one who heard his donkey talking to him. He was given this prophecy and that is why the wisemen came to see Jesus.
Numbers 24:17, Matthew 2:2.
What will you be doing this Christmas, drinking, stuffing yourself, music and sex or perhaps its time to let Him who knocks the door of your heart IN.
Luke 11:9, Revelation 3:20.
Do you ever bother to look up at the night sky and ponder the stars, along time ago the wisemen of three great world powers looked up nightly waiting for that event.
The prophet Daniel, the guy put in with the lions he was the one who trained the Magi and they kept to his words.
Daniel 6:7, 12.
It is strage how God intervenes in peoples lives?
There was mad Baalim, you know the one who heard his donkey talking to him. He was given this prophecy and that is why the wisemen came to see Jesus.
Numbers 24:17, Matthew 2:2.
What will you be doing this Christmas, drinking, stuffing yourself, music and sex or perhaps its time to let Him who knocks the door of your heart IN.
Luke 11:9, Revelation 3:20.
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