Easy Terrorism?

 Knife Murder!

Last week a British member of Parliament was stabbed and estimated seventeen times by a young Muslim man in a Church as the MP invited people to seek help from him!

It is perhaps the same world-wide, were the public can talk to a politician an get a letter written, countersigned or get some help in their struggles with local government, the police, disputes with other people or faulty goods?

But now criminal activity is being employed by the cowardice of disturbed people and we are living in the spirit of the age, where knife crime is now more prevalent than it has been for over a hundred years?

Deuteronomy 21:1,  1 Chronicles 28:9,  Job 37:16,  Romans 2:12,  1 Corinthians 2:11,  Hebrews 4:12-13.

A bed of Roses?

Stephen and being a Believer!

The traditional image of the Christian Church is of it being easy, like a bed of roses?

But to be a born-again believer is only for the tough and its great to know that God chooses us for His service!

Weak things are strength, while those who appear to be strong are really the weaklings!

Stephen was a man who spoke the truth to a libertine world of his day and they could not cope with him so they did the same as with Jesus a year earlier.

So they set him up and had him stoned to death, but he was tougher because he forgave them and asked God that this not be held against them!

Acts 7:51-60,  2 Corinthians 12:10,  Hebrews 4:12.

Love. Part-One.

Loving those who hate Us.

Now that is a hard thing to put into practice, when the natural wants to strike back. 

Many people only love others close to them, mum, dad brother, sister, wife, husband, girl-boy friend and 'that is easy says Jesus.

God wants us to love those who hate us, that have done us wrong and who don't say Thank you.

This is the real love you can put into practice this Saint Valentines Day, because your Eternal reward will be in Heaven waiting for you.

Matthew 5:44-48, Luke 6:27, 35, 1 Peter 3:9.

No:1 Target.

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.