The pivotal key of history to Salvation by FAITH.
One has to wonder how many Churches today still emphasise the cross and the death and resurrection of Jesus as the final atonement for our sins and our Salvation?
Or have they adopted new tact in playing on eggs and bunny rabbits to water down the truth, because of fear of upsetting others in the world who have no concern for Christianity?
Every nation and tradition will mark this time on differing dates, due to their respective calendars, but the message will still focus on Jesus!
Meanwhile what are we doing, many will have to work through it, while others can take the opportunity to share their faith and see other lives changed for the better!
Mark 8:34, Luke 23:26, John 19:17-31, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Galatians 6:14, Colossians 1:20, Hebrews 12:2.
Monday, 25 March 2019
Monday, 11 March 2019
A mothers Love?
Appreciation!
The end of this month sees another celebration of our mothers, despite the traditions and requirements of this day? We tend to forget that our mothers mostly tried to do and do continue to do the best for us?
But it us who have to return that love in our responsibility and actions is helping our parents if we can? Cleaning, caring, shopping, taking them out and returning that love which will build our relationships!
Jesus too had a mother who loved Him, she may have not full understood Him, until after the events cared? But she stayed the road with the believers who followed Him well into the establishment of the early Church!
Genesis 2:24, 3:20, Matthew/Levi 1:18, 2:11, Mark 7:7-11, Acts 1:14, Ephesians 6:2.
The end of this month sees another celebration of our mothers, despite the traditions and requirements of this day? We tend to forget that our mothers mostly tried to do and do continue to do the best for us?
But it us who have to return that love in our responsibility and actions is helping our parents if we can? Cleaning, caring, shopping, taking them out and returning that love which will build our relationships!
Jesus too had a mother who loved Him, she may have not full understood Him, until after the events cared? But she stayed the road with the believers who followed Him well into the establishment of the early Church!
Genesis 2:24, 3:20, Matthew/Levi 1:18, 2:11, Mark 7:7-11, Acts 1:14, Ephesians 6:2.
Domestic Abuse! Part-Two.
Breakdown, but not Breakup?
All relationships will have periods of stress and friction, since we are all sinners and fall all the time! Marriages are built on vows to God and promises to each other, that couples should take seriously and stop emphasising themselves and what they want!
We can have a breakdown in a relationship, but it does not mean the end even when their is violence? Because some violence can be treated and stopped, especially by good friends around us who can intervene and advise?
In other cases things just get worse and couples have to split apart, in these case one side may face time in prison for their foolish actions? There are so many combination of factors at play in the human psyche proving that we are much more intelligent than any of the other creatures around us!
Deuteronomy 24:1, Ecclesiastes 5:4-5, Matthew 5:31, Mark 10:4, Hebrews 6:13-17.
All relationships will have periods of stress and friction, since we are all sinners and fall all the time! Marriages are built on vows to God and promises to each other, that couples should take seriously and stop emphasising themselves and what they want!
We can have a breakdown in a relationship, but it does not mean the end even when their is violence? Because some violence can be treated and stopped, especially by good friends around us who can intervene and advise?
In other cases things just get worse and couples have to split apart, in these case one side may face time in prison for their foolish actions? There are so many combination of factors at play in the human psyche proving that we are much more intelligent than any of the other creatures around us!
Deuteronomy 24:1, Ecclesiastes 5:4-5, Matthew 5:31, Mark 10:4, Hebrews 6:13-17.
Monday, 25 February 2019
Real Friendship?
Relationship with Jesus!
We may think that we have many friends or perhaps we know them as associates, but are they really our close mates or buddies or are they out to get something from us?
The old Hymn opens with these words, 'What a friend we have in Jesus!
This is true, He really is the best and only friend that we can really have, if we seek, confess our failure and turn from it into being born-again as a new creation?
Now we will have that friendship, knowing that Jesus will intercede on our behalf to the Father! He will hear our prayers and guide us through the daily reading of His words in the Holy Bible!
Matthew 7:7-8, John 14:27, Revelation 3:19-20.
We may think that we have many friends or perhaps we know them as associates, but are they really our close mates or buddies or are they out to get something from us?
The old Hymn opens with these words, 'What a friend we have in Jesus!
This is true, He really is the best and only friend that we can really have, if we seek, confess our failure and turn from it into being born-again as a new creation?
Now we will have that friendship, knowing that Jesus will intercede on our behalf to the Father! He will hear our prayers and guide us through the daily reading of His words in the Holy Bible!
Matthew 7:7-8, John 14:27, Revelation 3:19-20.
Monday, 18 February 2019
Domestic Abuse! Part-One.
Begins in the Church?
What a terrible thing to say, but this is a truth that many believers refuse to admit to at any level of counselling?
Many a minister goes home and hits his wife or husband for saying the wrong thing, looking or being friendly with you know who and so the list of failure continues while the veneer of respectability covers the cracks of keeping face!
Our society at this time in the west is very complex with relationships of every kind that are outside the confines of the Holy Scriptures! We live in a world of more self and so more sin comes with it, if people and believers would only admit these failings revival would break out everywhere!
Job 24:15-18, Proverbs 2:16-19, Isaiah 57:3-4, Matthew/Levi 5:28, Romans 7:3, Philippians 1:10, 1 Timothy 1:9-10.
What a terrible thing to say, but this is a truth that many believers refuse to admit to at any level of counselling?
Many a minister goes home and hits his wife or husband for saying the wrong thing, looking or being friendly with you know who and so the list of failure continues while the veneer of respectability covers the cracks of keeping face!
Our society at this time in the west is very complex with relationships of every kind that are outside the confines of the Holy Scriptures! We live in a world of more self and so more sin comes with it, if people and believers would only admit these failings revival would break out everywhere!
Job 24:15-18, Proverbs 2:16-19, Isaiah 57:3-4, Matthew/Levi 5:28, Romans 7:3, Philippians 1:10, 1 Timothy 1:9-10.
Monday, 11 February 2019
Love and Forgiveness? Two.
We cannot live without Love!
As a species love is a key element to our existence and the world cannot do without it!
Animals mate by cycles that they have no control over, but we humans can make choices wither we want to or not?
The world craves love, but if we who claim a faith in Jesus, then we must put His love for others into action! Loving those the world reject, fellow believers and their situations, the homeless, family, friends and enemies alike?
We also must learn to forgive all of the above, since God forgave us our failings!
Proverbs 10:12, 17:9, Matthew 18:22, John 3:15-16, 1 Corinthians 13:13, Galatians 5:17-26, James 5;20, 1 Peter 4:2
As a species love is a key element to our existence and the world cannot do without it!
Animals mate by cycles that they have no control over, but we humans can make choices wither we want to or not?
The world craves love, but if we who claim a faith in Jesus, then we must put His love for others into action! Loving those the world reject, fellow believers and their situations, the homeless, family, friends and enemies alike?
We also must learn to forgive all of the above, since God forgave us our failings!
Proverbs 10:12, 17:9, Matthew 18:22, John 3:15-16, 1 Corinthians 13:13, Galatians 5:17-26, James 5;20, 1 Peter 4:2
Monday, 4 February 2019
Love and Forgiveness? One.
Lacking Today!
Forgiveness would help solve many issues today in our world and society, and it is lacking on an individual, national and idealistic level! Our world is full of rights, civil, political and judicial, but nothing ever really seems to get sorted?
People lack trust in the selfishness of a want, must have society that demands more and more tat? Tech is out of date the minute we use it, designer clothing is nothing more than some ones name of a third world produced product!
Where do we stand in all of this, with Gods dynamic faith?
Prayer is good and we need it, practicing charity and doing good works, volunteering does make a change!
But preaching the gospel and telling others about what Jesus has done for us is the best of all, because it sows seeds that will change lives, today, tomorrow, next year!!!!
Psalm 130:4, Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14.
Forgiveness would help solve many issues today in our world and society, and it is lacking on an individual, national and idealistic level! Our world is full of rights, civil, political and judicial, but nothing ever really seems to get sorted?
People lack trust in the selfishness of a want, must have society that demands more and more tat? Tech is out of date the minute we use it, designer clothing is nothing more than some ones name of a third world produced product!
Where do we stand in all of this, with Gods dynamic faith?
Prayer is good and we need it, practicing charity and doing good works, volunteering does make a change!
But preaching the gospel and telling others about what Jesus has done for us is the best of all, because it sows seeds that will change lives, today, tomorrow, next year!!!!
Psalm 130:4, Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14.
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