2022, is it the Year we are to get ready on our road across the Jordan, to get to the other side?On 19-21 October 2007, I took my three Pastors away for the weekend to hear God and to plan for the New Year for the Church. There was a stirring in my heart, that Jesus...
"Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish." (Psalms 1:5-6 ESV) We have seen in personal experience or in news reports the...
"But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." (John 1:12 ESV) "For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith." (Galatians 3:26 ESV) There's a song: "Hello My Name Is" sung by Matthew West. In the...
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will...
While in my kitchen busy chopping onions for my favorite salmon dish, I listened to a photographer’s interview on radio. He had gone into an odd adventure. After asking permission of dozens of folks, he took photographs of the inside of their refrigerators. Kind of...
"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation." (1 Peter 2:9a NIV)A painting that an artist gave me recently had been no more than a colourful garden scene, until it suddenly exploded with new relevance. That "Aha!" experience was too exciting to...
“And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.” (Isaiah 61:4 KJV). Dearly beloved and friends,it is God’s plan for us to build and inhabit places.Our...
Is there anything cuter than a chuckling new baby, happy, curious, and squealing with delight with every new toy? A baby exudes love, trust and dependence to everyone in the room, often being the centre of attention. How quickly do the laughs of joy and love turn to...
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”(Isaiah 1:18 KJV). Dearly beloved and friends,please go straight to your mirror and...
"Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, He devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from Him." (2 Samuel 14:14 ESV)This devotion pairs with this weekend's Lutheran...