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It was the Christmas break from school almost 40 years ago. I had spent most of the morning like any young boy would, playing outside in the snow and soaking up the few hours of sunlight on the shortest day of the year. I had delighted in stomping through the freshly...
Parousia In the concluding part of our series, "Order...Order...Order", based on the inspired sequencing of Psalms 22-24, today we come to Psalm 24: "Lift your heads, you gates. Be lifted, you ancient doors, so that the king of glory may come in. Who is this king of...
Friends today we come to the concluding part of the series "Operation demolish prejudice". "Lord, is this man born blind on account of his sins or that of his parents?" (John 9:1-2). Honestly who is blind here? The blind man or the Disciples blinded by prejudice. How...
"My soul finds rest in God alone...my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken…he is my refuge." (Psalm 62:1-7) We were visiting from out of town and arrived a little before the service started at a church...
He created the most beautiful image of a flower anyone had ever seen. He used material that had never been seen before, soft and flexible but with a transparency unknown to anyone else and the colours seemed to radiate from whichever angle you looked. It was put into...
"If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown...
Somebody gave me a creamy white cross. It was about the size of a piece of costume jewellery and I looked it over carefully because I had not seen anything like it before. It was hand made and smooth with a slight sheen, and the more I looked at it and handled it, the...
Last week, I bemoaned the fact that I am too "ancient" to understand the "talk" of the modern younger generation. But I can get even. I, too, speak a language that is "foreign" to them! Take for example, this conversation I had with my son yesterday after learning...
In the concluding part of this series Of "control" at the Cross, let's focus on three other aspects of significant import... Geographical Matters In the penultimate part of this series of God's control at the cross, let's focus on one more Geographical matter. Why was...
Continuing with a series on God in His role as a Paradisiacal Pilot who loves us enough to correct us, albeit painfully, today we come to the concluding part of the series... Purity... He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. (See Malachi 3:3). He...
"So he answered and said, 'You shall love ... your neighbor as yourself.' But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, 'And who is my neighbour?'" (Luke 10:27-29, NKJV) Have you made your New Years' resolution for 2013 yet? I have, and I would like to invite...
"Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need." (Matthew 6:33) I was looking over the list, the never ending "To Do" list. Crossing things off, adding things, rearranging the list according to today's...
When my children were babies I spent many hours feeding them, changing them, bathing them, and dressing them. Yet, all of these hours combined are probably still less than the time I spent trying to make them laugh. From tickling toes, to belly blows, to making...