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"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." (1 John 4:11 NKJV) I decided to take my sons for a walk the other day. Autumn was in the air. Rich, delightful reds painted by God’s own hand were coloring some of the trees. Heavenly yellows shining...
Ministry. Glorious. Beautiful. Or at least, this is how I have always perceived it. There is perhaps an element of pride in me that is fulfilled by the thought that God would choose me to do His work, and thus, I have been joyfully serving Jesus for the past several...
I listened to the morning news and two things were headlines. The first was violence in society. In addition to violent deaths on roads, domestic violence and world-wide violence which we hear about every day, a gunman had caused multiple deaths and injuries in a...
"And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." (Luke 2:7 NKJV) In his wonderful book "Seven Stories of Christmas Love" the author Leo Buscaglia writes about...
First things first. More than worshipping God for the blessings, which He pours into our lives, we need to learn to worship Him, JUST FOR WHAT HE IS! Worshipping Him, awed by His unique attributes, is the noblest form of worship, for it emanates from the depths of the...
I have said before and I never tire of reiterating it; we are essentially created to worship the Creator. When it comes to worshipping Him, more than expressing our adoration for the blessings, He showers upon us, our heart-felt worship should be a pristine product of...
Story time, folks! But this is no run of the mill bed time story to lull you to sleep, instead it is a true account guaranteed to stir one's soul. While many in North America, may have heard it already, it still brings tears to the eye every single time it is...
Good things come in threes and this is the first of three good news stories from the Bible. Enoch lived through about nine generations, from Adam to his own son, Methuselah, and Methuselah’s son, Lamech. He would have known Adam personally and would have understood...
"... Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ..." (Eph 5:20-21 NKJV) Whenever the bare trees and grey skies of mid November start to get me down and I start to mope about how Autumn always ends too early, I go to a...
The three of us huddled close, my phone held tightly in my outstretched hand, all eyes watching the white arrow pointing us in the direction of the day's treasure. I've learned to use my smart phone for geocaching, looking for hidden caches based on GPS satellites....
"A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones." (Prov 17:22 NKJV) Here is a riddle for you. What is black, white and brown, has eight legs, and can do 60 miles an hour down a carpeted hallway? Do you give up? The answer is two puppies...
The Train Driver told me, ‘Down the train track just around the bend, a pair of black swans would return each spring to the same dam in the paddock near the railway line. I have been watching this pair of swans return each year for more than twenty-five years to raise...
Christmas is a season when we give gifts to those we love. Like the three wise men of old too we each hope to find the perfect gift to express our love. As I look back on all the perfect gifts that I have gotten over the years, however, I have noticed that none of...