The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” Psalm 14:1 We are familiar with the above text and usually align such anti-God thinking to the atheist. In other words a fool is one whose worldview is devoid of a higher being and refuses to accept the miraculous on the basis that everything must have a scientific cause.
Read moreBEARING FRUIT
My apricot and peach tree have borne quality crops of fruit this year. My grape vines are also producing large bunches of grapes just as they were designed to do. This reminds me of our spiritual fruit-bearing design. A peach tree will bear peaches, an apricot tree will bear apricots, but do we, God’s chosen fruit bearers, bear spiritual fruit as we should? Or is it stunted and lacking in quality?
Read moreI SPY WITH MY ALL-SEING EYE!
It never ceases to amaze me how often enthusiasm for God can be mistaken for spiritual conviction. Not that being enthusiastic about serving the Lord is wrong. Quite the opposite, it is a commendable result for any believer who has an intimate knowledge of God. But when our enthusiasm shortcuts God’s foundational blue print for what He looks for in his people, then it is wrong!
Read moreI’LL WORK ON THAT TOMORROW
Is it only me or do you also experience the interruption that a holiday can bring to healthy spiritual disciplines, like reading the word and prayer and even worshipping God with other believers on the Lord’s day?
Read moreJOY TO THE WORLD!
Joy to the world? So, where is it? If we honestly appraise our world it is characterised - not with joy but grief, sadness, turmoil, war, suffering, crime, and wickedness. Yes, we do see and experience, by God’s grace, momentary glimpses of joy but surely God had something deeper in mind when we consider the text above - right?
Read moreLET’S TALK ABOUT JESUS!
This morning our message from Romans chapter seven is about the struggle all true believers in Jesus contend with. We who are God’ elect willingly submit to the sweet persuasions of God’s Holy Spirit yet still experience the powerful yearnings of our sinful flesh.
Read moreOBEDIENCE & FAITH
What an encouragement it is when we witness obedience to the Lord. We experienced this at Shefan’s baptism last Sunday evening. It impressed upon me again how faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to His commands are inseparable.
Read moreWORSHIP BASED PRAYER
Over the last few weeks I have asked myself some serious questions
dealing with the what, why, when, where, who & how of my prayers.
The answers, when all was weighed up against the Word of God, found me
sorely wanting. I discovered that my prayers were heavily bent with a
“Lord bless me - Lord bless us” mentality. In other words, the purpose
of so much of my prayer can be likened to going to the supermarket with
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PRAYER IN ACTION
Being ‘so busy’ that prayer is shelved for a more convenient time, is a common excuse that stops believers praying. The high level of engagement that our careers, family, education, and social life demand, can interfere and allow precious little time for prayer. Maybe we need to do some personal evaluation here.
Read moreHOW DO YOU DEFINE PRAYER?
E. Stanley Jones in his book, ‘A Song of Ascents’ wrote this: “If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.”
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