Having a good work ethic in our everyday workplace should be a distinguishing mark of all believers.

God made us in His image as emotional beings who can express & use emotions for His glory, as they are guided by His Word. Yes - even our feelings must be submitted to the authoritative Word of God.

Having friends is an important aspect of life because God created us to be people who would flourish in community.

This is our business. This is our goal. This is our commission given by the Lord Jesus Himself. This is why we need to be a Gospel driven church.

The promises made by our politicians over the last couple of months in order to persuade the voters of yesterday will now be put to the test. But as normal the promises made will often fail owing to the failure of leaders to keep their word. Truth gets sidelined and all sorts of blame shifting begin to fill the void. 

“The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.”

Over the last two decades there has been a quantum leap from choosing more active styles of entertainment to the passive, unsocial, self gratifying, where technology has swamped us with accessible self absorbing entertainment like never before!

C.T. Studd was an outstanding County and All-England Cricketer. He was a freshman at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1879-1880, and took a degree in law. By that time he had been challenged to a missionary career and, forsaking his cricketing fame and the family fortune, he followed Hudson Taylor to China.

 The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son. Oswald Chambers

Our lives are often thrown into turmoil when confronted with arduous circumstances. These times can be difficult to say the least as we struggle to come to terms with their possible long and short-term consequences. Some people can be downcast, morose, depressed and even suicidal as they fold in under the weight of such trying situations.