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21
Dec
13

Merry Christmas.

What are we eating this ‘Christmas?

In a few days from now many people across the globe will be sitting down in families or alone to eat a meal that celebrates the birth of the baby Jesus. But what will we be eating!

For most of the year people are concerned about food and what makes up what we eat. Is our meat, fish, vedge, dairy and fruit coming from a safe source or is it free range.

There is a committed trade or production every year set in motion, after the holidays to prepare for the next. Christmas seasonal food is produced enmass and it is made a the cheapest cost and dressed up. ‘One could say it was carboard made to look nice.

Please enjoy your celebrations, but don’t eat to much of it and try not to be greedy either.

Proverbs 23:19-21,  28:6-9,  Titus 1:12.

13
Dec
13

Christmas. Part-Four,

An Astronomical Event.

Scientists think that they can prove the event of the explosion of a giant supernova star occuring around the time of the birth of Jesus and they also believe it was a prominent feature in the skies of the middle-east for over one year.

The prophet Daniel knew about it long before the event and Baalim also knew about it much further back still. Daniel had great sway over the Babylonian court of his day and it was from these men that the Magi came, setting out from Persia to Israel to find the King of the Jews.

But baby Jesus came as a humble servant to this lost world, to save us from our sins. That is what Christmas and Easter are all about, the celebration of a promised birth and the death and resurrection of a Savior.

Numbers 24:17,   Daniel 6:25-28,   Matthew 2:1-12.

God bless you this speacial season and may you come to know these truths as we do.

06
Dec
13

Christmas. Part-Three.

For the lonely.

Many people make a point to miss out on ‘Christmas, because it is not a time for them due to lonliness and the feelings of rejection. That is one of the reasons the angels appeared to the shephers in the fields, the other that the ancestor of Jesus was King Davis. David started out as a shepherd.

This Christmas our challenge should be to look out for the lonley in community and Church, even within our own family groups. Christmas is a time to put aside our differences. Charles Dickens ‘Christmas Carol has old Scrooge being welcomed by his nephew.

1 Samuel 16:7-13,    Luke 2:8-20.

29
Nov
13

Christmas. Part-Two.

Keeping Focused.

The centre of Christmas is not Santa, Snowmen, Teddy bears or any other ideas and concepts. It is the birth of the baby Jesus, the Son of God. Mary and Joseph were the earthly parents of God in the flesh of a human. Jesus was born into Mary without her having sexual relations with a man.

That is the natural order of life with humans, instead the bible tells us that the Holt Spirit hovered over her and that is how the egg in her womb was fertilized. Many people find this hard to believe and yet today we have artificial insemination, first for animals and now all over the world for couples who find it hard to concieve.

Jesus was like all babies, in his actions of crying, wetting ect. But still he was perfect, the only perfect baby ever.

Luke 1:30-38,  1:35.

22
Nov
13

Christmas.Part-One.

Hype and Advertizing.

For many people the Christmas season has started and we see are TV screens full of high powered and emotional advertising, promting us to buy generally food. But how many people today in Britain have any real knowledge of what Christmas is really about?

Many who go to Church and may even say ‘that they are believers, refuse to believe in the miracles of the Virgin birth of Jesus and the Star, appearing Angels. it has become a sort of dolly mixture of reallity and myth to them. the reason for this is that many people have and are allowing rationalism to influence their faith.

It is very similair to Satan descieving Eve in the Garden of Eden, by saying to her ‘You will not die!  We so need to believe and not allow anything to take away from us the facts of our faith and the truth of the bible applied everday in our lives.   Genesis 3:4,   2Corinthians 11:3,   Ephesians 6:11-13,   Titus 1:9.

15
Nov
13

GM. How do we know? Part-Two.

Adding In.

I am sure that you have noticed over the last few months the adding in of new foods, types of new fruits replacing something that already exists. i will take two fruits that are newer on our supermarket shelves ‘passion fruits and persimmns.

If you look closely at the fruits from the outside they are different from what you would expect to see.  When you open them up, the persimmon has no seeds. That is a dead give away that it is genetically modified. These two fruits and perhaps many others generally suffer from a short shelf life span, but they now will last much longer.

The problem with GM is that we do not really know what the long term effects will be on the human body. Another question is it alright to not worry what the masses are eating, as long as those of a certain status do not?

Genesis 1:11,   Job 4:8,    Psalm 126:5-6,    Eccliasiastes 11:6,   Isaiah 55:10,   Matthew 13:25,   1 Corinthians 15:37,    Revelation 8:7.

08
Nov
13

GM, How do we know? Part-One.

What are we eating?

Some years ago GM came to be serious matter that concerned many people around the world. Monsanto seems to be the main source of suspicion in relation to genetically modified foods. They have the market, yet very few people really know or understand what most of our food is made up of.

The problems with food is that there is not enough of it to go around the world. It also costs a lot of money to grow and harvest and relies on the weather to produce high yields.

The answers to food management  are found in the bible, we as believers working in any aspect of farming or wholesale, really need to be wise in planning ahead as Joseph.  Genesis 41,  John 15:1-10.

01
Nov
13

War. Part-Three.

Human Nature.

People cannot help anger and hateing each other, they find excuses to start a row over nothing. on a domestic scale this can become bad enough, but on larger global scale it will lead to war and conflicts. A third party can help to resolve any situation, but then the hardness of our stubborness sets in to block off the mediation.

Wars are caused by the inherent Sin and selfishness of the human heart a condition that does not even leave those who have faith in God. But to have faith in God and a personal relationship does help us to see our own faults and ask the lord to help us, intead of ignoring or denying in the first place.

Genesis 6:5,  Deuteronomy 29:19,  Proverbs 6:17-19,  Matthew 15:18-19,  Mark 7:21-23.

25
Oct
13

Terroism. Part-Two.

‘My/Our Agenda!

Everyone has their own agenda, but we have no right to force on others? Terrorist new and old don’t play by the rules of engagement, they have their rules to use fear and intimidation to get what they want. In 1605 Guy Fawkes had the Democratic ability to place out his beliefs, but instead he chose to use violence to kill the king, Parliament and quite a large number of innocent people in the wooden city.

The bible tells us that when the Jews were able to return to the land by the Emperor of Babylonia, they came under attack from their old enemies.  We do so much need to have a faith in god today, because of people trying to use violence to push their multinational world vision, through terrorism.

Nehemiah 2:10, 19,   4:7-8,  Psalm 5:5-6,  21:7,   Proverbs 29:10-11,   Matthew 10:26,  28,  31.

18
Oct
13

Terrorism. Part-One.

Freedom Fighters or Murderers?

Modern terrorism is not really much different from anything that was done in the past. It depends which country that we will choose to look at first. In the UK it has been Irish based terror, which has and continues now for over 200 years. It depends which side of the fence that you might be on?

Europe has and many other countries around the world suffer terribly from these kinds of attacks almost on a daily basis. Everyone will point their finger at Israel in how its treats the Palestinians and yet since 7/7 Britain now faces home grown terror from its own Muslim population.

The bible tells all the time about war and murder, most of the books in the Old Testament tell of how Israel had to fight the nations around them. But God is very clear about the differences of a war and murder.   Exodus 20:1-26, The Book of Joshua.




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