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23
Nov
18

Christmas Preparations?

Most people share across the Monotheistic Divide!

December 1st and 2nd is the Jewish festival of the dedication of the Temple that covers nine days and nine presents, then comes Latin Christmas 24th December to 26th, followed by the Eastern Orthodox, after the New Year 31st to 1st January, 1st to 7th and last of all the Armenian and some Coptic’s the 19th of January!

Islam marks the birth of the great Prophet Jesus/Isa around the same times as Christians do, but for them he means nothing more and for some fanatics they can always find and excuse to murder ordinary people?

But the facts of Christmas are slowly being eroded in western society by black Friday commercialism, and the essential message of Jesus the Saviour of the world coming in human flesh and born of the virgin seems to be lost?

Isaiah 9:6-7,   43:11,  Luke 1:28-36,   2:11,   John 4:42,   Acts 4:12,   13:23,    Titus 3:4.

09
Nov
18

armistice?

culmination!

Its one hundred years since the end of World War-I (1914-18), ‘The wars to end all wars? But the truth was it was the beginning of a new age in warfare with the introduction of many new things, radio communications, mustered gas, flamethrowers and the tank!

It was also the age of the first use of aerial combat from ‘Dog fighting to bombing raids, by German airships over London and all gentlemanly of course!

What was gained was enough knowledge for world war-II (1939-45), were eugenics was fulfilled in the Nazi Holocaust and new atomics and rocketry  were also part of the new culmination of wars!

God wants us believers to really remember those who went before us and to see what he has done for us in redeeming us back to Him through Jesus! To understand that we have a precious salvation and the promise of an eternal life with Him!

Numbers 31:6,  Judges 3:10,  Psalm 120:7,  Jeremiah 14:15,  Acts 4:26,  Hebrews 9:11-12,  14,  12:1-2,  Revelation 17:14.

05
Oct
18

Fire, fruit and Pruning! Two.

Our accountability and Responsibility?

Our relationship with God, through Jesus is part of the New Life that we have entered into, but this is a two way friendship and not a material or spiritual reliance! We ask and God will just keep giving more and more, we too have a role to play in serving, worshipping, praying and witnessing our faith to others?

The worlds ways today have invaded the Church in many ways, that has allowed believers to be excused of many areas? These areas cover the practical side of concern, activity and friendship without bias, and one has to wonder why the numbers are going down!

Fellowship or mixing in some more traditional congregations is failing because of racism, class, respectability and even dress, we have become self appointed judges? Instead of looking out for peoples problems and trying to help each other at cost!

Genesis 39:6,  1 Chronicles 13:14,   Psalm 65:9,   95:7,   Luke 4:18,   Acts 20:7,   1 Timothy 3:5,  Hebrews 10:34.

01
Jun
18

Fire, fruit and Pruning! One.

The role of the Holy Spirit in the believers New Life?

When we are born again of the final atonement of Jesus death on the cross and resurrection on the third day from the grave, because of our faith and repentance we individually receive the Holy Spirit!

First there is an inner fire, a flame of mixed passion and compassion for the lost around us, family and friends! We are eager with share our testimony and witness our faith and from this comes fruit, but we have also been given fruit the ability to use these divine and spiritual resources?

Then when we have learned how to use these gifts, we also will learn how to prune back the elements that are not profitable, so that all may be refined to start afresh and press on?

John 15:1-16,   Acts 2:3,   1 Corinthians 3:13,   12:6-30,   Galatians 5:22,    Jude 1:23.

18
May
18

Crap rap and driller Killer? One.

Gang warfare Music!

London, U.K. has a real problem with gang warfare violence, with over seventy people this year murdered by both, guns, knives and acid attacks!

But what is behind these attacks is both rivalry, honour and drugs! These are the 21st Century gang wars of the inner cities and provincial towns and it is fired up by social media,  rap and Driller music which promotes murder?

Young people will always be drawn into things, we were all young once and influenced by the something or the other? But believers need to speak up and be heard in the communities where ever one is and we need to help young people find faith in Jesus as their Lord and saviour!

Genesis 19:4,   Joshua 6:23,   Proverbs 20:29,   Acts 2:17,    1 John 2:13-14.

04
May
18

Ever Darkness. One.

The Lords Return!

We have been warned in the Holy Bible that the world is getting worse in its lack of morality and also in its sincerity towards each other!

We are warned that the love of many will grow cold, this is more so with believers than with the world who are already there on the insides!

But we have to continue to live in the world and face daily hostility on different levels, sometimes insults, jeers and other times worse like threats and intimidation? But the answer to these problems is opposite to what the human nature demands anger and strife, we are asked to rejoice to be happy to praise God!

Psalm 7:17,  68:4,  Matthew 24:12,  Luke 10:21,  2 Corinthians 12:20,  1 Thessalonians 4:17,  James 4:1-4,  1 John 4:20,  Revelation 1:7.

21
Apr
18

My Witness?

Fact from Fiction!

When it comes to the resurrection of Jesus, the unbelievers make a big song and dance about who said what and there were only a few who knew Him?

But they have got it wrong, because over five-hundred people, not initially known to each other met with Jesus! Some were Romans, other travellers, doubters, who failed to fathom immediately the events in Jerusalem!

Today our media is packed with fake news, from government propaganda to unverified reporting and we are pump-up to the point where ae have to believe it!

But millions world-wide today can confess a faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus, He who has changed their mental attitudes and promised them Salvation in their New and changed Lives!

Deuteronomy 19:19,  John 3:3,  15-21,  8:17,  Romans 6:23,  1 Corinthians 15:6,  2 Corinthians 13:1.

06
Apr
18

The Darkness. Two.

Risen from the Dead!

It is still hard for many believers who accept that Jesus has died for their failure to then believe that the Man-God rose from the dead on the third day?

The challenge of faith is to believe in the impossible and then apply it, this is much more than just trusting it is proving God to be true to His word!

Without the resurrection, there can be no Salvation, no overcoming the sting of death and no entering into the promised New Life! Over five-hundred people witnessed Jesus in Israel between His rising on the third day and His Ascension back to heaven!

John 11:25,   Acts 10:39,   Philippians 3:10,   Hebrews 11:1-3,  1 Peter 1:23.

23
Mar
18

The Darkness. One.

Exodus and Easter.

God made His presence known on these two important occasions of deliverance for His people Israel from their slavery in Egypt and for our individual deliverance by Jesus shedding of blood on the cross/stake/tree for our sins!

God in His character is not dark, but rather pure light, truth and holiness and without sin, but we are told something of that dwelling place that we can never enter and that is a place of darkness!

This time of the year should be one of reflection on our own calling and salvation, while also hoping and praying for those lost around us that they might see the light that Jesus offers and turn to Him in confession and repentance of their own failures, seeking His forgiveness?

Genesis 1:2,   Exodus 10:21-22,   2 Samuel 22:10-12,   Psalm 18:11,   Matthew 27:45.

20
Oct
17

Mind, Heart and Soul. One.

We Choose?

It is easy to blame all the evil and bad in the world on the Devil, when the truth has more to do with our own human choices? Jesus told the people in ear shot of Him that it was a mans heart that was were the origins of our own actions stem from!

It does not matter how many rules you think you can keep, or the way you choose to live, meditate, use different ways to form your lifestyle? Sin will always get in the way, our inherited condition will allow us to choose from a selfish standpoint, from lust, desires and what we want?

On the other hand we claim to have faith in the death of Jesus on the cross/stake/tree for our sins and forgiveness and His resurrection from the dead into our New Life? Then we are daily challenged with how to apply love to those who hate us and try to us either physical or mental harm!

Genesis 4:7, 6:5-6,  Job 1:8,  Psalm 10:9-10,  Matthew 15:18-19,  Luke 6:45,  1 Peter 3:4,  Jude 1:4,  22-23.




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