When a musician plans for a concert, there is consideration of how long their session is and an arrangement of songs that allows for elaborate expression of their artistery. Every now and again however, there are moments of unscripted interaction or request for songs that may be by popular request. While accomodating these are at... Continue Reading →
ARE YOU AUTHORIZED TO TAKE ACTION ?
1 Corinthians 4:14-15 I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. The Pharisees in the day of Jesus did this quite... Continue Reading →
HAVE HEALTHY EXPECTATIONS
Whenever anyone enters into a venture, they do so with expectations, goals and targets. When all goes as expected, there is cause for celebration. So what if 'life happens?' A storm here, a wave there and those expectations are not met? What does one do? The goal of today's message is to bring to attention... Continue Reading →
HIS COMMANDS ARE NOT BURDENSOME
DAY 96/366 1 John 5:3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, Other renditions replace the words 'not burdensome' with alternatives such as 'not grevious, not difficult or not oppressive.Unfortunately, that is exactly the description we give to the commandments:Â as restricting, limiting and unbending.... Continue Reading →
YOU ARE THE ANSWER TO A QUESTION
DAY 116 John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. '"Today, I will do whatever I want and say whatever I want'. That sounds very much like a regular pep talk you might tell yourself at some point in... Continue Reading →
TRANSFORMATION
281/365 Luke 17:16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. It is of interest the that of the ten lepers who were healed, the spotlight falls on the one who returned to Jesus to give thanks. Even more interesting is that one line ' he... Continue Reading →
MORE TO DO
MORE TO DO 100/365 Isaiah 49:6 Indeed He says, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the... Continue Reading →
THE PLACE OF OBEDIENCE
The covenant of God with His people is encapsulated in one word 'obedience'. Therefore in Isaiah 1:19, it is written 'If you are willing and obedient, you will enjoy the good of the land.' This is further emphasised in the words of Moses which proceeded the blessing or curses presented in Deuteronomy 28, where the... Continue Reading →
‘MADE ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN’
DAY 38 OF 365 IN 2021 1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak I became weak in order to win the weak. I have [in short] become all things to all men, that I might by all means (at all costs and in any and every way) save some [by winning them to faith in Jesus... Continue Reading →