DON’T TAKE THE BAIT

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or hunger, nakedness or danger or the sword? What is the goal when a believer goes through tough times? Let me ask this another way: what is the end objective when the enemy brings hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty... Continue Reading →

WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE ?

Whenever the question in today's title arises, we can expect choices to be made. In Exodus 32:26 we read "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? come to me!” St Paul's opening remarks in today's text reads: " Demas, in love with this present world,... Continue Reading →

THERE HAS TO BE A TRAINING GROUND

Reference text: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Today's letter to Timothy presents the criteria Bishops had to meet to qualify for office, and this was a tall list encompassing maturity in both character and stature. However, the statement that is the core of our discourse is found in 1 Timothy 3:5 ' For if someone does not... Continue Reading →

THERE HAS TO BE A TRAINING GROUND

Reference text: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Today's letter to Timothy presents the criteria Bishops had to meet to qualify for office, and this was a tall list encompassing maturity in both character and stature. However, the statement that is the core of our discourse is found in 1 Timothy 3:5 ' For if someone does not... Continue Reading →

LOVING IS HARD

Reference text: Luke 6:27-38 The two greatest commands in scripture are summarised in two short phrases "love for God" and "love for neighbour". If you thought either of those are simple, then you really have not understood love; t's length, depth, breadth and width. It is the expanse of these dimensions that moved God to... Continue Reading →

WHAT FRAGRANCE WILL YOU EMIT?

Reference text: John 12:1-11 John 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Without knowing what was physically in the jar, once that Alabaster jar Mary was... Continue Reading →

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