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To my dear friends who read my blog, I pray that you will be encouraged by it and that you will get closer to God through it.

While I was on holiday here in Coventry, UK, my dear friend and I went to a midweek service of which he is part of the Worship Team. It was nice to get together with his church family again as I had already met them on the Sunday.

After the Word of God was preached, people were encouraged to go out for prayer. I didn't think I needed prayer at…

If you were to measure the width of your face, including ears, it would probably be within 12 inches.

Okay, now measure vertically from the top of your head, including hair, if any, to the bottom of your chinney chin chin. About 12 - 15 inches, right?

Alright, in this 12 X 15 inch frame is basically our recognizable self. We take pictures for identification, driving, our sweeties, etc. and  means of recognizing each other is found in this "frame of…

Christian Fathers

 The greatest commandment in Scripture is this: “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength” (Deuteronomy 6:5). Going back to verse 2, we read, “So that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.” Following Deuteronomy 6:5, we read, “These…

Earthly Father

(Exodus 20:12) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. (Deuteronomy 5:16) Honour the father and thy mother , as the Lord thy God hath command thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth…

Ministers of God, Part 2

Seniority and Paternalism

1 Peter 4:10: "As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God."

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"God will eventually test you in all areas of your life, but He will not let your trials become greater than you can bear. Let God use trials to help you grow. Do not measure your progress, your strength, or what God is doing. His work is not less efficient because what He is…

How often does God answer your prayers? Of course, we know that God always answers prayers, it’s just that his answer is not always what we were hoping for. ‘No’ is technically an answer to our prayers. But how often does God give you what you are asking of him in prayer? How often does God say ‘Yes’?

During…

“Oh how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” Psalm 119:97

Christianity is not a legal relationship, it is a love relationship. Ten thousand “don'ts” will never make you one iota more like the Lord Jesus Christ. It is Jesus Himself Who makes you like Him. But you…

Those…

13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that JESUS died and rose again, even so, through JESUS, GOD will bring with HIM those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the LORD, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the LORD, will not proceed those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the LORD himself…

Ministers of God, Part 1

Who Are Ministers of God?

1 Corinthians 3:5-7: "Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters,…

Keeping in view the themes of Romans—such as Romans 5.1-2, “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.”  We have access to God through Jesus Christ; and one day, it will be because of that, we will live forever with God.  Consider this:

“Many years ago two of my daughters and I were in Washington, D.C., where I spoke at a church…

Two words, differentiated by two letters, have two contrasting meanings. “Obvious” means clear, understandable, palpable, noticeable, apparent, evident, and observable. “Oblivious” means unaware, unconscious, unmindful, ignorant, and insensible.

Two groups…

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Ecclesiastes 3:1. There is a time for everything under Heaven and God established those times. Time is so elusive that no human being will ever completely figure it out, that realm belongs to God. Time just keeps going, but sometimes we run out of time. Our lives are engulfed and ordered by time. Time is all around us, it moves past us yet…

In many cultures, life is centered around food. Very few people in the western world would go for more than 10 or 12 hours without food or drink. Besides the fact that food is built into culture,…

Revelation 17

New King James Version (NKJV)

The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast

 ¹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me,^[…