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How good are you at waiting? I am not good at it at all. Patience is both the fruit of the Spirit and an aspect of love. It does not come naturally to us. We are impatient creatures. The younger you are the more impatient you are. But even as we age we have difficulty...
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR THE FALL
My volume 4 of SOUL FOOD: DAILY DEVOTIONS FOR THE HUNGRY, for October, November and December is available to order from www.amazon.com. Just as our bodies need food our souls need spiritual nourishment each day. These daily devotionals will strengthen and sustain...
OUR GOD OF HOPE WHO BRINGS JOY AND PEACE
How we view and experience the character of God determines our own spiritual health. All too often we craft God in our own image – of what we want God to be for us. Or we reject the image of God that has been modeled to us by the culture and the authority figures in...
DE TOCQUEVILLE ON ENTITLEMENTS AND THE UNDERMINING OF THE FAMILY
I have been reading Theodore Dalrymple’s volume of essays entitled, OUR CULTURE, WHAT’S LEFT OF IT. A British psychiatrist and commentator Dalrymple has practiced medicine on four continents, a British inner-city hospital and a prison. In his chapter How To Read A...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST (Part Three)
The third reason I believe in Jesus Christ is because of the transforming power of Christ and his Gospel that makes him the hope of the world. Political programs and parties come and go, but the Gospel of the kingdom of heaven is eternal. It is that Gospel which has...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST (Part Two)
The second reason I believe in Jesus Christ is because of sin and evil. I grew up in the aftermath of World War II and learned from survivors of the horrors of Japanese prisoner of war camps and German concentration camps. A book that made a great impression on me as...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST (Part One)
It would take a whole book to give you the reasons why I believe in Jesus Christ and follow him as my Savior and Lord. Those reasons have been accumulating over a lifetime. Some of them have been discarded or changed as I have grown older. Others are newer as I have...
WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF THE SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDAL IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS REMEDY?
The release of a grand jury report on the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse over many years in Pennsylvania prompts me to post this diagnosis which I shared three years ago. The question to be asked is why bishops, and others in the world-wide Roman Catholic...
MY FAREWELL SERMON TO MY HOME CHURCH IN 1964
ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH, HOKITIKA, NEW ZEALAND In August 1964 I was preparing to leave home to travel to Durham University, England for my theological education. You can imagine that it was a great adventure for a twenty three year old to leave all his friends and...
ARE YOU CONVINCED OF THE POWER OF CHRIST?
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our...
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