RSS FeedA PRAYER IN OLD AGE
My Lord, God, the awful burden I feel in ageing is that I am your useless servant. My body is lumpish and clumsy, its beauty gone; I am stiff on my thickened legs, and cannot speed about serving others and you. My thoughts seem not to come out clearly, and I irritate...
THE PURPOSE OF SUFFERING – THE END IN VIEW
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.” (Romans 8:18,19) “This paragraph, from verse 18 to verse 25, is the classic...
THE HOPE OF GLORY
“Glory” is a biblical word. It describes a state, a condition of life that reflects the presence of a pure and holy God. In Isaiah’s vision in the temple, when he saw the Lord seated on a throne, he heard the angels calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the...
DELIVERANCE FROM FEAR
“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father’.” (Romans 8:15, NIV) “Nor are you meant to relapse into the old slavish attitude of fear-you have been adopted into the...
HOW TO BE LED BY THE SPIRIT
“Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.” (Romans 8:14) When Paul and his companions were traveling on their missionary journeys they were prevented by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. They tried to enter Bithynia, but...
THE MEANING OF SUFFERING
As we honor, on this Memorial weekend, those who have suffered and died on our behalf, we remember that the inheritance of Christ includes, not only glory, but also suffering: “we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.” (Romans 8:17)...
AT WITS’ END
They were at their wits’ end. Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress. (Psalm 107:27-28) Are you standing at “Wits’ End Corner,” Christian with troubled brow? Are you thinking of what is before you, And all you are...
THE PENTECOSTAL POWER OF TRUTH AND LOVE
At his Ascension Jesus promised the disciples that “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses… to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). When the day of Pentecost arrived a mighty rushing wind and tongues of fire rested on...
EVERYTHING HAS ITS PRICE
Everything has its price. If you want to go along with the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, you have to accept the consequences – a life on the dark side, opposed to the light and love of God with all the sickness that entails. If you want to live in...
IT IS NOT ABOUT ME
Forty days after the Resurrection Jesus was taken up into heaven. From the earliest beginnings of the Christian church the Ascension of Jesus is counted among the primary facts of faith. It signifies many things about Jesus: his return to the Father, his reigning at...
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