Devotion
Christmas
I heard a story on the radio of a woman who was out Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys and everything else imaginable. And after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it […]
Humility
“A human being with grace is a human being who has been emptied, who stands impoverished before God, who has nothing of which to boast.” “Poverty of spirit is the meeting point of heaven and earth, the mysterious place where God and humanity encounter each other, the point where infinite mystery meets concrete existence.” /Poverty […]
A Lost Diary
By Rev. Geoff Leslie, Barham Baptist Renovators pulling up the old lino at the Bethlehem hotel rear kitchen found this fascinating diary from one of the earlier innkeepers. Let me share a few extracts. The diary starts with these rules of the trade. “Hospitality rules: 1. Always give the customer what they want. 2. Choose […]
Christians
by Maya Angelou When I say… “I am a Christian” I’m not shouting “I’m clean livin'” I’m whispering “I was lost, Now I’m found and forgiven.” When I say… “I am a Christian” I don’t speak of this with pride. I’m confessing that I stumble and need Christ to be my guide. When I say… […]
When Christmas isn’t merry
When Christmas isn’t merry. One of the pastors at my church often reminds us that, while Christmas is a time of great rejoicing when we celebrate the birth of Jesus, it is also a time when the lonely are lonelier and the poor are poorer. I recently found a few great articles talking about the […]
Mending The Heart (john Claypool)
MENDING THE HEART My favorite preaching-writer John Claypool has written a brilliant little book Mending the Heart (Cowley Publications 1999) Here’s his wisdom about how to deal with your woundedness: Preface: First, we must accept the fact that our parents often neglect or mistreat their children in an effort to have their own needs met. […]
My Candle
Psalm 18:28 /”For You light my lamp; The Lord God illumes my darkness”/ Very rarely are we in darkness. In today’s modern age of electricity, we don’t darkness is not a difficulty. However, in David’s time, darkness was a time of fear, a time of uncertainty. It is known by historians that, in ancient Egypt, […]
The Secret
One day, one friend asked another, ‘How is it that you are always so happy? You have so much energy, and you never seem to get down.’ With her eyes smiling, she said, ‘I know the Secret!’ ‘What secret is that?’ To which she replied, ‘I’ll tell you all about it, but you have to […]
Wearing them down with love
“Throw us into jail and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence at midnight hour to beat us till we are half-dead, and we shall still love you. Be assured that we shall wear you down by our […]
How Moralty is Destroying Holiness
HOW MORALITY IS DESTROYING HOLINESS For many Christians, “holiness” conjures up musty images of revival meetings, gospel singers, and old-time religion-along with stern prohibitions against drinking, dancing, and playing cards. And many are happy to leave these notions of holiness in the past. Yet even in our era of megachurches and post-modern emerging churches, holiness […]
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