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Five Rules For Happiness
Whatever your task, put yourselves into it, as done for the Lord and not for your masters… you serve the Lord Christ. Colossians 3: 23,24. Somewhere I came across these five rules for happiness: 1. The grass is NOT greener anywhere else. Life is what you make it. Avoid the ‘if only…’ syndrome at all […]
The Secret Of Enthusiasm
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:10 On Arturo Toscanini’s 80th birthday his son Walter was asked what great musical achievement was his father’s greatest accomplishment. ‘For him there can be no such thing,’ Walter replied. ‘Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing […]
Security And Significance
Wives, be subject to your husbands… Husbands, love your wives. Ephesians 5:22,25. A simple view of the main ‘mid-life crisis’ goes like this: The wife and mother seeks security first, significance second – until the ’empty nest’ looms and she goes back into the workforce. The husband and father seeks significance first, security second – […]
The Sin Of Confessionalism
Woe to you Pharisees! For you… neglect justice and the love of God. Luke 11:42. I was listening to an address on cassette tape by the great Palestinian Christian Elias Chacour. He was talking about being a refugee in his own land, robbed of home and dignity by Zionists. He went on to talk about […]
For Some, Commitment Is Costly
Do not fear… do not be intimidated. 1 Peter 3:14. Today I read of a medical doctor in Zimbabwe who closed a box of surgical needles after an operation on a small child. One wasn’t lying flat, and it pierced the box, and his glove and went into his thumb. A simple little accident, you […]
Talk About Your Feelings
Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another… Malachi 3:16. I’ve just come home from Dale’s funeral. Dale (his real name) was a ‘strong silent’ type, apparently uncomplicated, devoted to his wife and family, a very good orchardist, and before that a first class honours agricultural science student. He was also secretary of […]
Are You A Prisoner Of Your ‘Scripting’ ?
Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kennizite. Joshua 14:6. Caleb is one of my biblical heroes. We don’t know much about him. He never stopped growing. His name, suggests one scholar, means ‘all heart’ – he reminds us of Bunyan’s character Mr Greatheart. Caleb ‘took life by the throat’ and confronted difficulties head-on. At age 85 […]
The Problem Of Pain
O Lord, why do you cast me off? Why do you hide your face from me? Wretched and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am desperate. Psalm 88:14,15. Books about C.S.Lewis are still proliferating. ‘Shadowlands’ has now titled a stage-play and two movies about C.S.Lewis and Joy Davidman, who […]
God Has Made Us For Himself
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1. C. S Lewis wrote somewhere: No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that ‘In the beginning God made heaven and earth.’ How, then, do we relate to such a God? Here I […]
Peace I Leave With You
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. John 14:27. Peace is not simply the absence of trouble. It is a deep experience of serenity in the midst […]
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