For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. Mark 8 v 35 (NIV) Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s […]
What is our Mission?
Then he turned to the host. “The next time you put on a dinner, don’t just invite your friends and family and rich neighbours, the kind of people who will return the favour. Invite some people who never get invited out, the misfits from the wrong side of the tracks. You’ll be—and experience—a blessing. They […]
Blessed
“You’re blessed when you care. At the moment of being ‘care-full,’ you find yourselves cared for. Matthew 5:7 MSG The merciful.—The thought is the same as that afterwards embodied in the Lord’s Prayer. They who are pitiful towards men their brethren are ipso facto the objects of the divine pity. The negative aspect of the […]
Shine Your Light
Jesus said, “In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.” Matthew 5 v 16 Jenny is an ordinary girl who decided one day that she wanted to shine her light in her school. On Monday morning she went into the playground […]
Risks
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before the crowd is to risk their love. To love is to […]
God Knows
Omniscience of God – God Knows All Things “What’s the price of a pet canary? Some loose change, right? And God cares what happens to it even more than you do. He pays even greater attention to you, down to the last detail—even numbering the hairs on your head! So don’t be intimidated by all […]
Aches and Groans
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know […]
God loves you
How much does God love you? He stretched wide his arms and said…. This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. John 3 […]
Content whatever the circumstances
Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. Philippians 4 v 13 Is that possible? The best answer I can give you is not to focus on what you haven’t got and to focus on what you do. In the middle of […]
What Lasts?
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. 1 Corinthians 13 v 13 This verse comes as a challenge to the Corinthian church and comes as a challenge […]
Welcome to the party
In the movie Avengers, Natasha Romanoff says, “I don’t see how that’s a party.” I think she’s right but for different reasons. The Bible in Luke 15:7 says this: “Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and lost one. Wouldn’t you leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until […]
I don’t know
The dictionary definition of wisdom is “the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement; the quality of being wise.” To often we attempt to answer a question because we want to be known as knowledgeable, when in fact we waffle and a simple answer of I don’t know would have been better. Let’s practice […]