Sharing the Worship of Other Christians
By Not Known Heaven is a place of global worship. Believers from every corner of humanity unite to declare their adoration to the one God and Saviour (Rev 7:9-10). We have a taste of this on earth as we share in worship with other Christians. I have worshipped with the incredible exuberance of percussion, dance and song in Kenya and Nigeria; heard the deep harmonies of…
Give God His Worth by Praying to Him
By Not Known The Bible challenges us with its call that we ‘pray continually’ (1 Thess 5:17). This does not mean entering a monastery and spending every waking hour on our knees. (Although, some time praying on our knees is a good reminder of our submission and dependence on the Lord!). It means living the whole of life with an active awareness of God and…
Give God His Worth for who He is
By Not Known The first place to study worship is in the last book of the Bible. The worship of , heaven is the model for the church on earth, for heaven’s worship is perfect (Heb 8:1-2;9:11,23-24). All earthly worship is flawed, for we always bring imperfect hearts in worship of a God who deserves perfection. Heaven’s worship is directed towards God the Father…
Children of God
By Not Known Children can be a bother. Infants demand feeding and playing at untimely moments. Older children need to be sent here and there, let alone the mounting costs of child rearing. Teenagers have intriguing ways to unbalance their parents. And then they become young adults – clinging too closely to the parental home or striking out in too independent a path.…
Working With God
By Not Known The Scripture teaches that God saves. We don’t save ourselves. Nor is there a partnership between equals. As Eph 1:3-14 outlines, God has done all needed for our salvation in his works to predestine, justify, sanctify and glorify (Eph 1:3). And that is why all praise belongs to him for salvation and why it is all to his glory and none to us (Eph…
What Makes Us Sad/Glad?
By Not Known There are a lot sad people about town just now. Their paper wealth is tumbling in the stock market slide. Or perhaps their en bloc sale ‘fell over’ and they depend on a new and better offer being made and the market holding up. Just a little while ago many of these people were glad as the stock market surged up and up and en bloc offers abounded.…
Unlikely People
By Not Known They say that God moves in mysterious ways. This seems to be so when we look at the people that God welcomes into his kingdom. Consider: the coward who passed off his wife as his sister to protect himself and then became the father of God’s people (Abraham) the murderer who became the means of his people’s rescue (Moses) the prostitute who become…
What are you Seeking Today?
By Not Known There are different starting points in life where people like you and I first come to seek God. Some seek him out of times of trouble and sickness; others out of a sense of aimlessness and fear of the unknown; still others out of curiosity or a desire for some kind of spiritual blessings in life. God in all his wisdom and mercy does graciously draw people to…
Growth Involves Change
By Not Known Change is inevitable if we are growing. Growth involves change. Though many of us do not like change, it does not mean that we do not want to grow. Yet, we cannot desire one and not welcome the other. The key is to manage change as we grow. When we are drawn closer to the Lord and growing in our relationship with Him, we will experience change in our lives.…
Growing through Spiritual Adolescence
By Not Known Several people influenced me a great deal when I was growing up as a young Christian. These people poured their lives into me and helped me stand firm on a few areas that formed the foundation of my Christian life, Above all, four things figured well above many other things as these people gave of their time to nurture me to be who I am today. One: they…