Tag: Jesus
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The Cloud
I guess we can all have experiences that are very hard to put into words. As followers of Jesus, we are mindful that the world looks for opportunities to mock us. That’s certainly the apprehension I feel in deciding to write down an event that happened to me at Nicholaston burrows one day. I know…
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Don’t look to the thorns, or to the flesh, but look to Jesus
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. (2 Cor 4:16) My dear friend Robb’s earthly body died from skin cancer in 2006. I will never forget him, he was and is a tremendous man of God who was integral and had…
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All that we need
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8) Christianity didn’t make sense. I remember standing in front of a church pastor with my fist gripped in my pocket, wanting to smash his face. He was sitting in a chair, smiling at…
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Jesus is with you every day of your life!
“I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” It is so easy to read these words from Matthew 28:20 and overlook what Jesus is saying. But when you hit the brake and really take time to meditate on it, these words are truly life changing! Jesus is literally saying that He…
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Stand Up For Kindness
One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” Does not the…
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What Is ‘Life’ After All?
“This is no life. No life at all.” The words were muttered in agony from a skeletal old man, propped up on white pillows in a hospital bed with a blanket half-wrapped around his thin legs. He had frazzled, balding hair with circular glasses. His body was arched to the side and his striped pajama…
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Absent From The Body
I ‘We’ve seen many marvellous things in this life but the eye has not seen, the ear has not heard what heaven is going to be like. Heaven is going to be a wonderful place. When we die, we are present with the Lord straightaway; absent from the body.’ [John Price] _On Friday, I took…
