Excellence and holiness must become synonymous to us. We excel not only in our work, but in acts of charity towards our neighbours. Daniel stood before Kings. So did Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Paul and Jesus. They could not have done this if they did not strike the right balance between inward character and outward actions.
Although the insanely popular ad has faded from our screens, I’ve brought it to our remembrance today as a reminder of a different kind of milk; Spiritual Milk.
Like Jesus, Isaac was a son of promise, long awaited by his parents. The sons of (s)laughter were born under unnatural circumstances. Isaac was born to a mother who was old and barren while Jesus was born to young woman who was a virgin. Two extreme situations that should have made it impossible to conceive a child, yet with God – all things are possible.
You don’t need to roll out the good old Romans 8:28, It all works together for your good sermon.
Stop and think, What exactly is romance? As long as we behave like those described in 2 Timothy 3: 1-6, then romance is dead. Till mankind can demonstrate otherwise, not just to those we are intimate with, but to everyone around us: both stranger and family alike – then I put it to you that romance. is. dead.
#ThinkingTuesday – Change your thinking; Change your life. As vessels, we must not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. — Romans 1: 16a. Those who accept Christ as their Lord & Saviour become vessels of salvation. Christians are the vessels that carry the gospel, which contains power…
#ThinkingTuesday – Change your thinking; Change your life. This week’s quote is from John MacArthur: Don’t be anxious about baseless arguments against Christmas…rather, be focused on the Christ of Christmas; giving all diligence to remembering the real reason for the season. — John MacArthur We actually don’t realise it but there are two types of atheists: those…
When Mary finds out she’s pregnant with the Jesus, she sings a song — an interesting one that really illustrates the spirit behind Christmas. Mary demonstrates to us that the spirit of christmas is not the spirit of family bonding, or the spirit of giving, or even the spirit of rejoicing. All of those things are well and good, but Mary teaches us that the true spirit of Christmas is a spirit of…
If Jesus had never been born, there would exist only one spiritual destination for our eternal souls; a dark and tormenting place where we would be eternally separated from God.
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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