In this bhloggg, I’m keen to hear some of your thoughts on one or any of these random questions… It might inspire more posts from my side.
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“And they shall build up the ancient ruins, they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations”.
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He is the perfect Father, who sought me out while I was His mortal enemy, deep in sin. If I am saved by grace alone, then “it is no longer by works” (Romans 11:6). He put the seed of the gospel in my conscience, gave me over to conviction of sin, and led me to the Cross of Christ. I confessed with my mouth and believed in my heart....and the word says “I will be saved” (Romans 10:9).
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He is the perfect Father, who sought me out while I was His mortal enemy, deep in sin. If I am saved by grace alone, then “it is no longer by works” (Romans 11:6). He put the seed of the gospel in my conscience, gave me over to conviction of sin, and led me to the Cross of Christ. I confessed with my mouth and believed in my heart....and the word says “I will be saved” (Romans 10:9).
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We try hard to change things, so hard that if they change we take the credit. We just don't see the evidence of Grace when we live in prayerless perfectionism. It is at the same time egotistical and exhausting. God is perfect but not a perfectionist.
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I realize now more than ever what a difference there is between Christ and doctrine. Being Bible-based and teaching-centred is no guarantee of the softness of heart and firmness of faith that delights God.
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The modern church is not known for suffering. Many believers get very nervous when they experience any form of suffering and hardship. They rebuke the enemy and start to meticulously scrutinise their lives and past behavior. Surely Jesus did it all on the cross, He suffered so that we can live in fullness and prosperity. Every time I switch on the television the preaching is on the topics of headship, fullness, health and wealth. I cannot recall when last someone preached on cost, hardship, ...
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“I can’t get no, satisfaction, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah.” The famous song by the Rolling Stones is an outcry from the worldly prophets of the last 4 decades. Somehow they manage to capture the inability of all humanity to gain satisfaction from this world.
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During one of the amazing times of praise and worship I had a picture of a deep well. A well that produces cool, refreshing, thirst quenching water. A well does not prevent anybody drinking from it, neither can it stop someone from blocking it up. Someone digs a well to give water, a well gushes water from its internal source up and outward for the consumption and refreshing of others.
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Is Jesus enough? Enough for you in your life as it is currently? Enough in your church, for your church, before all other visions?Can Jesus really be enough?
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I’ll start with my end-point for this little ramble; We should not run after great men, but rather discover what they were running after. In Hebrews 13 we are told to remember our leaders who spoke to us the word of God, to consider the outcome of their way of life, and to imitate their faith. Their faith.
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Yesterday, I became aware of how easy it is to arrive at poor conclusions. I realized it while I was reading Isaiah. This is the verse that got me thinking along these lines in Isaiah 1v5. "Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."
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Those long, dusty stretches. Those painful longings that can even make the heart sick. We’ve all felt those pangs of desperation at times as we ‘wait upon the Lord’ for things promised but as yet unfulfilled. It’s hard, it’s long and dry at times but is a part of life that can’t be avoided.
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I have been mulling over in my mind, the topic of serving for a few months now. But it has been a struggle to articulate all I felt about it. How do we do it; how do we serve well? What if we stray towards works of the flesh and drivenness? All these thoughts have run through my mind over the last months, weighing on my heart, especially as from time to time I hear the complaining voices of the ‘saints’ which disturbs my heart. How can we complain when such a great debt of love has been ...
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When we were children growing up on our family farm, we would often have to move hay bales to feed the cattle. Many times we would stumble across a nest of mice in what looked like an ordinary bale of hay. When we saw something move that shouldn’t move or when we kicked the hay, we would see something that should not be there; if something shocked us and moved, we would kick it again! We would have hours of fun destroying these nests of mice before they could ruin our hard-worked-for hay!
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