This morning, reading through 1 Corinthians 15 in my devotions I was blessed by three verses—10, 33 & 58, and I felt a nudge to share it with you. The first, a word of inspiration. Paul says, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not...
“I’m going fishing,” said Simon Peter. For centuries that has probably been our own normal, knee-jerk response to broken fellowship with God. To seek the once familiar things, things rooted in our past—in a sense to head back to “Egypt.” But the result of that decision always leads to barrenness. “Children, you do not have...
It’s Almost Here… It’s the last day of 2019, before it slips into the annals of history to take its place amid the collective memories of past years. And 2020 will be upon us—ready or not! Our readiness matters little, as my mother loved saying: “Time and tide wait for no man (sic).” However, whatever...
The winds hurled themselves across the boat, lightning split the skies, thunder added it’s resounding roar and the torrent came in sheets of cascading rain. Fear gripped them. With wild eyes they looked at the storm, fishermen though they were—this one scared them. Yet, lying in the stern, oblivious to the unrelenting fury of the...
I heard this line on Christian radio: “Broken people can be helped; hardhearted ones rarely can.” True, isn’t it? As noted Christian writer Vance Havner once said: “God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It...
Traveling back to Mumbai I saw a headline that made me sick to the stomach: “Three year old girl raped and beheaded.” How evil and despicable is the prevailing perversity, isn’t it? True the Bible has warned us of these kinds of days: Consider Proverbs 2:14 “Who delight in doing evil and rejoice in the...
William Arthur Ward, said: “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. “ How true, isn’t it? Encouragement is such a positive reinforcement in our lives. And quite often we don’t...
How fair do you want to play in a world that doesn’t follow your rules. You find a cell phone, you trace its owner and return it. But a week later you lose your cell phone and find out too late that the bloke who found it has called all the friends he has around...
She had to have been bothered. Questions of favouritism must have surfaced-again. This just didn’t seem right. An angel to the rescue. How convenient. How unfair. Sure she was glad for Peter. And his family. But then… the tears wouldn’t stop. What about her James-her Son of Thunder. Her strong Boanerges. Bold, unafraid, ambitious and...
Quite often, we are our own worst critics. We give ourselves no room for mistakes, harshly react when they happen, and then get upset that the change we want to see in our lives doesn’t happen overnight. The consequence? We lose our joy, and peace evaporates. I remember many years ago when learning (or trying...
