November 30th, 2009
Yesterday we did our first service in Advent at church. My wife and I did a reading and then I lit the first candle and prayed. This is my first year in a more traditional church that lights candles and celebrates Advent formally. I am really enjoying it.
Here is a copy of our reading from [...]
November 27th, 2009
Recently I have been reading and re-reading the New Testament book of Matthew. As I have been working my way through it I have come across a few interesting things. One that I want to share today comes from Matthew chapters 8 & 9.
One thing that really stood out to me was that when someone [...]
November 24th, 2009
I was reading John 17 again this morning. It touches on unity or being one and why this is so important. Have a read of verses 20-23 from John 17. It is a prayer of Jesus about the disciples and the future followers.
20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all [...]
November 23rd, 2009
The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to “never stop praying” in the NLT or to ”pray continually” as the NIV puts it. Both of these translations give us a clear thought of being in constant conversation with God. For me this works out in a couple of ways.
1. Set times – Each day I have [...]
November 19th, 2009
One of the things I have been reflecting on lately is that Jesus often touched people. It didn’t matter if they had Leprosy or other diseases he still touched them with compassion.
This is particularly interesting because in Jesus’ times if you touched someone who had leprosy you instantly made yourself ritually unclean. You then had [...]
November 17th, 2009
One of the hardest things we face in this life is suffering. Long term illness, depression, the loss of love ones are hard to make sense of at times. We can often sit back and wonder why this is happening to us.
Several years ago I wrote an article that talked about some of the things [...]
November 16th, 2009
In Matthew 8:14-15 we see an interesting healing that involved the Apostle Peter’s mother-in-law. It says…
“When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, Peter’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever. But when Jesus touched her hand, the fever left her. Then she got up and prepared a meal for him”.
This healing was just after the [...]
