Posts from July 2022

It does not matter what language is used, God’s desire is for all nations and all people to worship Him in truth and in spirit.  When we remember Pentecost, we find that while God created us in His own image, this image of God is multinational, multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual.  We read in Acts 2 how the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost in the form a violent blowing wind from heaven.  After what looked like tongues of fire rested on…

In the old Roman world, they did not think much of children.  In those days there were many cases of infanticide and child abandonment.  Christians of the first century had their jobs cut out for them trying to save many children who had been abandoned by their parents.  In Luke 18:15-17, we read about children who were presented to the Lord Jesus Christ.  They were very little children, who were thought very little of.  They did not have much value…

Google defines the word “praise” as, “to express warm approval or admiration of someone or something”.  It is synonymous with words such as acclaim, applaud, commend, acclamation, magnify, extol, celebrate, glorify, honor, and worship. My personal definition of praise is the joyful thanking and adoring of God, the celebration of His goodness, grace and mercy. Psalm 150: 6 (NLT) says “Let everything that breaths praise the Lord!” This simply implies that the act of praising is rightfully due to God alone. One…

In Mark 10:45, Jesus said that “He did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life a ransom for many. He is our example, so we are called to serve, and not to grab. While service is a self-choice, and a voluntary action, duty or labor is what we are told to do for wages, salaries and other forms of compensations. To serve simply means, to render help to others without an expectation or kickback.…

Many times, we find ourselves in positions where we have to do things that we are not really interested in.  It happens more often amongst the people of God.  The Church needs to set up a committee and a leader is needed, then you find no one wants to be the leader.  Somehow someone reluctantly takes the challenge while deep down inside they are not interested.  Quite often you find that it will take a special grace of God for…