Cnr of Knox St. & Liverpool Rd.
Cnr of Knox St. & Liverpool Rd.
“So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful creator and continue to do good.” 1 Peter 4:19
“For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.” (2 Corinthians 1:8-9)
Sometimes, even when we are doing the will of God, we [...]
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and of self-control”
(2 Timothy 1:7)
Here Paul reminds us of the Spirit’s ministry to believers when we are facing threats and personal crises. He tells us that God gives us courage, concern for others and self-control despite our deepest fears.
God’s [...]
“For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake… all this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.” (2 Corinthians 4:5,15)
In the account of the shipwreck in [...]
“The winds were against us… we made slow headway for many days and had difficulty… much time had been lost and sailing had become dangerous.” (Acts 27:4,7,9)
One of the most important things that we learn in the book of Acts is that God’s people frequently run into tremendous difficulties in doing God’s work. While many [...]
“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” (2 Corinthians 4:8-10)
One of the most important [...]
“Woe to those who were wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight… who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the innocent” (Isaiah 5:21,23)
In the final woe that Isaiah pronounces upon Israel he reminds us that the power and perversion of sin is present, not only in the [...]
“They say to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy to us what is right; prophesy smooth things, prophesy illusions, leave the way, turn aside from the path, stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel’…” (Isaiah 30:10, 11)
Art Linkletter, the famous Canadian American broadcaster once saw a small boy scrawling on a piece of paper, [...]
“Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land…A ten acre vineyard will produce only 22 litres of wine and 220 litres of seed only 22 litres of grain.” (Isaiah 5:8, 10)
“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8)