When Others Find Favour – Grace is in full supply! Forty days of spirituality leading up to the celebration of Easter! It is a time of preparation and an opportunity to go deeper with God. This means that it’s a time for personal reflection that prepares our hearts and minds for Good Friday and Easter …
Perfect Joy in Suffering More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5: 3-5) …
Be strong and courageous “…Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9) Being strong and courageous usually does not necessarily mean that we employ massive actions. More frequently, it consists of small decisions you and I make every day that show …
A MOUNTAIN-TOP, THEN A VALLEY One of the interesting experiences in our spiritual journey is when we have a mountain-top encounter with our Lord, only to descend into the valley of defeat and despondency straight after that. When Moses received the Ten Commandments up on Mt Sinai, he had a close encounter with God that …
Faith in the Storm Have you ever been in the situation where you felt that God was nowhere in the struggles of life that you were going through? Maybe you thought that God is perhaps taking too long to show up or is just not interested in those storms that overwhelm you? Do these feelings …
RUTH HALEY BARTON: MORE FINELY ATTUNED “‘Yet even now, says the Lord, repent and return to me with all your heart.’ (Joel 2:12) “The real question of the Lenten season is: How will I repent and return to God with all my heart? This begs an even deeper question: Where in my life have I …