Parents have rules for children to live by at home. Businesses have rules for employees to work by. Organizations have constitutions by which they operate. The Church has the Bible and in the Bible God provides rules for Church Governance. Although the true Church started long before Moses, God gave Moses a set of Ten […]
Category: Acts
Prone to Wander
Years ago, two of our grandsons and I went mountain climbing. We thought it would be a blast … and it was, but in a different way. Before I relate the story, after the event I realized why a friend of mine who taught at the Military Academy was totally sold out on the use […]
Saved from the Enemy
Why is it that parents tend to see just about everything their toddlers and children do? Do they have eyes behind their heads? Our children thought Jenny did! It was always … “Mommy, how do you know?” It’s not that mommy or daddy sees everything … rather it’s because they are older and wiser and […]
Holy, Holy, Holy
On Tuesday night passed I was standing outside our home with my friend Wayne. As we chatted I looked over my neighbor’s house and saw a half moon with a half circle, pencil line of light at the bottom. Although so thin it radiated quite some light. The beauty of the night sky is awesome. […]
Ushering in Messiah
There have been a few great men of God who did not have much education. Consider men like DL Moody and Billy Sunday. Then we have others who had no formal theological education who rose to become amongst the greatest preachers of all time … such as John Bunyan, Charles Spurgeon and Martin Lloyd Jones. […]
Miracles of Salvation
Britain enjoyed a monarch, queen Elizabeth the second, for 70 years, 214 days. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and 15 at the time of her death. He reign was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female sovereign in history. Like most people, […]
Promises Fulfilled
Family differences are one thing, family feuds that lead to such jealousy and hatred wanting death to remove the problem is another matter. The case of Joseph’s brothers was not like that of Rosemary Ndlovu. She was a … “police officer who killed her family members for insurance claims, with the help of hitmen. She […]
Families
Sadly, we live in a world where murder is easy and once executed there are no repercussions. Are you shocked at me saying this? Have you ever thought about abortion … that tools designed to do away with unwanted (largely) babies? If you hit worldometers.info you will see at least two abortions happening in the […]
Circumcision of the Heart
We live in a world where there are no boundaries as to where people migrate or immigrate to. One could take almost any country in the Western World and find citizens living and working in any amount of countries. This is true of our own country. There are so many South Africans living and working […]
Trusting God’s Will
We enjoyed a braai with some family and very good friends today. The fellowship was good and Christ was Central. What struck me is that the people present came from Benoni and Randburg, as well as from England and the United States. Those from Randburg and Benoni drove their cars to our house and those […]