I think it is true that packaging is important and that the package must be able to keep the treasure safe inside. However, the role of packaging is to keep something safe and the packaging doesn’t compare in value with what the treasure contains. I have a mobile phone here which I value and so […]

Our eternal destination has nothing to do with the size of the funeral! The destinations have nothing to do with how many people turn up for the service or even what is said at the funeral. The destinations do not hinge or wealth or status, on the amount of family and friends that you have. […]

When it comes to what Paul is saying here about not losing heart, I imagine that it is more about seeing ourselves as a balloon with a slow leak in it. We feel deflated. We lack spirit and purpose. I think we all like those helium balloons that are lighter than air and go up […]

A.W.Tozer said, ‘What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.’ Who is Jesus to you? Is he a stumbling block to you? Will you reject him and be crushed by him in judgement or is he your saviour? Or perhaps you think he is absent, leaving […]

Those words, “Being changed.” occurs only twice in the New Testament. The word comes to us from the Greek word, “menamorphoumetha.” from which we get the word, “Metamorphosis.” That word brings to mind the connotations of tadpoles turning into frogs, of pupas turning into butterflies. In the Old Covenant only Moses came into the presence […]

What this man’s actions shows us is that without God man is never content. Without God man is very much alone. If every person has a God shaped vacuum in their lives then the rich fool is attempting to fill it with things and sadly he will leave those things behind. This rich fool planned […]

We read this… 17 Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God. The word “peddle” is not a complimentary kind of word but using an Americanism is can mean “Huckster” or for us “trickster” […]

It was the famous missionary C.T. Studd who said, ‘One life to life it soon will pass, only what’s done for Christ will last.’ Jesus Christ came to seek and to save the lost. He has gone away for a while and has left us here for however long he gives us to continue his […]