A young Christian man, zealous for God, recently found himself to be increasingly thirsty, fatigued and losing a lot of weight. This was a concern for his Christian parents, so his father thought it expedient that he visit the young man at his home. When he did so he found him near collapse and losing consciousness. Later in hospital …
Yearly Archives: 2011
Zombies in the Pulpits – Zombies in the Pews
Two years prior to becoming a Christian I spent as much time as I could reading about human nature. I found it to be a fascinating experience and I absorbed as many books as I could get my hands on about the subject, both from the library and from second-hand book shops. Old cloth-bound and hard cover books held a greater appeal for me than the …
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The Church has a Few Lackeys
For some time I’ve been getting some mental pictures on the church and recently I saw a few people gathering together for Sunday worship services, Bible studies and mid-week home group meetings. And sadly, within these pictures there was a great lack of true joy, peace and liberty within the people. The leader talks about these and is doing his best to project such …
The Same Old Same Old
A few weeks ago I stumbled across a message on Facebook, “Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting and tedious of all work.” Corrie ten Boom. I got to thinking about all the different ways I’ve heard the first part of that message expressed by Christian people …
The Earth is Not going Anywhere
On Sunday June 5, an estimated 10,000 people here in Melbourne rallied as part of a national climate change campaign urging the federal government to set a carbon price. And one of the newspapers carrying the story showed a picture of a young boy about twelve years old holding a green placard. Written on the placard were the words, “The Earth Is …
The “I believe/we believe” Man
Whilst out walking the other day I was doing some intercessory prayer for the church and not long into it, I received a mental picture of people gathered together in their respective groups or denominations all over the nation. I saw faces both young and old all sitting passively, giving their best attention to the man or woman …
Praying for The Dead is A Lie
A day or so after the assassination of terrorist bin Laden, a Roman Catholic priest here in Melbourne made headlines by challenging his people to forgive him and pray for him. According to the newspaper the priest said bin Laden was a man who needs all the prayers he can get as he goes before God. “It’s hard …
Nothing More than a Religious Figurehead
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting mental pictures of people in church attendance on a Sunday morning. During praise and worship there’s more than the odd one giving the impression they’d rather be somewhere else. A few others are going through the motions – lips moving, but it’s doubtful that the same is applying …
What an Astounding Reality!
For the purpose of participating in a Real Time Evangelism – Scripture Blog Tag Event I was recently invited by my fellow blogger and sister in Christ, Lynn Baber at www.lynnbaber.com to share my three favorite Scripture verses. And just as Lynn expresses in her post, “the biggest problem was narrowing my Scriptures down to only three …
Religious Nut-cases & Idiots
As they do every Easter, the TV channels once again this year gave news snippets from around the world of people celebrating this event. And as always, the news footage was limited to celebrations taking place in the English (Anglican/Episcopalian), Romanist and Orthodox cathedrals, with news readers using such language as, “Christians around the world” …