Category: Inspirational

Forty: The Road to Faith It is quite interesting how often and where we find the number 40 in scripture. Whenever and wherever we come accross it we seem to find ourselves in a place of challenge and testing, a place where we are often cornered with seemingly no way out. It is at this…

Four Layers of the Word Life began in a garden. We call this paradise, which comes from the Persian “pardes” which means garden. This word made its way into the Aramaic and Hebrew, written PRDS (remember that the ancient Hebrew had no vowels). Later on the Rabbis created a teaching from the word PRDS on…

Overcoming OffencePt 2: Letting Go Matthew 6:12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.Forgive: to release, to let go, to let alone Matthew 18:21-35What we do to others, we will have done to us. This is because what we do to others we are really doing to ourselves and to…

Overcoming OffencePart 1: What is Offence? To overcome offence, one first has to determine what offence is. This is important because offence is the number one killer of Christian life in the Church today. Offence is like a cancer, it can attack you at any time. If it is caught early enough it can be…

Repentance This is an interesting and often misunderstood topic. If one was to ask a variety of people “What does it mean to repent?” your answers would vary from “being sorry” to “turning away from sin”. Though these examples can be part of the repentance process, they in themselves are not repentance. Let’s go into…

Look Down 2Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;2Co 5:15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.2Co 5:16 Therefore from now on…

It was late Saturday night on June 20th and the phone rang. It was my sister. It was a phone call that I knew would eventually come. My sister informed me that my father was at his end and probably would not make it through the night. Through this journey of preparation for my father’s…

Five Levels of Fellowship Fellowship: G2842 koinōniaThayer Definition:1) fellowship, association, community, communion, joint participation, intercourse1a) the share which one has in anything, participation1b) intercourse, fellowship, intimacy1b1) the right hand as a sign and pledge of fellowship (in fulfilling the apostolic office)1c) a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution, as exhibiting an embodiment and proof…

It’s in Christ Perspective; everything in life is about perspective. Perspective is the starting point on which we view and measure the world around us. The only problem with perspective is that it can taint or distort the truth because if we have the wrong starting point, how do we know we are on the…