PASTOR'S CORNER

Matt 19:16-26 What keeps people so distracted or tied down that they never embrace the cross of forgiveness? • Is it pride? • Is it lack of understanding? • Is it ignorance? • Is it selfishness? • Is it unconcerned to future things? • Is it hatred towards the things of God? You could say yes to all those things mentioned above! But there is something that God has spoken against since the foundation of this world! Its covetousness which takes part in those things mentioned above! What does that look like? I came across a story that might help answer that question! "There was a man who had a problem with stinging ants....so he laid a small circle of poison around a hill of their home. Thinking the tiny granules of poison were food, the ants began to pick them up and carry them throughout the colony. He returned later to see how well the poison was working. Hundreds of the stinging ants were carrying the poison down into their hill. Then he noticed a hole in the circle o...

These is for my lovely 3 girls [Rachel...Victoria...Hannah].....SDG

Col 4:7-18 There‘s a story I came across that hear more than I care to [even more so today]......and I find it hurtful and unkind as a Christian. It’s a story about a guy named Tim, who was really critical about the church and the people who attend it.“Tim was complaining to someone about the Christian church, when suddenly an image flashed in his mind of a bride and a groom on their wedding day. In that mental image He said “I walked up to the groom and said to him, Your bride sure is ugly." Now no one would ever do that because no matter how unattractive I may personally find a bride, to the groom that bride is wonderful, she’s radiant and beautiful. Then Lord spoke to my heart and said, "Tim, every time you criticize my church you’re telling me, that my bride is ugly." We must never do that! The church is amazing institution that God has designed and orchestrated for the past 2000 years! I love the church and I will defend her until my last dying breath! Why? Sh...

Col 4:2-6 The bible has a lot to say about the speech of the redeemed and unredeemed mouth! The unredeemed mouth is characterized by....... • Evil “.....But the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil.” [Prov 15:28] • Sexual immorality [Prov 5:3] • Deceit “Their tongue is an arrow shot out; It speaks deceit....” [Jer 9:8] • Curses “His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression...” [Ps 10:7] • Lies “Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD,...” [Prov 12:22] • Destruction [Prov 11:11] • Vanity [2 Peter 2:18] • Flattery “......a flattering mouth works ruin.” [Prov 26:28] • Foolishness “.....the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.” [Prov 15:2] • Carelessness “I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,” [Matt 12:36] • False doctrine “.........devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,” [ 2Tim 4:1] • Evil plots “The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him” [Ps 37:12...

This is the Gospel truth! SDG

Col 4:2-4 Does prayer play an important part in your life? Before you answer that question listen to what some of the late great preachers had to say about the importance of prayer. Charles Spurgeon said! “We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be evident in our lives. If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it. Did not our Saviour say that “men ought always to pray, and not to faint;” and did he not imply, by that form of expression, that, if they did not pray, they would be sure to faint? Prayer has become as essential to me as the heaving of my lungs, and the beating of my pulse.” The late great reformer  John Owen said this “The faithful soul, pouring out without ceasing those prayers which are supplied to us by God’s Spirit in gracious provision for our infirmities, enjoys communion with God Himself as he shares in the understandings of the things of the gospel. By practice in prayer, h...

Col 3:22-25; 4:1 As we continue looking at the family we see that slaves despite the negetive connotation stuck to the word slave, were apart of the family! But before we look at this passage to the family, we need to understand somethings about slavery! First thing we need to understand  is that its something that has been around for centuries! It goes as far back when Joseph was sold by his brothers to the slave market. During the Greco-Roman era slavery was part of the social structure; it was so common it was never questioned by anyone. Slavery was a part of all ages, gender even ethnical background. One fifth of the empire’s population were slaves, totalling as many as twelve million slaves at the outset of the first century AD. Aristotle said “slaves as things, or living tools.” The bible in no way condone this way of negative behaviour!Sin and man have distorted this way of living! Throughout the Old Testament we see that slaves were taken care of by their master. A slav...