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ARE YOU LEAVING A LEGACY TO YOUR CHILDREN?

(June 17, 2025) Angeline Selvakumari shares another timely challenge…

It’s hard to believe that we have already completed nearly six months of 2025. It feels as though the year has just begun, yet we are already entering its second half.

1. Divine Favour
This brings to mind the verse from Habakkuk 3:2NKJV, ‘O Lord, revive your work in the midst of the years.’ Complete Jewish Bible reads: ‘Bring your work to life in our own age, make it known in our own time.’

Revive is chayah… to restore, revitalise, ‘breathe life into’ and work is po`al meaning act, deed, do, getting. My prayer is that the Lord will revive you, your family, ministry, business, profession, or studies with His divine favour and mercy in this second half of the year.

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THE JOY OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION

(March 20, 2024) Ayodele Afuye shares a great Easter truth…

As we observe the remembrance of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ at Easter, this should also be a season of reflection about the precedence, the aftermath, and the overall reason for Christ’s coming to die for you and me.

Redemption From Darkness
Is it just enough to celebrate Easter, as we call this ‘season’ or ‘Resurrection’ as some want to refer to it? No! Celebrating and making merry about the resurrection of Jesus from the dead after three days is great… but our redemption from the kingdom of darkness into the marvellous light of the Father is also worth celebrating.

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‘EERING PETER’ – FIGURE OF HOPE

(April 18, 2023) Brian Bell challenges us to search our hearts deeply… 

In the 19th century hymn usually known as Yesterday, Today, Forever the writer A.B. Simpson introduces the third verse with the words ‘He who pardoned eering Peter never need you fear.’

Whenever we think about Peter, that rather impulsive figure who was numbered among the twelve chosen by Jesus to be His first close followers, we are often drawn to his ‘eerings’… those times when he is considered to have erred in his words or actions.

It is Peter’s ‘eerings’ which make him a figure of hope for all of us who, like Peter, sometimes stumble over our words or actions as we seek to follow the Lord.

Let’s look at some of Peter’s eerings together… and as we (I include myself!) do so, allow the Holy Spirit to challenge us deeply if we too need hope.

Peter’s Determination
I see this reflected in Peter’s well-intentioned words to Jesus: ‘Even if everyone else deserts you I never will’ (Luke 24:12NLT). When Jesus told Peter he would deny him that very night, Peter tried to strengthen his determination by saying, ‘No – even if I have to die with you I will never deny you’ (v35).

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FIVE BURDENS YOU DON’T NEED TO CARRY

(May 15, 2022) Richard Winter reminds us that…

It’s often been said that it’s been a hard life and there have been many tough times. Well, l guess most of us can resonate with that… after all, who hasn’t lost a little sleep through worrying?

We’ve all carried burdens real and unreal… and, if we are honest, we have worried most about some things that never materialised. So here is the word of God that applies to our worries –

Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you… and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light’ (Matthew 11:28–30).

A yoke is something Jesus would have made in a carpenter’s shop. It’s a wooden frame joining two animals (usually oxen) at the neck, enabling them to pull a plough or wagon together. The function of the yoke is to make the burden easier to carry.

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THE CHOICE IS OURS

(June 9, 2021) Bonnie Spencer shares a most important challenge…

We make countless choices every day. We decide…

What to wear, what to eat, who to hang out with. What time to get up, unless we have a job that dictates that. Even then, we had the choice of taking that job, looking for a different one, or not working at all but instead backpacking around the country.

And so on… but the choice most often is ours.

Created to make choices
Although some countries severely limit freedoms, that is not how God created us to live. He is all about freedom and giving us the opportunity to make our own choices. Unlike the animals he created with instincts, he gave us the ability to think and decide for ourselves how to live our lives… even when it means making the wrong choices. That is clear from the beginning of history.

When God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden, he instructed them, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die’(Genesis 2:16-17).

From the start God has laid out what is right and what is wrong, telling the consequences of making the wrong decisions. Adam and Eve made a bad choice in disobeying God, and humankind has experienced the consequence of death ever since. Death was never God’s plan for us, but he allows us to choose.

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