Be renewed in the spirit of your minds. Ephesians 4:23 Leaving behind old ways of thinking and reacting takes conscious effort. According to a Social Psychology study, it can take between 18 and 25 days for a person to form a new habit, and an average of 66 days for a new behaviour to become automatic. Transformation… Continue reading Leave the Old Behind
Month: October 2022
A Call to Worship
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Psalm 100:1,2 These wonderful verses call us to worship and there is no better way to start the week. The whole psalm has such a joyous energy which serves to focus our thoughts on… Continue reading A Call to Worship
Walk Fearlessly
The Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught. Proverbs 3:26 Have you ever watched someone walk into a room and chat easily with everyone there, or watch as they step onto a platform and talk without any hint of nervousness? The person who isn’t afraid to speak up in… Continue reading Walk Fearlessly
The Weight of Grace
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Colossians 3:17 In Colossians 3, verses 12 through 17, Paul gives good counsel on how to live Christian lives that honour God. When we think of our own… Continue reading The Weight of Grace
Praise & Thanksgiving
Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name. 1 Chronicles 29:13 The fact that you are reading this means that you have a few minutes to spare. Get the very most out of this time by opening your heart in thankfulness to God. Don’t come in order to get something, come… Continue reading Praise & Thanksgiving
Attention Seeking
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. Hebrews 2:1 Billboards, TV ads, front page headlines, posters and flyers are all used to try to get your attention. Newspapers and magazines use titles and images to shock and intrigue you into buying them. Companies entice… Continue reading Attention Seeking
The Harvest Provider
I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. Deuteronomy 11:14 We have so much to be thankful for, not least of all God’s bounty of produce from the earth itself. Plants and… Continue reading The Harvest Provider
Live Free
You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8:32 This is a promise of Jesus to everyone who follows him, remains in him and stays within his teaching. His word does not merely illuminate truth, it is truth, and that truth brings a freedom that most of us have not… Continue reading Live Free
Enclosed in Safety
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. John 10:9 This passage in John 10, verses 1 to 19 opens up the imagery of Jesus as Shepherd. To understand it better, we need to appreciate the relationship between shepherd and sheep… Continue reading Enclosed in Safety
There Is No Other
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods. 1 Chronicles 16:25 No other being, alive or dead, compares to our God, and no other god comes anywhere close to being in the vicinity of comparable. A tree is cut down and fashioned… Continue reading There Is No Other