Category: Pastor’s Pen
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Aligning Your Inner Compass
“There are worse things than our final departure to the grave. One is the slow strangling death that surely comes to those who try to live by bread alone. For when we live by bread alone, we die by bread alone … Not that we immediately notice it, however. Modern culture is engineered to cover…
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Redeeming the Time
We use many expressions of time. We ‘pass’ the time, ‘spend’ time, ‘have not got enough’ time, and perhaps the worst phrase, ‘waste’ or ‘kill’ time. The young person never really looks at the amount of time he has been allotted. True we don’t know how long we will live, but we can be certain…
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Living With God
Lord, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill?2 Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly. 3 He does not slander, or do harm to others, or insult his neighbour. 4 He despises a reprobate, but honours the Lord’s loyal followers. He makes…
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A New Covenant
Sometimes we forget that Jesus not only spoke about a new covenant, but made one with us, that is open to all people. In Matthew 26:28 Jesus says, “…for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
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The Exercise of Faith
We are celebrating Christianity’s greatest event—Jesus Christs’ death and resurrection. However, it amazes me how so many Christians fail to live in the good of the completed work of Christ. Perhaps we fail to understand or believe in what Jesus actually accomplished?
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Peace
It seems that these days there is little peace in the world. The news is full of the ongoing strife that exists between one country and another and one ethnic group against the other. There is also the tragedy of recent earthquakes and Tsunamis that have caused profound suffering and need. Looking at life more…
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3 Types
Holidays are good. We all enjoy the thought of no responsibility or commitments for a period of time. It is great to wake up in the morning and not have to do anything! However, too much time off can cause us to develop idle habits and the danger is that inevitably you have to “get…
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Quality Time
Kronos (great sounding word!) is a Greek word referring to the sequential passing of time. We understand time as being linear. We are born at one point and die at another. The two points between these dates are linear. However, the greeks had another word for time, ‘Kairos’. Kairos refers to time, but in a…
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Happiness
One of the greatest pursuits of mankind is undoubtedly the desire for happiness. We just need to look at the advertising industry and we will find that the purchase of a particular product will give us happiness. We may well claim that we are not duped by such shallow advertising, but the question remains, “why…
Simon Smailus 