Renewed to Honor

A few Christmases ago, I came across this new carol. Lisa Clow is the author along with Bob Kauflin from Sovereign Grace Music. I love the lyrics as they contrast the classic hymn "O Come All Ye Faithful". Not every Sunday over the last few years had been good. There had been really hard Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays to Sundays and some time for a period of time. Last weeks we went through some major changes and  feeling of doubt filled me. The Joy of Christmas is not that we have been faithful but God has been faithful despite our unfaithfulness.   This carol tells us to Come. Come to Jesus, knowing we are not alone. He knows us, our state and our need and He is sufficient and enough for us. That is a promise we can hold on to. That I can hold on to in this and every season. There is a story behind this carol and I have the extract below. I was struggling. It had been a long year and a half. Finances were stressful, I miscarried twins, and on top of it I was battling a deep rel

Prof. Richard Buggs an evolutionary biologist and molecular ecologist talks about how Darwinian tree of life may be wrong and insists that we need to look deeper into the fact that we cannot explain everything with evolutionary biology and may be it is time that we take another look at the Biblical view of a designer. You can watch this brilliant talk on YouTube Read more: https://richardbuggs.com/ Richard has published on a variety of evolutionary processes including: natural selection, speciation, hybridisation and whole genome duplication. The birch species Betula buggsii is named after him. Richard is a Christian, and sometimes blogs on issues where biology and Christianity intersect.

  Jesus talks about the bad manager and from this Jesus has a very important lesson to teach us. Luke 16:1-15  He also said to the disciples,  “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.   And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’   And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.   I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’   So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’   He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’   Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.  

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Look, see the King on a donkey come slowly While rulers come matching with chariots proudly. The lowliest of beasts, carrying it's maker The palm - it's leaves cut, waved as banner Rocks and stones, stirred at this jubilant dawn Children and babies join in this choral song Come,O King , to your royal throne Nature and creatures together groan Hosanna, Hosanna They said, they sang, the loudest Hosanna in the highest To the glorious King who comes - Hosanna Behold the man, humble to the ground Knowing well the future bound Brambles twisted will be his crown His glory, his majesty to be striped down Today, the mortals greet his entry Four and three days later they place a sentry Yet his glory is not tarnished For he came to gather the banished Grace, he stays while we turn away Mercy, he comes when we walk away This is your King, come see his hand His love, his care, his rule , let's not aband

Today we are going to continue with the chapter 2 in the first letter of Peter. But this section is about Jesus and not Peter. In John 21:17 Jesus asks Peter the third time "“Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep."   This is the very same Jesus who knows you, the same Jesus who saved you. Come, let us meditate on who He is. This portion is really important in our understanding of the Lord. Those who love to dig deeper, I would recommend Romans chapter 9 also. Let us read the portion and go one verse by verse. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture

 Dear church, This week we will continue our studies through the first book of Peter. Since it has been a while, let us remember how Peter came to Christ. You will find them in Matthew 4:18-22, Luke 5:1-11 where Peter and Andrew are seen. They tried to catch fish all night long and Jesus tells them to go a little further and fish. Over there they get the catch of a lifetime. They could have been from then living a happy life having settled their families. They could have got all that they wanted. In our terms started a great and successful fishing business. Got more boats and made a name for themselves. That moment Peter understands the truth. Jesus was not ordinary. Peter having recognised Jesus as holy and himself as a sinner says to Jesus "Go away from me, for I am a sinful man".  Brothers the first thing that we see when our eyes are open to seeing God as holy is seeing our sins as unholy.  But - thank God for such mercy, but Jesus tells him "Do not be afraid - (f

This is the last the study on the first chapter of Peter, if God does not bring into His light more things that we can share in the coming Sunday. And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abidin

 Therefore: Be Holy  Therefore: Be Joyful Therefore: Be full of hope verse 1: since God has chosen you, verse 3: since God has caused you to be born again to a living hope, verse 4: since God is keeping an inheritance for you imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, verse 5: since God is protecting you through faith so that you won't lose that inheritance, verses 6–7: since God is refining your faith by fire so that it will receive praise and glory and honor, verse 8: since you are swimming with the strokes of love and faith and joy in Christ, verses 10–13: since prophets and angels are on tiptoe to see all that God's grace is going to do in your life

JESUS IN THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE In Genesis He is the Seed of the Woman.  In Exodus He is the Passover Lamb.  In Leviticus He is our High Priest.  In Numbers He is the Pillar Of Cloud by day and the Pillar of Fire by night.  In Deuteronomy He is the Prophet like unto Moses.  In Joshua He is the Captain of our Salvation.  In Judges He is our Judge and Lawgiver.  In Ruth He is our Kinsman Redeemer.  In I and II Samuel He is our Trusted Prophet.  In Kings and Chronicles He is our Reigning King.  In Ezra He is our Faithful Scribe.  In Nehemiah He is the Rebuilder of the Broken down walls of our human life.  In Esther He is our Mordecai.  In Job He is our Day-Spring from on high and our Ever-Living Redeemer.  In Psalms He is the Lord our Shepherd In Proverbs and Ecclesiastes He is our Wisdom.  In the Song of Solomon He is the Lover and the Bridegroom.  In Isaiah He is the Prince of Peace.  In Jeremiah He is the Righteous Branch. In Lamentations He is the Weeping Prophet.  In Ezekiel He is th

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