“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”
Coffee News Vol 96:5
Monthly Archives: March 2009
STORY TELLING WORKSHOP
Two-thirds of the world depend on hearing and speaking rather than reading and writing for communication
(That I find hard to believe! – Werner)
— Selecting Bible stories that speak to the key issues
— Telling Bible stories in simple, reproducible ways
4th-8th & 11th-15th May 2009
WEC National Office – 35 College Drive, Gordonton (10mins north of Hamilton)
PARTICIPANTS NEED TO HAVE READ THEIR WHOLE BIBLE
I found this ad in the WEC Publication called “Into all the World”.
I am a member of WEC.
Here it says that participants need to have read their whole BIBLE!
Have you read your whole Bible? I think it means: Have you read through the BIBLE at least once?
POWER OUTAGE
“POWER CUT SUNDAY!
YES! WE WILL BE OPEN
YES! WE WILL HAVE POWER!”
I saw the notice at the entrance of the local Warehouse , where everyone gets a bargain.
I like the commitment of business people.
I think we as followers of the Lord can learn from their commitment. I hope you agree!
“KNEEMAIL” (Prayer, in Contemporary Terms)
The leaflet I picked up is concerned about people, who are struggling with relationships. We are invited to pay MONEY for a life changing conference. In this life changing seminar we will receive the keys to transforming our relationships and unlocking our potentials. – That sounds fantastic, does it not?
Not long ago I attended a meeting, and it was pointed out to us, that 80% of our troubles are relationship problems.
And this is actually the reason for writing this. I am really excited about what happened about one hundred years ago in New Zealand in meetings of the Salvation Army. I read the following in the newsletter called “Power Connection”: “In 1883, Christchurch City Corps reported having 1000 people at their early morning kneedrill, with 600 responding to a call for holiness.” – “In 1886, Dunedin reported that 120 people spent a half night of prayer at Dunedin Barracks.” – ” In 1901, Wellington reported having 1800 people attending Sunday worship, with 86 beginning the day with kneedrill.”
I am excited to read about those meetings at the end of the 19th century! Are you?
And this is one of the saddest sentences I have read for a long time. I am quoting again from Power Connection Number 4, 2008: “Sadly, over time, kneedrills have become one of the smallest attended meetings, in some places vanishing altogether.” — One thing I remember very clearly from a holiday at a Christian Centre in the German alps (Oberstdorf) and that is a poem with the title: The Prayer Meeting is saying Good Bye. Bit difficult to translate.
Do you think there is a connection between our relationship with the Lord and our relationship with our neighbour?
I am really wondering now if they had LIFE CHANGING CONFERENCES and MARRIAGE SEMINARS about 125 years ago.
I think they rather had a Living relationship with the Living God in PRAYER!
Today is the last Sunday in March 2009 and we had a power cut, a power outage, a temporary interruption to our power supply from 8.00AM – 5.00PM. Maintenance work had to be done on the electricity network.
THE POWER OF GOD is never interrupted and does not need any maintenance work. The power of God is always available to those who want to be connected. I also want to encourage you with these words:
“KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING WITH GOD…..
NEVER SIGN OFF”
GOLDEN NUGGET
Isaiah 45:22
“TURN TO ME AND BE SAVED, ALL YOU ENDS OF THE EARTH; FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER.”
“WHERE CAN WE GO?”
“What can we do? Where can we go? I don’t know WHO to turn to!”
That are very real questions and cries from desperate people TODAY! They need to be answered quickly. And thank God, there is an answer for all of us!
The first two questions I read some time ago on a paper, which was pinned to a wall for everybody to read. The third question was written on a leaflet for people with gambling problems.
“What can we do? Where can we go?” are cries from young people of today, a judge at a Brisbane Juvenile Court writes in an open letter to teenagers. His answer is: “GO HOME! Mow the lawn, wash the dishes, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons. And, after you have finished, read a book!”
(READ THE BIBLE, the Word of the Living God!-Werner)
But how do we answer the cries: ” I don’t know WHO to turn to? What can I do? Where can we go?”
The answer is: COME HOME! Come home to your loving Heavenly Father. Turn to your Heavenly Father. He is waiting for YOU!
One book in my library I cherish very much. It is written by the German pastor Wilhelm Busch, who worked with young people in Essen. I used to go to his church services and meetings for the young people when I was young in the faith and before I ever went to Thailand as a missionary. It is called “COME HOME” and he is talking about the Parable of the Lost Son in Luke 15:11-31.
I don’t know if you are aware, that the Lord used Isaiah 45:22 to bring Charles Haddon Spurgeon to himself. Isaiah 45:22: “TURN to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached in the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. The Tabernacle seated 6 000 people.
In John 6:67 the Lord Jesus Christ is asking the twelve,” You do not want to leave too, do you?” ( We would probably be afraid, to ask a question like that, especially if we would be the pastor of a church.) Please read what Simon Peter answered in John 6:68,69!!
The answer is so important to me , that I am going to write it down here: “LORD, TO WHOM SHALL WE GO? YOU HAVE THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE. WE BELIEVE AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE HOLY ONE OF GOD.”
“RAINBOWS OF HOPE”
Dr. Phillis Kilbourn is the founder and director of “Rainbows of Hope”. She is caring for children in crisis.
When she was in NZ a number of years ago she had a seminar at the Baptist church in Whangarei.
I remember her saying that the children want to know one thing: Where is HOPE for us?
Easter!
EASTER
The 20th Century Bible Dictionary says:
“The annual Christian festival celebrating the RESURRECTION of Christ. The word comes from Eastre, a Teutonic goddess of light and spring; the name of the festival in her honor was transferred by eighth-century Ango-Saxons to the Christian festival.”