AT THE BEACH

“Property Special” and ” Your Home’s New Value,” I remember reading on the New Zealand Herald poster in front of the Central Dairy here in Kaitaia in the Far North of New Zealand not long ago.

I have a “home” here on this earth, but I have also a Home in heaven.

My “home” here on earth is in fact quite nice, but I don’t want to tell you about my earthly “home”. I rather want to tell you a bit about my heavenly home.

The Bible says quite a bit about our heavenly homes, but we would actually like to know more. We ask the question, “Why is the Bible not saying more about heaven?” I believe with many others that the answer is that our Home in heaven is so beautiful that it cannot be described with words.

Heaven is the home of the Lord God, a building, a building of God. Heaven is called a garner, the kingdom of God and of Christ, the Father’s house, a place of rest and paradise.

The fact is that my earthly “home” belongs to my mother in law, but my heavenly Home belongs to me. Also the value of my Home in heaven is always, always the Old value, the value of my Home in heaven never changes.

WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY – SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

From a leaflet I was given today on Commerce Street in KAITAIA:

“The number of lives lost each year through suicide exceeds the number of deaths due to homicide and war combined.”

The General Election in New Zealand

Hoardings in Kaitaia when you come from the South

Hoardings in Kaitaia when you enter the town from the South

Hoardings

THE CROSS

“The LORD…”

Psalm 27:1

A.  “The LORD

1.  is my light and

2.  my salvation –

whom shall I fear?

B.  The LORD

3.  is the stronghold of my life –

of whom shall I be afraid?”

Romans chapter one

“There is a sense in which we can say quite truthfully that the Epistle to the Romans has, possible, played a more important and more crucial part in  the history of the church than any other single book in the whole of the Bible.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“So we can say with confidence,

‘The Lord is my helper;

I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?'”