In our local paper, The Northland Age, Thursday, November 27, 2014, I read last month that the founder of Duffy Books in Homes, Alan Duff, had some hard-hitting advice for the children in the schools, this time for the students of Pompallier Catholic School.

Pompallier Catholic School in KAITAIA

He told the pupils that if they decided to have no interest in books, that they would be failures in life.

He said also that if they decided that reading was not for them, they were making a conscious decision to be failures.

And here are his own words:

“If you had a chance to read and didn’t use it, bad luck. You’ll end up in a stupid job.”

The Bible is a book. In fact the Bible is THE BOOK OF BOOKS. The author of the Bible is the Holy Spirit.

What hard-hitting advice do we have for people who have decided that they don’t have an interest in the Bible, who have decided that reading the Bible is not for them?

Please let me know!

“Family violence concerns”

How it should be and how it sometimes is:

“OUR HOME IS FULL OF LOVE AND LAUGHTER,” I remember reading on a board, I saw in the window of a shop.

That’s how it should be.

“FAMILY VIOLENCE CONCERNS,” is says in the paper, The Northland Age, Thursday, November 27, 2014.

That’s how it should not be.

How is it at your place?

“Peace on Earth”

“Peace and rest do not belong to the unregenerate. They are the peculiar possession of the Lord’s people, and of them only.” – C. H. Spurgeon

Christmas Card

Another beautiful flower

“For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?

His hand is stretched out and who can turn it back?” – Isaiah 14:27

Going up the steps to the coffee shop in Paihia I really like not long ago, I noticed that ALL the customers were sitting on the balcony eating and drinking, not only enjoying the food, but also the view over the Bay of Islands.

“Physically they are as close to the light as they could be under the circumstances,” I was thinking to myself.

But there is not only the PHYSICAL part of man.

There is also the SPIRITUAL part of man.

Viewing the Bay of islands from the coffee shop

And I am asking myself always when I meet people, “How close are they spiritually to the light, the Lord Jesus Christ?”

People who want to be close to the Lord Jesus Christ must draw near to Him:

1. In breaking of the bread.

2. In the hearing of the word.

3. In searching of the Scriptures.

4. In Prayer and Praise.

In John 8:12 the Lord Jesus Christ says, “I am the light of the world.”

In the coffee shop in Paihia, which I really like is a board hanging on the wall and on the board is written, “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” In a WAR CRY I am reading that that is a quote by G. B. Shaw