Liquorking

“Holiday Tragedy”

“Camper dies in noise row,”

(The New Zealand Herald) and “Camper dies cutting Cable,” (The Northern Advocate) are the headlines today.

A lady was sitting in a parked car in front of the shop which sells the papers and when she saw me reading the headlines she started a conversation and she mentioned alcohol.

“The violence stops now,” is the headline in our local paper, THE NORTHLAND AGE, Thursday, January 15, 2015. There is also a picture with “Protesters against domestic violence outside the Kaitaia District Court yesterday.”

What two great men said about alcohol:

Shakespeare, “Alcohol is a poison men take into the mouth to steal away the brain.” 

Lord Chesterfield, “An artist in human slaughter.”

THE CROSS

“Jesus replied,

Matthew 22:29,30

Intr.:

‘You are in error because you do not know

1.  the Scriptures or

2.  the power of God.

End:

At the resurrection people will …'”

Who know the name of the Flower?

“I myself will help you, declares the LORD.” – Isaiah 41:14

Ahipara is 14 km away from Kaitaia.

Flowers at the Beach

Who know the name of the Flower?

Driftwood at the Beach

At the Beach

At the Beach

At the Beach

THE CROSS

“While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them,

Matthew 17:5,6

Intr.:

and a voice from the cloud said,

1.  ‘This is my Son,

2.  whom I love;

3.  with him I am well pleased.

4.  Listen to him!’

End:

When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified.”

“‘Take your eyes off them for a moment and they are gone,'” said a Senior Sergeant  among other things when it comes to water safety.  “‘Them'” are the young children.

I am reading that in the article called “All hope lost for missing diver.” (The Northland Age, Tuesday, January 13, 2015)

Last Thursday coming back from Kerikeri via the east cost and passing Cable Bay we saw there a big crowd and people looking for the diver and according to the paper they are still looking.

CABLE BAY

Cable Bay is in fact our favorite spot for an outing to the beach. We take our beach chairs and sit there under the shade of a tree. No need to tell you that there are also coffee shops at the east coast.

My habit is not only to read the Bible in the morning, but also the MORNING AND EVENING Daily Readings by C. H. Spurgeon.

Spurgeon has a verse for the morning and a verse for the evening. The evening verse for tomorrow (January 14) is Matthew 14:30 “Beginning to sink, [he] cried out, Lord, save me!” It was Peter who was crying out for help.

It is the story of Peter walking on the water.

When he looked off from the Lord Jesus Christ he was almost a goner.

When we take our eyes off the young children for a moment, they are gone and when we take our eyes of the Lord Jesus Christ we are gone.

We begin to fall when we look off from the Lord Jesus Christ and look at the greatness of opposing difficulties.

CABLE BAY

THE FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS

ROMANS

Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17, THE SONS OF GOD.

Not many more pages and I have read the 438 pages of the book.

In the Volume D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones refers to a Puritan Thomas Horton, who preached forty-six sermons on the eighths chapter of the Epistle to the Romans.

I find eight sermons on Romans 8:16 in the Volume “The Sons of God” by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

I am looking forward to reading the above volume called THE FINAL PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS.