We need physical food and we need spiritual food.

SPIRITUAL FOOD

People who are entering a church building expect to be fed spiritually.

PHYSICAL FOOD

There is a building of a church in Cambridge here in New Zealand where spiritual food was served once, but no more. At the present time you can buy there only food for

The coffee shop in Canbridge

the body. We usually stop there at least for a cup of coffee, when we come through that town. The fact is that I like that place very much. You can sit upstairs with your coffee and you can look down and see your car where it is parked.

SPIRITUAL FOOD AND PHYSICAL FOOD

We are very fortunate here in Kaitaia. Right on the main Street we have a church – HOPE CHRISTIAN CENTRE – where spiritual food and physical food is being

Hope Christian Centre

served. I am hoping to go there tomorrow at least for a good cup of coffee. There is also literature on display and I must remember to take my glasses.

In Deuteronomy 8:3 our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ says, ” … man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.”

“On the Job”

” … , nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any one of you.” – Second Thessalonians 3:8

This week’s Northland Age online poll asks whether Bible studies should be taken out of school.

I am reading that in The Northland Age, Tuesday, May 19, 2015.

I have heard about Religions Instruction in schools, Religious Education in schools and Bible in schools, and I hope that that is meant by “Bible studies” in school.

The new Kerikeri Baptist Church

During my time with the United Maori Mission (UMM) in Kaitaia for a short time, and almost 25 years in Kaikohe, it was my privilege not only to be a Bible in schools teacher in many, many schools around Kaitaia and Kaikohe, but also to train Bible in Schools teachers. For many years we had training days at the old KERIKERI Baptist church.

What is this week’s Northland Age online poll producing? I am very much looking forward to find out!