“I BELIEVE PEOPLE ARE AS THEY THINK. THE CHOICES WE  MAKE IN THE NEXT DECADE WILL MOLD IRREVOCABLY THE DIRECTION OF OUR CULTURE … AND THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN.” – Francis A. Schaeffer

Daisies

“‘SALVATION IS FOUND IN NO ONE ELSE, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN TO MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED.'” – Acts 4:12

FATHER’S DAY  

SUNDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2017

FATHER’S DAY

SEEN TODAY ON A GARMENT:

“FATHER

A MAN WHO HAS FAMILY PHOTOS IN HIS WALLET WHERE HIS MONEY USED TO BE.”

FAR NORTH DAFFODIL DAY

25TH AUGUST 2017

DAFFODIL DAY

WE ARE ASKED TO HELP SUPPORT THE 1 IN 3 NEW ZEALANDERS AFFECTED BY CANCER THIS DAFFODIL DAY.

I am coming again across the tyranny of circumstances in my reading. How am I reacting to circumstances? Is my reaction negative or is my reaction positive?

We cannot stop the mind and the heart from thinking about the circumstances which tyrannize us. Are you having sleepless nights? (Philippians 4:6,7)

We cannot STOP the HEART and the MIND from thinking!

To ourselves we are talking. I don’t need to tell you that. You know that from your own experience. We are doing that all the time. Mental chatter is going on continuously. Not only the mind, but also he heart is outside our control.

The negative reaction to tyrannizing circumstances is to think, “This is too much for me to handle.” The positive reaction, the biblical reaction is to say, “I don’t understand what is happening to me, but only good for me will come out of this experience.

Romans 8:28:

“AND WE KNOW THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, …”

The Cross

“But he [Thomas]

John 20:25

Intr.:

said to them, ‘Unless I

• see the nail marks in his hands and
• put my finger where the nails were, and
• put my hand into his side,

End:

I will not believe it.'”

“‘Unless I see the nail marks in his hands …'”