“WRITE INJURIES IN DUST, BENEFITS IN MARBLE.” – Ben Franklin
Author Archives: Werner Dekarski
Seen in Kaitaia
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KAITAIA: Seen on Commerce Street.
KAITAIA: Seen Today.
WHAKATAUKI
“Ko toku reo toku ohooho, ko toku re toku mapihi maurea.”
“My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul.”
– Whakatauki
Found in Our Local Paper
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The Northland Age, Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Golden Nugget
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Who knows the name of the flower?
“This will happen if you diligently obey the LORD your God.” – Zechariah 6:15
“A Systematic Thinker, …”
Today I am reading this about J. O. Sanders:
“A SYSTEMATIC THINKER, SANDERS HAD A WAY OF BREAKING DOWN COMPLEX IDEAS INTO UNDERSTANDABLE SEGMENTS.”
I really like that. And that’s why you find it here!
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“SATAN DREADS NOTHING BUT PRAYER. HIS ONE CONCERN IS TO KEEP THE SAINTS FROM PRAYING. HE FEARS NOTHING FROM PRAYERLESS STUDIES, PRAYERLESS WORK, PRAYERLESS RELIGION. HE LAUGHS AT OUR TOIL, MOCKS OUR WISDOM, BUT TREMBLES WHEN WE PRAY.” – Samuel Chadwick
JEWELS
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That “MANGONUI is one of the jewels of the Far North,” I am reading in a column in our local newspaper. The town is famous for many things, it says, also for its “stunning picture-postcards views.”
IT IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MANGONUI.
Not long before reading this in the paper, I visited Mangonui. I remember a very heavy downpour, that I did not take any pictures in spite of having two cameras on me, and that it was a day without sunshine. (You know what I mean.) It was a day to sit in the restaurants reading the paper and drinking coffee.
Days without sunshine remind me always of lives, people, without the “Sun of Righteousness,” the Lord Jesus Christ. (Malachi 4:2) In Psalm 84:11 it says, “For the LORD God is our sun and our shield.” Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ, the “Sun of Righteousness?”
Just as Mangonui becomes a jewel (“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1) in the sunshine, so people who know the Lord Jesus Christ, the “Sun of Righteousness,” become jewels, as it says in Zechariah 9:16, “They will sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown.” The Apostle Paul says in Philippians 4:1 about the Philippians, “…, for you are my joy and the crown I receive for my work.”