On the East Coast in Northland / NZ in Winter (July) 2016.

Cable Bay in Northland

This is a good place to have lunch in MANGONUI

CABLE BAY dairy

Taipa Beach

TAIPA Beach

Beach Flowers

Beach Flower

“Do you have my card?” it says today in our local paper on the page where you find the local classifieds.

Two business cards are displayed and underneath the cards is the question:

“WOULD YOU LIKE TO FEATURE YOUR BUSINESS CARD?”

My Cards

I am informed that my details will be seen by more than 12,000 readers per issue. What an opportunity!

I know that I should always have my cards on me and ask people, “Do you have my card?” What an encouragement to do so.

In our paper today, The Northland Age, Tuesday, July 26, 2016, I am encouraged to kickstart my day with breakfast.

I am also told that eating breakfast gives children energy, which they need to play and to learn better. With other words eating breakfast gives them a real head – start.

Part of my breakfast

But I have known for a long time that we not only live on bread alone; and that’s why I have learned long ago not only to kickstart my day with a healthy breakfast, but also with reading the BIBLE.

I started at the beginning of this year with Genesis, the first book of the Bible, and at the present time I am reading what the Prophet Jeremiah says.

“Just do it”

“Don’t ask yourself whether you feel like exercising. Just do it and let your feelings come along for the ride.” – Karen Nimmo

Don’t ask yourself whether you feel like reading your Bible. Just do it and let your feelings come along for the reading.

“Just do it”

A beautiful flower

“Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what kind of wisdom do they have?” – Jeremiah 8:9

God is not only love, but he is also holy. We hear a lot about the love of God, but not enough about his holiness.

John Guest in his book Risking Faith says this about God’s holiness.

First of all it means that God is morally perfect.

Secondly it means that God is perfectly just.

Thirdly it means that sin cannot coexst with God.

by reading books:

Get hold of this one if you can. I bought it second-hand.

“One of the reasons membership and attendance in the mainline churches are shrinking is the poverty of the pulpit.” – John  Guest