“‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will make you fishers of men,'” – Matthew 4:19; Mark 1:17

Pukenui Today

I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, and when I arrived today at the bus stop here in Kaitaia – Beachcomber – to go to Pukenui, there was already someone waiting to jump on the bus as well.

Looking at his fishing gear he did not need to tell me that he intended to catch fish from the wharf at Pukenui. When we got talking I told him that I was a fisher of men. But the conversation did not stop there of course.

Pukenui Today

In Pukenui, where there is a rest area, was someone selling coffee. Entering into a conversation with the coffee seller and buying a cup of coffee, I settled down to enjoy my drink in one of the chairs provided.

When I told my new found friend that I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, he showed me the Bible someone had given him and which he is also reading.

Pukenui Today

Here in New Zealand we must never assume that we are the first ones to talk to people about spiritual things. (There are true followers of the Lord, Jehovah’s Witnesses and more!)

Pukenui Today

“Get ready to ShakeOut!

9:15am , 15 October 2015″

“New Zealand ShakeOut is a national earthquake drill taking place at 9:15am, 15 October 2015. It’s a chance for everyone in New Zealand to practice the right action to take in an earthquake –

DROP, COVER & HOLD.”

Last big earthquake in Japan

Picture / Matt Buerki

“Von Rom zu Christus”

Ich bin fast fertig mit dem Lesen von Band 2.

Ein ehemaliger katholischer Priester schreibt, dass ihm klargeworden ist, dass es sich bei der Anbetung der Hostie in der Monstranz, beim Rosenkranzgebet und der roemisch-katholischen Marientheologie um Goetzendienst handelt.

HOSTIE:

[ von lat. Opfer]: roem. – kath. Abendmahlsbrot in form einer runden Oblate.

MONSTRANZ:

Goldverziertes, sonnenfoermiges Gefaess, das eine geweihte Hostie enthaelt.

ROSENKRANZGEBET:

Schnur mit aufgereihten Perlen oder kleinen Kugeln und einem angehaengten Kreuz, die man beim gleichnamigen Gebet verwendet.

MARIENTHEOLOGIE (MARIOLOGIE):

Lehre von Maria.

Quelle: Sach- und Fremdwoerterverzeichnis am Ende des Buches

Heroes and Heroines remind us of courage.

What about hard knocks?

A Roman poet who lived 200 BC said, “That’s courage – take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.” His name was Plautus. (Think about how long ago that was!)

What about defeat?

“The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart,” says R. G. Ingersoll.

What is actually courage?

Henry van Dyke tells us what courage is: “True courage is not incompatible with nervousness, and heroismus does not mean the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.”

Do you need encouragement?

Let us hear what the Lord says to Joshua. He does not only say, “‘Be strong and courageous,'” but he says again, “‘Be strong and very courageous.'”

And let us always remember the quote by Sir J. M. Barrie:

“COURAGE IS THE THING. ALL GOES IF COURAGE GOES.”

The Cross

“WHENEVER THE ARK …”

Number 10:35,36

Intr.:

I.  “Whenever the ark set out,

Moses said,

‘Rise up, O LORD!

— May your enemies be scattered;

— may your foes flee from before you.’

II. Whenever it came to rest,

he said,

‘Return, O LORD,

— to the countless thousands of Israel.'”

End:

Yesterday I picked up a book and found the following challenge and encouragement:

“EVERY TROUBLE HAS A WAY OF SEEMING SMALLER IF WE FACE IT BOLDLY.”

Face the trouble boldly with prayer!

Source: Good in everything  by H. L. Gee

I am from Germany.

The Northland Age, Tuesday, September 29, 2015

90 Mile Beach

“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change,” is a quote by Wayne Dyer

“Change the way …”

That everything looked different the next morning the brother in Christ told us last Sunday in Church. The evening before he had passed from darkness to light, from death to life.

What joy it is to listen to people telling us about the work of God the Holy Spirit in their lives. At the moment I am reading how Catholic Priests came out of darkness into light.

The Holy Spirit creates new life in man. That new life is called the “New Creation”.

Real change comes when the  Lord Jesus Christ enters our life.