The Cross

“I counsel you

Revelation 3:18

Intr.:

to buy from me

1.  gold refined in the fire,

so you can become rich; and

2.  white clothes to wear,

so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and

3.  salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.”

End:

“Bumper year for car sales,” is a very interesting article in one of our local papers, Northern News , January 21, 2015.

Quotes from the article:

“Our love affair with motor vehicles was strong in 2014, …”

“Are cars your whole life?”

“‘We now have the largest number of cars in this country, ever. Our figures indicate that there are now 5.7 passenger vehicles for every 10 people.'”

A question:

Is it true that at certain times around Auckland the cars are almost bumper to bumper?

Summer is the time for the bikes

There are lots of places to go from KAITAIA!

“For generations to come,” it says in the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) pamphlet called “Recreational Fishing Rules,” I picked up yesterday at the store in Pukenui. Whenever I hear the word “generations,” I am wide awake, because I am very much interested in our children and their children after them.

RECREATIONAL FISHING RULES MATTER

“Children”

Fishing rules surely have to do with the next generation. If we don’t keep fisheries sustainable, stick to the rules and fish responsibly, there will be no fish for the generations to come.

But let us move from the worldly, the physical, to the spiritual. We don’t only have a body, but also a soul and a spirit.

GOD’S COMMANDMENTS MATTER

God’s commandments are to be taught to the next generation that the next generation may fear the LORD.

The commandments of the LORD are to be on our hearts. We are to impress them on our children. We are to talk about them when we sit at home and when we walk along the road, when we lie down and when we get up. We are to tie them as symbols on our hands and bind them on our foreheads. We are to write them on the doorframes of our houses and our gates.

The MPI (Ministry for Primary Industries) pamphlet tells us also how to report poaching and suspicious or illegal activity.

I believe that if we would be more diligent in teaching the observance of God’s commandments, there would be less poaching and illegal activity.

“This is Our Place” is where you find photos depicting the Far North’s special places in our local paper. The following is a picture I took and it appeared in The Northland Age on Thursday, January 22, 2015:

At the Beach in AHIPARA

“The Amplified Bible”

“There are lots of books telling you how how to manage when you retire. What most people want is one that tells them how to manage in the meantime.” (Coffee News, Vol 166:3)

There IS a book that tells you how to manage now. That book is the Bible, also called “THE BOOK OF BOOKS” or the “GOOD BOOK”.

The Author of the BIBLE is the Holy Spirit, and once you know the Author of the Bible, the Bible becomes alive for you!

The Bible tells you not only how to manage in the meantime, but also how to manage when you retire. And remember also that some people never reach the retirement age.