TWO COPIES OF A BOOK

In almost every communication from the Bible school BRAKE / Germany you find Second Timothy 2:2 (easy to remember),

 “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men.”

Bible school BRAKE / Germany

Bible school BRAKE / Germany

 Picture / Bibelschule Brake

I am a graduate of Bible school BRAKE / Germany.

I have two copies of the book called GOTT IST TREU by Stephan Holthaus about the history of the Bible school to give away. (In German!)

I will send a copy to the first two people to ask for it.

The Story of the Bible school BRAKE

The Story of the Bible school BRAKE

WHY DO WE NEED TO LOOK AFTER THE PLANET?

“Why do we need to look after the Planet?” I asked today at the Far North Environment Centre here in Kaitaia.

The answer was readily given and also kindly written down for me. I requested to write the answer down, because I did not want to forget it.

Far North Environment Centre

Far North Environment Centre

And here is the reason for asking the question at the Centre:

In THE SALVATION ARMY magazine called WarCry (Issue 6593), I am reading about a GIVEAWAY. A book with the title IN THE EYE OF THE STORM by Sir John Houghton is to be won. It is an autobiography.

In order to win a copy of the book IN THE EYE OF THE STORM the question Why do we need to look after the Planet? is to be answered.

As you can well imagine after leaving the Environment Centre, I am really thinking about the answer to that question.

Arriving at our home I am looking up Genesis 1:28, where God says:

“‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and SUBDUE it. RULE over the fish of the sea and the birds  of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.'”

The words “SUBDUE” and “RULE”  in that verse are important to me. I looked the two words up in the dictionary and read the meanings of the the two words.

Listen to what Tom McMillan says:

“For 200 years we’ve been CONQUERING Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.”

And this is the written answer I received at the Far North Environment Centre today:

“Humans cannot survive without the Planet, that’s why we should look after the Planet.”

"Partnering with you for a better environment"

“Partnering with you for a better environment”

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Collins English Dictionary:

SUBDUE: to overcome and bring (a person or people) under control by persuasion or force
CONQUERING: to gain possession of (a place) by force or war

Sermon Outline – OT – NIV

THE CROSS

THE CROSS

“But Ruth replied,

Ruth 1:16,17

Intr.:

‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you.

1.  Where you GO I will go, and

2.  where you STAY I will stay.

3.  Your PEOPLE will be my people and

4.  your GOD my God.

5.  Where you DIE I will die, and there I will be buried.

End:

May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.'”

ENCOURAGEMENT

ENCOURAGED I was when I received two little booklets (Gospel news for eternal salvation: THE HOLY SPIRIT and ETERNITY) today when walking back from church from an elderly man.

I started talking to the man and  discovered that he did not belong to a Pentecostal Church but to the Exclusive Brethren.

How good it is to receive encouragement to tell others what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for us (Personal Evangelism).

I hope you are also encouraged.

The Lord says in Matthew 10:32,33:

 “‘WHOEVER  ACKNOWLEDGES ME BEFORE MEN, I WILL ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM BEFORE MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.

BUT WHOEVER DISOWNS ME BEFORE MEN, I WILL DISOWN HIM BEFORE MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.'”