Reducing Crime

“Time to bring in the dog to reduce crime,” I am reading on the front page of our local paper, THE NORTHLAND AGE. (Tuesday, May 7, 2013)

KAWAKAWA IS A TOURIST MAGNET - THE VINTAGE RAILWAY ON THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

KAWAKAWA IS A TOURIST MAGNET – THE VINTAGE RAILWAY

There is a staff shortage at the KAWAKAWA police station and at the KAITAIA police station and it is difficult for the police to get on top of  burglaries and wilful damage.

Calls to the KAWAKAWA police station  don’t go further than the answerphone. (The Northland Age, Thursday, May 9, 2013)

But business people and residents in both towns are working towards reducing crime.

“SOW FOR YOURSELVES RIGHTEOUSNESS, REAP THE FRUIT OF UNFAILING LOVE, AND BREAK UP THE UNPLOUGHED GROUND; FOR IT IS TIME TO SEEK THE LORD, UNTIL HE COMES AND SHOWERS RIGHTEOUSNESS ON YOU,”  we are reading in Hosea 10:12

And in Isaiah 65:24 we read, “Before they CALL I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.”  

Sermon Outline – OT – NIV

"SHOUT FOR JOY TO THE LORD, ..."

“SHOUT FOR JOY TO THE LORD, …”

“Shout for joy to the LORD,

Psalm 98:4-6

Intr.:

all the earth,

1. burst into jubilant song with music;

2. make music to the LORD with the harp,

3.  with the harp and the sound of singing,

4.  with trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn-

End:

shout for joy before the LORD, the King.”

Walking Post: 4,905

I am walking almost every day, but I still have to find out how many miles I walk in one day.

HARAKEKE - FLAX

HARAKEKE – FLAX

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy, but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White