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Category Archives: A Message for the Year 2009
Miscellaneous
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MISCELLANEOUS
Age Concern
KAITAIA, Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Age Concern Kaitaia and District & Tiaho Trust, Seniors’ Expo,
Te Ahu Centre, 10:00am – 2:00pm
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KAITAIA, Thursday, October 4, 2018
Adrienne Puckey is a direct descendant of early Church Missionary Society missionaries of the Far North. At 5pm she talked about her book By Bible, Hammer and Compass at Marston Moor.
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Genealogy
KAITAIA, Saturday, October 6, 2018
Workshop of the NZ Society of Genealogy (Far North) at Far North REAP. Tracking families, ” brick walls and breakthroughs”. The workshop starts at 10am.
DAYLIGHT SAVING
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Starting of Daylight Saving: Sunday, September 30, 2018
STARTING OF DAYLIGHT SAVING
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2018
At 2.00 am the clocks go forward 1 hour
Quote German
“ICH HABE NUR EINE PASSION, UND DIE IST ER, NUR ER!” – Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf
“Do you believe this?”
“JESUS SAID TO HER, ‘I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME WILL LIVE, EVEN THOUGH HE DIES; AND WHOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME WILL NEVER DIE. DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?”’ – John 11:25
“Will YOU be there?”
“Will you be there?” is written on the front of the envelope. I probably will never know what the content of the letter is all about, because the letter is not addressed to me. It goes back to the sender.
“Will you be there?”
But what a good question. I am reminded of my eternal destiny.
Not long ago I came across the Maori proverb, which says: “INA KEI TE MOHIO KOE KO WAI KOE, I ANGA MAI KOE I HEA, KEI TE MOHIO KOE. KEI TE ANGA ATU KI HEA.” “If you know who you are and where you are from, then you will know where you are going.”
I know that I am a child of God. I know also where I come from. “From the beginning of creation God made them male and female,” the Lord says in Mark 10:6, referring to Genesis 1:27. That is significant. As a child of God I know where I am going. And as a child of God I am also certain about my eternal destiny. I enjoy the certainty with confidence. I give also praise to God for the certainty.
Are you familiar with the hymn “When the roll is called up yonder,” by James Black, who lived from 1856-1938?
The hymn has three verses. The first verse begins with “When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more, …” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). I love that!. And all three verses end with “I’ll be there,” including the chorus.
I know that “I’ll be there.” Why? Because it says so in the Bible. In 1 John 5:13 we read, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
But now the question is “Will you be there?” You can know!
“WHO DO YOU CALL?”
“Who do you call?” it says almost in the center of the page. It is a page in the newspaper, where you find the adverts.
You call an Electrician for all aspects of electrical work.
Telephone
You call a Stonemason for all aspects of rock work and repairs.
You call “Shower Solutions” for Installation, Repairs & Shower Domes.
But who do you call for a guilty conscience?
You call the Lord Jesus Christ for a guilty conscience.
In Hebrews 10:22 the Bible says:
“let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.”
I know for sure that “A clear conscience makes a soft pillow,” was used many years ago as a church sign.
“SECRET THINGS”
“STOP THINKING TOO MUCH, IT’S ALRIGHT NOT TO KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS,” is one of the seven lovely logics, I find in the local July 2013 Age Concern newsletter.
There are “The secret things” and there are “the things revealed”.
The Bible speaks about them in Deuteronomy 29:29. (Easy to remember!)
There it says:
STOP