Category Archives: Be Encouraged

SECOND CHANCE

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“A second chance,” I am reading in a handbook  of Christian belief and I know that I am actually finding what I am looking for. The handbook is called KNOW THE TRUTH and is written by Bruce Milne. The foreword is written by J. I. Packer.

Seen in Mangonui last Tuesday.

I am still thinking about the sign “2nd chance” I saw this morning in Mangonui. Also while reading the local paper there, The Northland Age, I read in a column about “a second chance for young people.” It was a Maxim Institute column.

In the handbook of Christian belief it says that “The idea of a ‘second chance’ to respond to the Gospel during the intermediate state is often incorporated in some statements of universalism.” In the handbook it says also that “There is no biblical foundation for this view.”

Please read Hebrews 9:27 and Luke 16:19-31.

Hebrews 9:27 says:

“JUST AS MAN IS DESTINED TO DIE ONCE, AND AFTER THAT TO FACE JUDGMENT, …”

FATHER’S DAY 2018

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We celebrate Father’s Day on 2 September.

About fathers in the faith, about spiritual fathers, we read in the Bible in First Corinthians 4:15:

“FOR EVEN IF YOU HAD TEN THOUSAND OTHERS TO TEACH YOU ABOUT CHRIST, YOU HAVE ONLY ONE SPIRITUAL FATHER,” writes the Apostle Paul. (New Living Translation)

“My dad can fix anything.”

Who are the spiritual fathers and where are they?

They are the men of God who have something what we also long to have. They are men of spiritual maturity. They are men who display the life of Christ and inspire us to do the same. They are the men who remodel the Lord Jesus Christ.

In First Corinthians 11:1 the Apostle Paul writes: “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.”

Today the world is desperate for spiritual fathers. Do you have a spiritual father in your life?

“Father’s Day”

Golden Nugget

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Who knows the name of this flower?

“‘YOU DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE TOO, DO YOU?’ JESUS ASKED THE TWELVE. SIMON PETER ANSWERED HIM, ‘LORD, TO WHOM SHALL WE GO? YOU HAVE THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE.'” – John 6:67,68

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“I SUGGEST THAT WE CAN NEVER TRULY UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD, HAD TO COME INTO THE WORLD UNLESS WE UNDERSTAND THIS DOCTRINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD AND THE JUDGMENT OF GOD.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

MOST INSPIRING STORY

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“The most inspiring story I ever heard and why?” is one of the questions in the “TABLE TALKERS” box. If you have read previous posts on this blog you will remember the Table Talkers box. On the box is written, “Find out the answers to 46 revealing questions in this box and get to know your friends and family a whole lot better at your next social occasion.”

I read the most inspiring story I ever came across in the book called THE PASTOR’S WIFE by Sabina Wurmbrand.

At the very end of the book she tells the story of a boy standing at the beach and waving to a ship on the ocean. That steamer will not change its course because of the waving of the little boy, thinks a man who observes all that. He had hardly told the boy how silly he was, when the steamer changed its course and picked up the boy at his side. While the steamer took off the boy stood on the bridge and with his loudest voice he called to the man at the beach that he was not a fool and that the captain was his father.

Now I have told you the most inspiring story I have ever heard and here is the reason why?

In the last sentence of the book the writer says that we know two things about God who steers the universe on its course.

We don’t only know that God is our Father, but that he also hears our prayers.