“THOSE WHO CHASE HAPPINESS MISS IT, WHILE TO THOSE WHO PURSUE HOLINESS THROUGH THE GRACE OF CHRIST, HAPPINESS OF SPIRIT COMES UNASKED.” – J. I. Packer
Category Archives: Be Encouraged
Golden Nugget
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Cape Reinga in the Far North of Aotearoa.
“FOR I DELIGHT IN YOUR COMMANDS BECAUSE I LOVE THEM.” – Psalm 119:47
Seen Today on Commerce Street in Kaitaia
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KAITAIA: Seen on Commerce Street today.
Kuscheltiere DEUTSCH (German)
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KUSCHELTIERE: Sie werden gerne vergessen, mitzunehmen.
Ca.75.000 vegessene Kuscheltiere muss die Hotelkette Travelodge Gaesten nachschicken in einem Jahr.
“KEEP CALM …”
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WHANGAREI: Where most of the shops are.
“KEEP CALM …”
“Keep calm and drink coffee,” was written on the poster I saw some time ago in Whangarei. (Photo)
“Keep calm and carry on,” I read on a placard while sitting in a coffee shop in Kerikeri, when lifting up my eyes to the top of one wall.
“Keep calm and relax,” I remember reading on a sign that was almost tucked away under the counter in a shop here in Kaitaia.
“Keep calm and drink coffee.”
And that’s what I am doing right now!
MANGONUI: What a place for a cup of coffee!
Second Hand Books
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“Through Blood and Fire,” is one of the second hand book I bought not long ago for $1.00 called. Underneath the title of the book is written: “The Life of General William Booth. The book is written by Trevor Yaxley with Carolyn Vanderwal.
KAITAIA: Salvation Army Premises on Commerce Street.
NEGLECTED PARTS OF THE BIBLE
Winkie Pratney writes in his preface of the book that William and Catherine Booth preached neglected parts of the Bible, namely real surrender to the Person of God and real surrender to the purpose of God. Some sought Salvation without those two things and often feared to preach them and often avoided to preach them.
The foundation of the Booths was apostolic.
OBEDIENCE
When William Booth was very young he worked in a pawnshop and he was also required to work on a Sunday. He knew that working for a Christian on a Sunday was against the command of the Bible and he told his boss – who fired him.
But soon the owner of the pawnshop realized that he had lost his best worker and called him back and W. Booth was not forced to work on a Sunday any more.
If I would have bought the book “Through Blood and Fire” new, I would have paid $19.95. (Second hand $1.00.) And let us also remember that some of the good old books are out of print.
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“What can be a more fatal cause of religious declension than inactivity? Yet there are multitudes … professing to be Christians who do absolutely nothing for the salvation of souls.” – Catherine Booth
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“WE WANT MEN WHO ARE SET ON SOUL-SAVING; WHO ARE NOT ASHAMED TO LET EVERY ONE KNOW THAT THIS IS THE ONE AIM AND OBJECT OF THEIR LIFE AND THAT THEY MAKE EVERYTHING SECONDARY TO THIS.” – Catherine Booth