YOUR PLASTIC FANTASTIC
“Kiwis spend more than $32 billion on credit and charge cards per year.
MWE Consulting Card Report March 2013″
“… more than $32 billion …”
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How do you make Peace with your Past?
“Make Peace with your Past
So it doesn’t spoil your Present.”
I am reading that in the local Age Concern newsletter. (July 2013)
How do we make Peace with our Past?
THE CROSS
“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him [Jesus], and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making Peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” – Colossians 1:19,20
“GIVE BLOOD HERE”
The sign I saw yesterday in the middle of our town made me think again about the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ justifies us.
“SAVE BLOOD HERE”
Romans 5:9
2. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us holy.
Hebrews 13:12
3. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ purchased us.
Revelation 5:9
4. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ purifies us.
First John 1:7
5.The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us overcomers (conquerers).
Revelation 12:11
6. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ gives us peace.
Colossians 1:20
7. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ gives us protection.
Exodus 12:12,13
And I know that the Lord Jesus Christ shed his blood for me!
Maori Language Week TE WIKI O TE REO MAORI
Celebrating
Maori Language Week
1-7 July
TE WIKI O TE REO MAORI
PUKENUI
Pukenui BIG HILL
Maori Saying:
He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata! He tangata! He tangata!
Translated:
What is the most important thing in the world? It is people! It is people! It is people!
Mangonui
Mangonui BIG SHARK
SELF-EXAMINATION
“The unexamined life is not worth living,” is a quotation from Socrates.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
1. “Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.” – Lamentation 3:40 (NIV)
2. “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; …” – Second Corinthians 13:5 (NIV)
“Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine.” – Second Corinthians 13:5 (NLT)
3. “A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.” – First Corinthians 11:28 (NIV)
“That’s why you must examine the way you eat and drink. If you fail to understand that you are the body of the Lord, you will condemn yourselves by the way you eat and drink.” – First Corinthians 11:28,29 (New Testament in Contemporary English)
Is YOUR life worth living?
KAITAIA TIMEBANK
Saturday Market in Kaitaia
Today, while visiting the Saturday Market here in Kaitaia, I picked up some information concerning the KAITAIA TIMEBANK.
Kaitaia TimeBank is a project by Transition Town Kaitaia.
On the information sheet it says:
“TimeBanking is a system that allows members to trade time and skills in return for time credits. Giving an hour of your time helping someone, earns an hour of someone’s time helping you.”
“1 hour of time is 1 time credit.”
“Tell it like it is!”
Let me encourage you with two minor incidents. They happened yesterday.
I was on my way to our library here in Kaitaia, to make a copy of something I read in a magazine there recently.
LIBRARY – Te Ahu Community Centre
Walking on the footpath of Commerce Street, I saw a beautiful rainbow over our town. “What a picture,” came to my mind. But I did not have my camera on me to take it. You can send pictures to the editor of our local paper and sometimes they appear there under “This is our Place”.
Arriving at the library I looked for the magazine and, yes, I could not find it. Somebody had borrowed it.
I cannot take a picture of the rainbow I saw yesterday, but I can wait until the magazine is in the library again.
How do I know that you are encouraged? Because I just know! (You can identfy with happenings like this.)
“More Power to You”
“MORE POWER TO YOU.”
If I remember correctly, that must have been the words somewhere at the end of the letter the leader of the home base in Germany received from the field leader in Thailand, concerning my coming as a missionary to Thailand.
“More power to you.”
POWER