Or simply Another case of Ichabod? (Ichabod means “The glory has departed”, and was the name chosen by a dying mother at the birth of her son. The story is told in 1 Samuel ch 4:19ff. It occurred when the news came to her that the core of the faith of Continue Reading
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A serious word from ‘The Messenger’
“Then those who respected the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name. “They will belong to me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as Continue Reading
“The half has never been told”
One of the sinister prophecies made by the Holy Spirit to Paul 1 was a future in the very church where it could be said of the believers that they “have a form of godliness but are denying the power of it’. It describes the intolerable possibility of standing on Continue Reading
Nobody gets too much heaven no more
This piece of writing is intended to be an in depth study of the question concerning where we go at the point of our own death. Occasioned by the embarrassing words of well-meaning but poorly informed ministers at the gravesides of believers and non believers alike. “She has gone to Continue Reading
Fellowship in the Spirit
God knows the end from the beginning. God knows the end from the beginning. But here we start at the end and go back to the beginning. Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace Continue Reading
Together with Him
“If you have been raised with Him..” If…? Why the question mark? Well throughout the history of the Christian Church the members have been drilled in responding to a formal creed and once you have learned to repeat them then you are ‘in’. The Creed sums up the basic tennets Continue Reading
Taste and see that the Lord is good
Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh Continue Reading
The eating disorders of the Church; The Anorectic Church
You are what you eat. If you have at all followed my writings here you will have noticed that I have a hobby horse. I insist in repeating over and over that the word of God, the bible as interpreted by the Spirit to the regenerate heart, is the sole Continue Reading
Does abide not mean abide at all?
Abide with me? There are a number of reasons for why words are used today in a fashion that was never there in their original meaning. Language is said to ‘evolve’ along with the culture in which it is used. That becomes evident when you go to literature that was Continue Reading
The deaths of God at the hands of sinners
The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable Romans 11:29 Not so long ago a man wrote a book with the title “Honest to God”. The erstwhile Bishop John A T Robinson wrote a book in which he threw out ‘The God out there’ and made God the ground of being Continue Reading