Christian Meditative Poetry to Encourage and Challenge
Posted in POEMS, Poems New Testament on Mar 29th, 2009
Hi All In this time it is so easy to be focussed on finances and on ensuring we get through as well as possible. Yet I wonder if this pulls us away, distracts us from hearing God. Do we want to lay hold of what Christ Jesus has laid hold for us. Part of […]
Posted in Poems Old Testament on Mar 22nd, 2009
Hi Isaiah 40 marks the beginning of the second part of Isaiah. Isaiah indicates to the exiles in Babylon that God can make a way to bring them back to Jerusalem. He calls upon them to recognise that their God is not unaware of their needs, their ways aren’t hidden from him and that their […]
One of the essential truths shown in Nehemiah is that if a people put aside their fears, give of who they are despite their weaknesses God will honour it and give the increase. As we see Paul write in 1 Corinthian the church is like a body, it has many parts and for that Body […]
Posted in POEMS, Poems Old Testament on Mar 8th, 2009
Hi, A break from Nehemiah to Isaiah 55. Isaiah was calling the Israelites back from captivity in Babylon, and at the same time calling to a place of repentance. I have been wrestling with this chapter for a number of years and am convinced in light of the current economic times that now more than […]