All Blog Posts Tagged 'work' (5)

RESTORING THE OLD DOORS THE BRICK CHURCH

I go to a church where our brick building was built about 200 years ago. It is a beautiful building, but has been very costly to keep up. We have 2 double doors on the front of the church that had cracked paint, and were a mess from… Continue

Praise the Lord for this new day!! His mercies are new every morning. Ahhhh!! We can start again, leaving yesterday's hassles behind, and tackle the things that bothered us then with a new vigour and a fresh mind. Thank the Lord for a refreshing sleep. And as I sit with Lord on our front verandah, enjoying… Continue

We read in the Bible that Jesus went about doing good. (See Acts 10:38.) That included many, many healings and deliverances. And because we are Christ's, we too will only want to seek to do good to others. However, there is a trap!! We must be careful not to get so caught up in good works, that we are not doing God's work. Let's look how Jesus handled all this when He was on earth. Even though He was God, He was human like us, with the limitations of a physical body. He could see the human nee… Continue

Oh, bother! Brothers and sisters, please pray for me!! Today is the second day in a row that I have frittered away my time, not fully devoting my attention to my studies and writing a paper that was due two days ago! Every time I sit down at the computer, my attention is drawn elsewhere. When I awaken in the morning and take the kids to school, I find that I am drawn into taking care of the day's errands. When that is done, I come home and wander the house, trying to work myself up to sitting do… Continue

"Be still and Know that I am God" I was raised in a home where there was little stillness. Actually, there was no stillness. There was anxiety, fervor, tension, and always the answer to problems was to do more, to scurry faster when things were not going right. The way of doing things was to react, sharply, to negative situations. For twenty years now as a Christian, I have been learning from Christ and his word how to un-learn that pattern. But, the things we learn in childhood can be so powe… Continue