Christian joy is not just a giddy, light-hearted, frothy emotion. No, it’s meatier than that, it has substance. Joy is a bedrock we can build upon. It has endurance; it is strong enough to gird us up through even the darkest of days. Nehemiah 8:10 -“Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is […]
Hope
Hold On
I don’t know to whom I am writing this, but you know who you are. Please, if I can ask a favour of you? Even if things are really dark and you wonder if there will ever be light again on the horizon, hold on. Just a little longer. Hold on. One more […]
Advent Series Part Two He is Our Hope
Advent Series – Week Two – He is our Hope The second part in our Advent Series. Find the part one of this series, as well as the intro, here: Anxious parents, aged far beyond their years, raced behind the ambulance that carried their only son to the critical care hospital nearby. It was a […]
Feeling Like You are Late to the Party?
Ever feel like you are a last-minute addition to the party or that you might not even be REALLY welcome to the party even though your hosts say otherwise? The Gentile believers in Rome might have felt that way and Paul goes out of his way to reassure them they were invited guests after all. […]
Paris – The City of Lights
I join with millions of people around the world as we pray for Paris and stand strong with the people of France. City of Lights, we will not allow fear to diminish your light. We will not allow terror to dictate what your destiny will be. We proclaim: Paris! You are aptly name the City […]