Posts from September 2018

Pastors Ponderings

  After the death of a one of our longest standing members, we as a people are naturally hurting.  This week’s think spot (from aMrs Jesus follower*) gives a timely and unique encouragement to see God’s promises in every area of our lives.       13th  September:   It seemed strange that so soon after Marge’s death the scripture that kept going through my mind was, ‘Behold I make everything new.’ Wasn’t that inappropriate? But, regardless, it kept coming back.…

Pastors Ponderings

Vision is something the bible talks about frequently.  In the Old testament Solomon encouraged God’s people to set their ‘heart and soul to seek the Lord your God’.  Proverbs tells us that for the lack of vision people perish. We are told to ‘Seek first the Kingdom of God’. These are all quite broad statements; however I believe that God also calls us to seek Him for his vision both individually and as a local church here at Christies Beach.…

Pastors Ponderings

Acts in a Nutshell. We’ve reached the end of our study the book of Acts. It’s taken a while and so I thought you might appreciate a recap on the main points from Acts. (I took this from the ESV commentary.) Acts begins in Jerusalem, preaching to the Jews and focuses on the ministry of the apostle Peter. It ends with the gospel being preached in Rome to Gentiles and focuses on the apostle Paul. The direction of Acts is…

Pastors Ponderings

  What freedom means to me by Phil S.  I’ve been thinking about what freedom in Christ means to me personally.  To me, it’s yielding to Jesus and emptying myself to him, putting on Christ, and dying to myself and all the world things.  It seems to me, the more I empty out, the more he fills me with the Holy Spirit.  As I listen to the conviction of Holy Spirit and confess my sins and nail them to the…