Posts from 2018 (Page 4)
Pastors Ponderings
This week’s blurb comes from Mrs Jesus follower. She says exactly what the Spirit has been saying to me this week. Blessed to Bless Others I had read through Ephesians as Paul intended…straight through as I would a letter. I was truly blessed in a whole new way! So, with a surge of enthusiasm, I decided to study it in depth but didn’t get past the first few verses! What amazing truths are tucked away in those first few verses…
I’m losing my mind
Oh no, I’m losing my mind…a familiar cry for some of us? But today my cry was somewhat different. Oh, no! I’m losing the mind of my Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, I’m not seeing my world as Christ sees it. I often debrief through the small hours of the morning…sometimes it’s purposeful but other times my mind seems to scan through my day and God reveals to me things I’d rather not look at. I saw the shop…
Pastors Ponderings
Last Sunday Julie and I talked about our journey in regards to giving. We thought we had our giving sorted. Generally speaking we gave 10% of all of our income to our ‘storehouse’ which we understand to be the local church – the community where we were Spiritually nourished. However, although we have seen amazing provision and blessing in our lives through following the principle of ‘tithing’ we have come to understand that the scriptures encourage us not to simply…
Every day Easter
I’ve been thinking… Easter or Every Day? The cross is the moment where good and evil faced their ultimate battle. It would be going on 50 years since I first really recognised the victory of the cross and the spiritual battle we are in as believers and followers of our Lord Jesus Christ; fifty years since I first saw the power in Jesus Name…the power, protection and victory in the blood of Jesus Christ. It was a truth that was…
Pastors Ponderings
If you would learn more, ask the cattle, Seek information from the birds of the air. The creeping things of earth will give you lessons, And the fishes of the sea will tell you all. There is not a single creature that does not know That everything is of God’s making. God holds in power the soul of every living thing, And the breath of every human body. —Book of Job 12:7-10 I was at Kids for Christ (KFC) on…
A slow burn
My church I have looked and seen your hearts, and a time of healing has come, a time I have set aside. I shall refine my people in these days. I have said, I have lit a fire in my church and I shall breathe upon it with my breath until it burns white hot with fire, a refining fire. When gold enter s the furnace it is heated the impurities rise to the surface, it is then scraped off…
Pastors Ponderings
Easter is fast approaching. I am beginning to wonder if 2018 has decided that it is a race towards Christmas…a race to see just how quickly it can get here. I don’t want to flick through the events of this coming year as if I were thumbing through the pages of a book to catch quick glances of the highlights and illustrations. Instead, I need to take some moments of time deliberately in hand. Stop, look at them, and savour…
Pastors Ponderings
God places the lonely in families; he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy. But he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land. Psalm 68:6 (NLT) It was getting on for 5 years ago that Julie and I first walked into CBBC. We had been in Australia for three years and had lost our way a little bit. In the UK we had been a key part of a wonderful church movement where we had planted a church,…
Feed Me
You feed them! It had happened again. It was one of those moments where, from a familiar passage of scripture, something new jumped out at me. It was early one morning when I was reading through Luke and came to the familiar story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand where Jesus said, ‘You find them something to eat.’ Why did Jesus ask this question, I wondered and what did he expect from his disciples? Reading back through the earlier…
Pastors Ponderings
Here is the latest blog from ‘Mrs Jesus follower’. You can catch up with all her thoughts on the CBBC website. I gave the dear man a hug and walked to the car. A feeling of helplessness swept over me and it was with a heavy heart that I drove away leaving him alone and in despair. My heart was crying out…this is where we all are without hope! This emptiness…this feeling that life was no longer worth living was…
Pastors Ponderings
This week’s perspective comes from Steve, who is on the leadership team here at CBBC. When focusing on our month-long perspective on ‘Hope’, I wanted to focus on a perspective that is faith based. Not a blind faith, but faith in the One who is faithful. When we look at life through faith-based hope it gives us a redeemed perspective on life—life will look different and looking at life differently can lead to a changed attitude, resulting in changed behaviour.…
A moment in time
There are a few times in my life where I’ve experienced a time warp. One such time was when I discovered some lost letters from an uncle whom I’d never had the privilege to know. I curled up on the lounge and became lost in another world. I was a little girl again enjoying wandering through the paddocks of our farm but this time I was spending time with a kind, caring fun loving uncle. I cried for the times…