PrayerIt’s hard to imagine a world before smartphones or a time when your spouse, friend, or neighbor wasn’t just a click away. Things are very different today. It seems like you can be in contact with anyone, anywhere, and at any time. It’s the blessing and curse of modern technology!Prayer has jestingly been described as the oldest and most advanced form of technology there is. In the same way y...  Read More

WorshipThere is a special time in most church services where the people of God stand and sing praises to God together. Some churches sing out of a hymn book while others sing with the accompaniment of a full band and electric guitars. The styles of worship songs vary from church to church, but the aim is the same—to glorify God! The time of praise and worship during the service is wonderful, but i...  Read More

Dwell In His PresenceIn verse six of Psalm 23, David says: “I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” He has confidence. There is no doubt where he will make his home. “Dwell,” in Hebrew, implies a returning. In the one-year life of the sheep, this is the return home from the highlands to the familiar corrals, barns, and shelters of the main ranch. It is a return home after having followed t...  Read More

We Are The SheepIn ancient literature, sheep were referred to as “those of the golden hooves” because they were regarded and esteemed so highly for their beneficial effect on the land. They would eat the top parts of the plants and leave the roots, which caused the plants to grow; they would eat invasive plants that were not good for the land; they would trample the ground; and then they would fer...  Read More

Job 19:25-27 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.  Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; Whom I myself shall behold,  And whom my eyes will see and not another.  My heart faints within me!...  Read More

he translation for the Hebrew word hessed–will follow you all the days of your life. What a great statement of faith from David! He is saying this during a difficult time in his life, while he is hiding in a cave from his enemies, who are after him. However, David’s focus has changed; he is no longer seeing his enemies pursuing him, but the goodness and loyal love of God.Has there been a time in y...  Read More

BLESSING IN SUFFERING“God will work all things together for good.”It’s the last thing you want to hear in the middle of suffering, but it doesn’t stop it from being true. God really can and does work all things together for good.In Job Chapter 42:12 it says, ‘now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning.’After losing his servants, his crops, his livestock and even his childr...  Read More

WHAT DO I SAY TO OTHERS IN SUFFERING?It’s hard to know what to say to someone when they are suffering. Sometimes we say things that cause more pain and suffering because we don’t have a solid theology in this area.In Job 2:11 we see 3 of Job’s best friends come to comfort him in his suffering. It says as they looked at him from a distance, they did not recognise him. They wept at what they discove...  Read More

WHAT IS GOD SAYING IN MY SUFFERING?Although it doesn’t feel like it at the time, suffering is an amazing opportunity for revelation to come about the nature of God. There is nothing like suffering to catapult us toward Him. In that process of coming to Him, we discover Him afresh. And often new revelation will come through what He speaks to us.C.S. Lewis said, "God whispers to us in our pleasures,...  Read More

Job 13:13-16 Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come on me what may.  Why should I take my flesh in my teeth And put my life in my hands?  Though He slay me, I will hope in Him.  Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.  This also will be my salvation, For a godless man may not come before His presence....  Read More

WHERE ARE YOU GOD?Two questions I believe we ask in the middle of suffering are: 1/Who are you God? 2/Where are you God?We ask God, Are you ambivalent? Are you faithful? Do you care? Are you powerless? Are you powerful? Who are you in my suffering?Moments of suffering can bring the fear of divine indifference, rejection, or judgment. Is this suffering a rejection of me or is it punishment? These q...  Read More

THE UNINVITED GUESTSuffering is unwanted because it is not pleasant. It feels wrong and in a sense it is. It was not part of God's plan for us to suffer. However, the catastrophic event, the fall of man means suffering is now a normal part of our life. To avoid suffering would mean to avoid life altogether. So, what do we do when this inevitable suffering comes? How are we supposed to respond? And...  Read More