Posts Tagged ‘Christ Jesus’
Accomplishing The Mission of Jesus
Do we really understand the desperate needs that exist around us? Late one afternoon staff at Faith Children’s Village brought a lone visitor to see out Administrator. The young visitor was a little girl, 11 years old. She had walked all day, crossing the Kafue River to find this place where she heard that people cared for…
Read MoreHow To Walk Worthy of Your Calling
In our series on Discovering the Church we have looked at four pictures of the church. We have seen the church as a family and the goal is maturity. We also saw the church as a field – the goal being the quantity of our fruitfulness. We have seen the church as a building the temple…
Read MoreThe Need For The Cross
Palm Sunday is typically remember for the triumphant entrance of Christ into Jerusalem. From the Jew’s point of view in that day, this was the highlight of His ministry. And yet by Friday He was hanging on the cross, dying the tortured death of a criminal. What went wrong in five days to fall from…
Read MoreA Model Church For A Modern World
A church is a gathering of Christians for the purpose of displaying God’s glory by becoming increasingly like Jesus Christ (Eph. 3:10-11).
“The church is God’s missile of salt and light hurled into the world to proclaim the triumphant message of sins forgiven and lives transformed.” – R. Kent Hughes, Acts
Read MoreMarriage: A Picture of Perfect Love
I hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day yesterday. It is meant to be a celebration of love and that applies to all of us in all ages because God is love and he demonstrated his love for all of us. For those of you who are married, I hope it had even more significance…
Read MoreThe REAL Story of Christmas
We all are likely to have unique Christmas memories from our childhood. Mine include cutting down the family Christmas tree, and snow – lots of snow. One particular Christmas as a little boy, my brother and I went with my dad into the forest to cut a pine tree. In the forest the tree looked…
Read MoreThe BACKSTORY of Christmas
In 1979, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth visited the city of Kitwe, Zambia. Old-timers who were present and met the queen still talk about that glorious day! When you experience a wonderful and life-changing visit by a special or important person, everyone you meet must know the story! That is why after 2000 years the majority of…
Read MoreThe Promise of a Savior
After having the privilege of being with you for the last two weeks of your study in John 10 where we saw Jesus presenting himself as the good shepherd, it is my honor to speak to you today as we use the month of December to focus on Christmas – the birth of Jesus, who…
Read MoreI Am The Door
Owners of the house come through the door! If you see someone climbing through the bathroom window in the dark of night – its a pretty good possibility that its either your teenager trying to sneak home after curfew or it is a thief! We moved to Kitwe in May 1993 and moved to a…
Read MoreMud & Miracles
I hate Zesco – power cuts. It is evening, the sun has set and you have plans for the evening. Suddenly you hear that dreaded sound: “thunk!” Everything goes dark. What is your immediate response? You run for the light – a candle, a torch, or switch on an inverter. Around our house when Zesco cuts…
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