ACTS 4:36-37 Imagine your name being changed due to the fact that you have become so popular because of your actions – and people now choose to give you a nickname, like “Good Man.” Suppose that nickname becomes so pronounced that people who hear about you do not even know your real name again. That was exactly … [Read more…]
1 SAMUEL 17:42 Even before the baby girl was born, doctors knew she was going to be small. She was delivered by emergency caesarean section after spending only 23 weeks and three days in gestation because her mother was suffering from a life-threatening condition that can slow a baby’s growth in the womb. Doctors doubted Baby … [Read more…]
PSALM 133:1-3 Elephants are smart, emotional, self-aware and highly social creatures. As their herds move, they will walk at the pace of their slowest member. Perhaps they are the equivalent of the US marines slogan, ‘Leave no one behind’. As disciples we have a responsibility to ensure we are united and we care for our own. Christian unity … [Read more…]
ISAIAH 12:4 From 1618 to 1648, Europe, and especially Germany, was devastated by famine, disease and destruction during the Thirty Years’ War. Martin Rinkart served as a German Lutheran clergyman during that period of war and plague. One year he conducted more than 4,000 funerals, including that of his wife. He is best known for the … [Read more…]
DEUTERONOMY 8:2 A lady once approached her pastor with a complaint. She told him she had noticed a lot of repetition in his sermons. “Why do you do that?” she queried. The pastor replied, “People forget.” Everyone forgets things; like a person’s name, where they left their keys, the ending to a movie, how to do … [Read more…]
MATTHEW 7:7-8 One of the longest postal delays in history lasted for eighty-nine years. In 2008, Janet Barrett, a guesthouse owner in Weymouth, Dorset, UK, received the letter mailed to a former resident of her address – an RSVP to a Boxing Day party invitation, which was posted on 29 November 1919. The reason behind its … [Read more…]
HEBREWS 11:1 The book of Hebrews was written with Jewish audience in mind. The Jews saw themselves as physical heirs of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Before hearing about Jesus, they identified with a visible land, city, and temple. Now, they were faced with the fears and unknowns of following Jesus, and some were having second thoughts. … [Read more…]
ISAIAH 41:10 I want to live for a least 120 years if Jesus tarries. How about you? South African Fredie Blom was born in Adelaide, Eastern Cape, and while he was still young he moved to Cape Town. A significant part of his family died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Blom spent most of his life … [Read more…]
ECCLESIASTES 3:7 Imagine life without our mobile phones, Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi, or microwave ovens. That is exactly the way life is in the small town of Green Bank, West Virginia, known as “the quietest town in America.” Green Bank is located within the National Radio Quiet Zone, which means that radio transmissions are heavily restricted by … [Read more…]
JOHN 2:19 After a demolition company pulled down the wrong building, investigators discovered that the owner of a house scheduled to be demolished nailed the numbers of his own address to a neighbour’s house to avoid demolition. Jesus did the opposite. He was on a mission to let His own “house” be torn down for the sake … [Read more…]
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