In about a month we’ll enter Passion Week, the final week of Jesus before He was crucified and rose from the dead on the third day.  Like a bull’s eye, Passion Week is the center of Christianity; it is the center the carries the whole weight of God’s work of salvation. In his book, The [&...

We have heard a saying that when God closes a door, He will open a window, which means God often directs our steps by either closing or opening a way. The fact that we have prayed for direction does not necessarily mean that we will get the greenlights all the way.  No, there are times [&hellip...

I think most of us do not know who Merle Oberon was.  Well, I did not, either, until I came across this article about her.  She’s an actor who was nominated for an Oscar in 1935, for her movie, “The Dark Angel.”  But what caught my attention was not this part of her life, but [&...

Tante Bertha did not attend our church; she belonged to the Body of Christ in a different location.  However, her daughter, son in-law, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and their families along with her niece and nephew, attend our church.  This week, Tante Bertha, the mother of Tante S...

On Thursday, near midnight, Jesus Our Lord came to take Oom Tim home.  He was several days short of 92.  Oom Tim usually came to church with his son, John, and after the service, they did not stay for lunch.  John normally took Oom Tim out to eat.  Once a month I and several memb...

I have met people in ministry who plainly told me that they wanted to do great things for God.  None has done great things for God, in fact, some’ve done great damage to the name and the work of God.  I suspect the problem lies not in their desire to do great things for God, […]...

I think we all have fighting instinct.  Some have it under control, some struggle to control it, while some are under its control. We who are under the control of our fighting instinct are often not keen to feedback because we see it as an attack or a criticism. As a result, we receive less [&h...

By the grace of God, the fires are under control.  We don’t know for how long but at least for now, we can take a deep breath.  We, who have lived in this country long enough should by now have known that natural disasters are not an exception to the rule.  They are the norms. ...

THE SHEPHERD’S CORNER I don’t know if you have been following the news about the fire or not, but I have.  Firstly, I’d like to thank God for holding the wind down last Tuesday and Wednesday.  Instead of 40 to 50 miles/hour the wind blew at a much slower speed.  Consequently, th...

Last Tuesday and Wednesday will be etched in our memory as the days Los Angeles burned.  Thousands of homes have been burned to the ground and thousands of people are without shelters.  In one day, their lives were upended; they were robbed of their belongings and left without certainty ab...