The Pastor’s Pen

I wish to encourage you to walk in hope. Christians live with the tension of being created for eternity and reborn for Heaven, while temporarily confined within the mortal boundaries of this earthly life. It is faith, hope, and love which fuel our expectation of being promoted to our intended destination, eternity. Job, who understood…

I wish to encourage you to gather followers of Christ behind you. I’m intrigued by the simple yet profound way Jesus called His disciples. Take, for example …Simon and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he (Jesus) said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you…

I wish to encourage you to walk in wisdom. The word “wisdom” occurs some 200 times in Scripture, obviously it’s significant to God. Most of us realise that this world’s idea of wisdom is very different to God’s wisdom and that it’s far too easy for us to make the same mistake that Israel did,…

I wish to encourage you to persevere in Christ’s clarity. The arch enemy of the Lord seems quite effective at clouding mankind’s thinking, even blinding the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God (2 Corinthians 4:4). Even…

I wish to encourage you to live for the excellence of Christ. It’s an immutable fact that Yahweh is an excellent God, and the God of all excellence. For those who have put repentant faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, His (God’s) divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and…

I wish to encourage you to look at your world through Jesus’ eyes. It’s understandably easy for us believers to become so accustomed to the way the world thinks, that we begin observing, reasoning, and responding to life the way the world does, but in Jesus name of course. Worldly preconditioning sways believers all too…

I wish to encourage you to be a Christ compelled learner. While learning can be a purposeful and enjoyable experience, for some it can easily become self-serving and self-exalting. Certainly, we live in a culture and time whereby learning itself is sometimes exalted with an almost divine status. However, morally and spiritually, our age is also marked…

I wish to encourage you to walk in courage. It can seem in life, as if courage only belongs to those who are arrogant, proud, egotistical, and domineering. While courage tends to be a quality that we typically think of in relation to the big challenges in life, it is in fact at the heart…

I wish to encourage you to walk in humility. We live in a world obsessed with self-image, self-importance, and self-promotion. But not so the children of God! Our deceitful hearts (Jeremiah 17:9) can so quickly mislead us into an unrighteous overestimation of self. It’s alarming that pride can so easily go undetected by self; however,…

I wish to encourage you to value fellowship as our Lord values it. We live in a time when, people who call themselves Christian, increasingly live in wilful isolation from the Body of Christ, the Church. While in their minds, there may be circumstances and reasons that justify this condition, however, here’s the question begging…