“If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back.” Matthew 18:15 Something you would know if you were good friends with me is that I like to engage in a bit of light-hearted teasing banter. I am quite […]
Category: Life
I'm not a vampire but…
I spent the summer working at a Christian camp in New York. As I’m from Northern Ireland where we get approximately 17 hours of rain-free sunlight a year I was somewhat lacking in sun tan at the start of the summer. This was especially obvious whenever I was swimming and had my T-shirt off and […]
Where is _____?
Some day we are going to get to heaven. And the Bible tells us that when we do Jesus will welcome us with a “Well done my good and faithful servant.”(Matthew 25:23). But what if that isn’t the end of the exchange. What if He keeps going “It’s great to see you here, but where is […]
Procrastination
Procrastination is something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while, but I’ve never quite gotten around to it until now. The Oxford English Dictionary defines procrastination as “postponing action”, and I have a suspicion that God isn’t too impressed when we engage in it. Because we only have a limited amount of time […]
Chosen and called
Quite often in Christian circles you hear how we have been called or chosen by God. The Bible states it quite clearly in Ephesians 1:11 when Paul reminds us that “he chose us from the beginning”. But what does that mean? What have we been called for? Why have we been chosen? The first thing to […]
Too easily pleased
“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant […]
Affirmations
“So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Something we are called to do is to encourage and build up our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. And something I know I’m not very good at always doing is building up and encouraging my fellow brothers and […]
Unfinished Business
“There’s a river of love that’s here, There’s a river of grace that’s here You’re invited to come and swim within Death to the past it’s gone Here’s to a new beginning Our God’s not finished yet with us.” River – Bluetree God is not finished yet with us. Who we are now is not […]
Not our plans
I have a list of ideas for articles that I want to write up for All4God. (Tip – keep a note of ideas you get as you get them so that you will remember them when you have time to do something about them. I have lost many potential devotions because I didn’t jot down […]
What is unseen
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” 2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV This is a verse that challenges us about where our focus is. It is easy to get caught up in what is right in front of […]