There are times when we encounter a real financial need, not for ourselves, but for others. It may be that the church we belong to is raising funds for some venture or other, or we are being persuaded to send money to someone we know is in deep trouble and we have very little money…
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We seem to be facing countless public enquiries these days as we live in a blame culture and everyone wants to blame everyone else. These enquiries are supposed to go to ‘the root of the matter’ but they seldom do. It may surprise you to know that the phrase, ‘the root of the matter’ was…
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I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. Job 19:20 The English idiom ‘escaped by the skin of one’s teeth’ is derived from this graphic expression in the book of Job. One of the main themes of the book is the problem of suffering. At the beginning of the book we find Job well…
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16. 18 No one, other than the proud himself, likes a proud person. God likes the proud least of all. One of the seven things that are an abomination to God is ‘a proud look,’ Proverbs 6. 17. This is because pride is…
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Whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matthew 5:39 Perhaps you, like many others, have little time for the Lord Jesus. Some deny He is the Son of God, saying He was deluded in many of His claims, especially when He said, ‘I am the way… no man cometh…
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