“Be sober minded, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith…” 1Peter 5:8-9 Welcome back to the series on the deceitfulness of sin and how to guard against it. You can find the first post here, and the second one here… Continue reading Be Watchful, Sober-Minded – Part 3
Category: Jesus
The Deceitfulness of Sin – Part 1
Image: Minister's Island, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, taken with i-Phone 14 Pro."Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour." 1 Peter 5:8 Your adversary….. prowls around….seeking someone to devour. As I took the above picture, these words hammered through my mind like sharp staccato notes.… Continue reading The Deceitfulness of Sin – Part 1
Holy Week – Palm Sunday
"Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." Zech. 9:9 Palm Sunday. The Sunday before the darkest day in history. Jesus of Nazareth spent three years teaching his disciples, preaching the gospel of repentance, and performing… Continue reading Holy Week – Palm Sunday
Press On: Without Looking Back
“This one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Jesus Christ.” Phil. 3:13-14 No one thought she would make it. Yet there she was on the podium with three other gymnasts from… Continue reading Press On: Without Looking Back
The Glorious and Dreadful Good News
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” - Francis Bacon “And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins;” Luke 3.3 My favourite photographs are black and white. With cheerful and distracting colours removed, the eyes are able… Continue reading The Glorious and Dreadful Good News
