How Can I Examine My Obedience?
Can I examine my obedience to God? Since obedience is part of fearing the Lord, seeking the Lord and doing what’s right…and doing what’s right, seeking the Lord and fearing the Lord are the pre-requisites for getting the good God has intended for us, how can I examine myself to see if I’m obeying God? [...]
This is the Way, Walk In It
Wynne Lewis was coming to Auckland to visit his son. I hadn’t seen Wynne since the 2002 FCA International Convention I helped organize. We’d exchanged email fairly regularly since. It was only 500 and some km from Palmerston North, so I thought we’d go up for the weekend. Problem is: they don’t believe in straight [...]
I Want to Know Christ
“What are you passionate about?” Russell Williams asked on his first get-to-know-you visit to our almost empty home. We had been investing in the local economy and had a few appliances and a table to sit around. I hadn’t examined my motives for quite a while. It was all about obedience. God told us to [...]
Persevere
Finding a decent home to rent in Palmerston North had been a difficult task to accomplish. Most of the homes we had checked out were damp, moldy and very stinky. Finally we found one. Needless to say we had down graded from our huge four bedroom 4-level-split in Edmonton to a small three bedroom bungalow [...]
Call To Me
There are times in our walk of faith where you simply need to know what God has said to you and be obedient to his revealed voice. Often it is as simplistic as doing what Jesus – and the ones he sent – taught those who follow after him to do. If my life doesn’t [...]
Tell Me To Come
It wasn’t that we woke up one day and decided to move to the other side of the world. Before we were married God told us independently that we would be outside Canada. We didn’t know the where, when, why, or how but knew God would reveal it in time and we were to simply [...]
Fulfill Your Vows
Trevor’s back pain had gotten so bad that he was prescribed strong medication in the hopes of alleviating the discomfort. Still, one evening I had to rush him off to emergency. The pain was so bad that he was just about passing out. We waited about 2 hours just so that a nurse could give [...]
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