by Amanda Carstens | Jun 23, 2022 | Devotional
It was the custom in the village where D.L. Moody lived that when a church member died, the church bell would toll the number of years the person had lived. It would toll, for example, 70 times if the person died at 70. Sometimes the number of times it rang would be...
by Dr Charisse | Jun 20, 2022 | Devotional
When it comes to life, I would much rather have run the race well than have run the race fast. For if we understand life, we would realize that the fi rst one to cross the fi nish line is not necessarily the one who actually won the race. – Craig D. Lounsbrough The fi...
by Amanda Carstens | Jun 16, 2022 | Devotional
First story: A young man was terminally ill. He had never taken any notice of God or his commandments and lived for worldly pleasures. Someone visited him and told him about Jesus our Redeemer. He told the young man that Jesus had also borne hís sins on the cross,...
by Dr Charisse | Jun 15, 2022 | Devotional
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend. – Walt Disney Learning to lead well is having strength and giving that strength to others. Leaders don’t face others to make them stronger, but rather help them to be able to...
by Amanda Carstens | Jun 9, 2022 | Devotional
A very important question we must ask ourselves is: “If I die tonight and I get to heaven, what will I say, why I should be allowed to enter?” Alistair Begg delivered an interesting sermon (see photo) at Parkside entitled: “The Power and the Message...
by CLF | Jun 6, 2022 | Devotional
When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power. – Anonymous Before Nelson Mandela left prison, he said, “As I stand before the door to my freedom, I realise that if I do not leave my pain, anger and bitterness behind me, I will still be...
by Amanda Carstens | Jun 2, 2022 | Devotional
Rev. Richard Wurmbrand was a missionary in Romania. He and his family were some of the Christians who were subjected to the cruellest, most humiliating and inhuman torture imaginable. He himself was in jail for 14 years for being a Christian. He writes (shortened):...
by CLF | May 30, 2022 | Devotional
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. – Winston Churchill There are many of us who face the burdens by old problems and cares,...