The end is not nigh
Tsunamis, snowstorms, earthquakes — is God withdrawing His restraining hand and allowing the earth to be engulfed in chaos? There are a couple of considerations here: God has removed restraint upon people, and the end […]
Month: February 2010
Hellyer Picnic
Photos taken by Andrea Irvine. Woodhaugh Gardens, Dunedin.
I don’t geddit
I am finding my ‘verse of the week’ (2 Peter 3:9) to be difficult to memorize because its implications distract me from trying to rote-learn it. If God doesn’t wish for anyone to perish but […]
Weeding vs Roundup
I have some weedkiller in my garden shed. I don’t like using the stuff but we have ivy and blackberry growing wild which are almost impossible to control aside from a targeted spray with Roundup. […]
Glimpsing God
My memory verse for this week is Exodus 34:6 in which God reveals Himself to Moses. The other day I was reading Mark 6:48-50 (Jesus walking on water) and the ESV Study Bible note for […]
A righteous sinner
I read something encouraging and thought-provoking this morning written by Sinclair Ferguson in his book ‘In Christ Alone‘: Christ died our death, and now in His resurrection He continues to wear our nature forever, and […]
Hope in the Lord from this time forth
Recently I have been considering Psalm 131 and the ideal of having a quiet and calm soul in God’s presence. This has been on my mind as I observe within myself how fragmented and distracted […]
Prayerlessness and social media
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. John Piper 2:02 PM Oct 20th, 2009 My response to […]
A weaned child
Do you ever miss the irresponsibility of childhood? When your needs were met by parents and you just got on with living rather than worrying. In my previous post I cited Psalm 131 as an […]
