Archive for August, 2010

God has given us so much, but what do we give back to Him? God wants us to give Him our life so that He can use us to spread His message of love and forgiveness throughout this world. But do you wonder what’s in it for us, if we give our lives to God? [...]

We Are The Reason As little children We would dream of christmas morn And all the gifts and toys We knew we’d find But we never realized A baby born one blessed night Gave us the greatest gift of our lives Chorus And we were the reason That he gave his life We were the [...]

Colossians 1:15-20 (The Message) We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose [...]

Loving you means I’m happy. It means I’m with the person I want to spend the rest of my life with.    Loving you means I am loved by the person I care most about. It means I’m satisfied and excited about life. It means I feel complete.    I hope you’re as happy as I am [...]

Presence (My Heart’s Desire) by Newsboys I lift up my voice to The King, The King of glory I hold out my hands to The One who is worthy I long for Your presence I long, Lord, I need Your touch CHORUS: come, oh Lord, and fill up my life with the light of Your [...]

Matthew 10: 32-33 (The Message) Stand up for me against world opinion and I’ll stand up for you before my Father in heaven. If you turn tail and run, do you think I’ll cover for you? If you’re asked by someone if you are a Christian, do you tell them you are, or do you [...]

Avoidance

Posted: August 25, 2010 in life, religion
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Have you ever spent your time trying to avoid someone or something? If you’re anything like me, you’ll probably have found the more you try to avoid something, the more you “bumped” into it! Should that tell us something?! Maybe we shouldn’t try to avoid the things we don’t want to face. After all, all that does [...]

I came home from hospital visiting on Saturday afternoon to find my hubby watching Come Dine With Me on the tv. Nothing particularly noteworthy in that I hear you say. However hubby’s next statement, got my attention…he told me that the one guy in the programme was a Salvation Army person but that he was [...]

Yesterday (Sunday) I went to our Morning service at Bellshill Salvation Army, for the first time in about 10 months! Then after that I headed to Callander with our band to take part on two Song of Praise events there. During our morning service we had one youngster enrolled as a Junior Soldier and another [...]

Intention

Posted: August 22, 2010 in life, religion
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How many times have you heard someone say they did it “with the best of intentions”? Is it good enough just to do things with the “best of intentions” or should we in fact just make sure we’re doing the right thing? First and foremost, I’d say we must always make sure we are doing [...]