At the start of this year, I shared with you my aims for this year (Welcome to 2012) - not my new year resolutions, but what I aim to achieve this year. So now that January is over I thought it time to review how I’m getting on (or not!) with my aims, so here goes: [...]
Archive for the ‘blogging’ Category
My Aims 2012 – January Review
Posted: February 1, 2012 in blogging, family, friendship, Health, holiday, life, love, music, New Year, pray, prayer, religion, tennis, Travel, workTags: bible, Christianity, Classroom, Eating, exercise, God, Health, holiday, January, new year, New Year Resolution, Weight loss
Word Association #4
Posted: January 28, 2012 in bible, blogging, car, children, church, film, Food, love, motoring, news, religion, school, Scotland, tennis, words, workTags: answers, Browser Based, Games, Health, mind, Video Games, Word Association, Word Games
It’s Saturday again, so I’d like to give you another word association challenge today. So as before, I’m going to throw some words at you and I want you to note down the first word that comes into your mind when you read each word. Here goes… 1. Chocolate 2. Bible 3. Interview 4. Diet [...]
Waiting
Posted: January 23, 2012 in blogging, friendship, life, love, music, religionTags: Christian, Christianity, Christianity for Seekers, Evangelism, God, Lord, patience, Religion & Spirituality, U2
He’s still waiting…for you to turn to Him He’s still waiting…for you to give your life to Him He’s still waiting…for you to knee down before Him He’s still waiting…for you to say you love Him He’s still waiting…for you to say “Yes” to Him In my blog posts last week I spoke about how [...]
It’s All About…Patience!
Posted: January 22, 2012 in blogging, dementia, family, friendship, Health, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religionTags: Conditions and Diseases, family, Garden, God, Health, home, Jesus, patience, patient, prayer, vascular dementia
Have you noticed the common theme of my blog posts this last week? They were all about patience… Patience is something some of us have and many of us strive to obtain. It’s something we all need at times, but many of us fail to use when we need it. Personally patience has always been [...]
Be Cheerful, Always!
Posted: January 12, 2012 in bible, blogging, family, friendship, life, love, music, prayer, religionTags: Christ Jesus, Christian, Christianity, First Epistle to the Thessalonians, God, Jesus, Matter, Religion & Spirituality, The Way (The Illustrated Edition of the Living Bible)
Today I’m continuing to looking at how, as Christians, we should live our lives. Once again using words from the bible for guidance. The text for today is from 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (The Message): Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong [...]
Get Along, Always!
Posted: January 11, 2012 in bible, blogging, church, family, friendship, Health, life, love, music, prayer, religionTags: Christ, Christian, Christianity, encourage, First Epistle to the Thessalonians, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John Gowans, Religion and Spirituality, support
Today I want to continue looking at how, as Christians, we should live our lives, using words from the bible for guidance. The text I want to use today is from 1 Thessalonians 5:13-15 (The Message): Get along among yourselves, each of you doing your part. Our counsel is that you warn the freeloaders to get [...]
Rededication
Posted: January 4, 2012 in bible, blogging, friendship, life, love, music, pray, prayer, religionTags: brian doerksen, Christianity, Denominations, fire, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Lord, philippians, prayer, Religion & Spirituality
Yesterday in A New Spiritual Start I asked you at the start of this new year, to consider refocusing your spiritual life. But how do we go about refocusing our life on God? Refiner’s Fire Purify my heart Let me be as gold and precious silver Purify my heart Let me be as gold, [...]
A New Spiritual Start
Posted: January 3, 2012 in blogging, cross, friendship, life, love, music, religion, TravelTags: brian doerksen, Calendar year, Christ, Christian, Christianity, Denominations, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Quality of life, Religion & Spirituality, Religion and Spirituality
A couple of days ago, in Welcome to 2012, I listed my aims for 2012, some related to my physical wellbeing, others to my spiritual well-being. As this is a new calendar year, I’d urge you to not only refocus your aims for your life, but also to refocus your spiritual life. Whether that means [...]