A poem about our times

What’s accepted as the norm hurts us

Immorality always does

Pornography is sold with bread, petrol and protractors

Children are lawfully helped to abort their babes on the quiet

Foolish parents meanwhile open wide their daughters’ bedrooms

Callous males play with heart strings to get their benefits on the side

We’re all cheapened

 

The ‘great’ night of television viewing ahead

Spying on the smutty lives in the house

Filling our minds with dark murders and sex crimes

Being lulled into a false sense of security about sexual deviancy and the occult

Laughing at rebelliousness and sacrilegiousness in cartoon

It seems they are giving us what we want

Is that what we’ve become – where’s honour, where’s self-respect?

 

The official line is that God’s word can’t be believed

In its place - a fanciful theory of Mr Nobody

No one made the complex universe

Life accidentally arose

And such a theory, from scientists, who often fail to predict today’s weather

Yet we swallow the line that they know how things happened billions of years ago – Huh!

Hope is killed

 

A strong and wonderful everlasting hope exists right under our noses

But dying, hopeless and depressed people are soothed by sporting heroes.

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Faith-based change

*The stunning picture at the top of the blog is from Mount Maunganui (across the harbour from Tauranga) looking toward the Kaimai ranges. It shows the pure genius of our Creator and Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus Christ, through whom and for whom all things were made (Colossians 1:16).

 

Jesus said, “if you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes”.  

                                                     Mark 9:23                                                                                                       

 Let us lovingly help you come to the faith which moves mountains. Contact us at churchofgodslove4@gmail.com to experience lasting faith-based change. 

How we ought to preach

In the last year I came across the lectures of Steve Lawson on Youtube on expository preaching. They have been a very useful training tool. I highly recommend them for anyone who is preaching, but has not had formal training, or for anyone desiring to start preaching.

The first lecture I recommend by Steve Lawson is called, 'How we ought to preach.'

If you want to learn how to preach the Psalms, I also recommend Steve Lawson's series on expository preaching of the Psalms.

May God bless you

David Kidd   www.churchofgodslove.com