I always feel some reluctance when writing about this issue – the issue of suffering and pain. Selwyn, opens today’s study with these words: “We turn now in the days that lead up to Good Friday and Easter to focus on another aspect of the way has identified with our humanity – the aspect of [...]
In today’s study, Selwyn looks at two examples of how Jesus was unjustly criticised. In a sense, those who are standing on flawed value system as their basis for making judgments – tend to habitually make harsh and unfair decisions. If, I can turn around Selwyn’s theme – I think there is some truth in the statement that [...]
I really like these verses taken from those set, for reading and meditation,1 Peter 2:11-12, 21-25, NLT: “Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners (of this world)” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they [...]
[It's nineteen years today, since I became a Christian - it was in a motel room in Brisbane; when at approximately 9.30 pm at night - I heard a voice, spoken, about half a metre behind me, say: "I am your God, who loves you." Exactly one week before that day, I went to a [...]
Selwyn opens today’s study, with these words: “We continue pondering the question: does Jesus know how we feel when we are hurt by cruel and unkind criticism?” He answers his question, as follows: “The Christian world-view (as Selwyn, sees it), is to face and acknowledge your feelings and recognise they are there. It is not a [...]
Selwyn, in today’s study, talk s about coping with cruel and unjust criticism; and, briefly covers his experience with constructive and destructive criticism. I liked his conclusion:” … the way I evaluate a situation determines my feelings, not necessarily the event itself – hence I have a responsibility to evaluate things correctly and put them [...]
If you were God …
Selwyn continues to look at the issue of suffering and pain. A lot of our suffering is bought upon ourselves by our expressions of freedom – especially, our freedom to act independently of God’s will. In these days, the use of words, like ‘free will’, is of little value because these words now bring with them [...]
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