Thought For Today

We really do need to forgive. Why you might ask... Because Jesus says we must love one another. Now, remember, the Lord had a very difficult task. He had to wash the feet of the very man...

So today let you and I do something for someone else that will maybe cost us a little bit, to make another person’s burden lighter. Maybe just a smile or a wave. Maybe a touch, a phone call... what about an email that will change a person's life forever?

Our Lord Jesus knows how many hairs are on our head, He knows the colour of our eyes. I'm told there are approximately eight billion...

God uses ordinary people - How many times have we heard that? Have you heard of Nicky Gumbel or Demos Shakarian…

In the days of the sailing ships, there was a ship’s captain who was taking a family of missionaries to the South Sea Islands. Before they left the ship the captain begged them to reconsider.

You know without faith you cannot believe in the resurrection. What is faith? Well, Hebrews 11:1 says: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Augustine said: “Faith is to believe what you cannot see but the reward of that faith is to see what you believe.”

My favourite place in Israel is Peter’s Landing where, early in the morning, they had gone fishing. Remember they had given up... Don’t give up folks!

The ultimate gift that you can give is your very own life. There is not a greater gift that you can give anyone. Now Jesus calls you and me His friend. The Bible says in Proverbs 18:24, there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

How can we handle this burden that maybe we have brought on ourselves? The same way that Jesus did it - by watching and praying. This is not a time to go to sleep, it is not a time to slumber. This is our time to wait on the Lord and ask the Lord to take the burden off our shoulders.

We have got to start to exercise patience. Many years ago there was a wonderful old lady, a saint, who worked here at Shalom with us. When she was 70 years old, on her birthday...