Category: Thoughts

17 February 2014

MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION ?

I actually preached on the spiritual signs of aging last Sunday. The majority of our morning congregation is well over 60,  many in their 70’s and even 80’s. In some ways it was a fun sermon, in that we can all relate to the physical signs of aging, but may be blind or indifferent to the spiritual signs of aging. A very dear brother said […]

17 February 2014

MAKING 2014 A GREAT YEAR (11)

Life has been very busy for the last week or so, and thus there has not been any further blogs in this current series .I am so thankful that although I have some physical limitations, there are plenty of opportunities to serve the Lord. We now come to the next defect found in Lev.21.20 “Having a defect in the eye”. This is very different to the […]

3 February 2014

MAKING 2014 A GREAT YEAR (10

The next defect in Lev. 21.20 is that of being a Dwarf. This is the only time the word Dwarf is used in the whole of the Bible, I guess it is the only word that  was available to  be translated from Hebrew into English, but the picture in the Hebrew is not only someone who is short, but someone who is skinny and scrawny. […]

3 February 2014

MAKING 2014 A GREAT YEAR (9)

We now come to Lev. 21.20 and the next defect is a hunchback (NKJV) Crookback (KJV). Over the years we have seen many people bowed over  with a hunched back. We know these days it can be caused by a calcium deficiency  how it was caused in Moses day we really don’t know. Sadly. I have met many spiritual hunchbacks in my nearly 50 years of […]

29 January 2014

MAKING 2014 A GREAT YEAR (8)

Our next defect is found in Lev. 21.19  A broken hand. Again it does not say broken finger, the whole hand is broken. Have you ever had a broken finger, you could not tie your shoe laces, do up buttons etc. As a young teenager I was on my bike one day going down a hill, and I foolishly  pulled on the front brake, and […]