EASTER!

The essential Message?

This year we get only one opportunity in this blog to cover the matter of Easter and the importance to share what God has done for us!

There may be many other aspects of this time, eggs, bunnies, flowers and much for the young and young at heart to enjoy, but without a knowledge of Jesus this is all empty nonsense?

As we grow older in the faith their is a time to reflect and tell others of the importance in knowing Jesus, who will save us from his coming wrath on humanity for the disobedience?

One recently read that some councils in middle-England were seeking to stop street preaching because people found it offensive and hurtful, on Judgement day everything that we have done will be exposed!

Amos 5:4, Romans 8:24, 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:26-27, Jude 1:6-7.

Maintaining Ones Honesty?

Keeping to the narrow Way!

Life is tough for all humans wither they are saved or lost, but as believers in the death and resurrection of Jesus our Lord, we need to maintain an impression on others, not just our fellowship, but also the world that is always watching us and testing us to see if we will fall?

Our conduct is essential as we get older, memory loss can cause us to swear, but that should not always be put on the soul but rather the brain degrading and the onset of many illnesses effecting the mind!

Otherwise we have a responsibility to interact with people every day and maybe night time to so that we can advise and share Jesus and what He has, is and will do for us?

Psalm 25:6-10, Romans 3:21-31, James 3:14.

What you can do at 90!

Survive the lions Den?

Daniel went through a lost from the jealousy of the Persians and survived, but at ninety years old, after seventy years in the Babylonian court he was sent to the lions and of course God saved him because of his faith!

Not many today at sixty survive what the world can throw at us and most who claim a faith will run for the hills when it comes to a stance that might get them hurt?

Not Daniel he was tough, learning from experience that God would deliver him, so how are we going to apply what we have learned in this little study today?

Daniel 6:1-24, Nahum 2:11, Matthew 24:15, Luke 12:4, 1 Peter 3:14.

Happy New Year 2025?

Closer to Eternity!

No matter how old we are when we come to faith we still have much to give to those younger than us and even older too, since we can advise many in the way to go, to live, to help others?

God does not give up on old people, since there are so many mentioned in the Holy Bible, who are seen as being wise and so their advice and views were sought after!

But all who have rejected the wisdom of the elderly came to destruction, proving that they were not wise in the first place and thought they could rule, be a king or other, when they misjudged their circumstances and ability?

Today we find many people have cheated their way into jobs that they cannot do and that is why both economies and systems are in disarray and nations are failing at the basics in business, religion and hope!

2 Samuel 17:4, 1 Kings 1:12, Proverbs 12:15, 19:20, John 3:3, Acts 5:39, Hebrews 9:26-27.

Christmas Past?

What happens as we Age!

Many of us do fall into the false trap of believing the past was better in some ways than it is now, we become nostalgic and forget the bad bits of yesteryear?

Jesus warns us not to look back, since we should be looking ahead for His return and also for Heaven our Eternal home, were there will be no more suffering or tears!

We have a mission for Christmas and Easter and that is if we can welcome the stranger in the hope that more souls will be won for the Kingdom, we can encourage young people and adults about many areas of life and what not to do and son on?

Matthew 25:38-43, Luke 9:62, Hebrews 11:31, Revelation 7:17, 21:4, Isaiah 25:8.

Preparing for Christmas?

Try not to look back, but rather Forward!

When we get old it is natural to tend to look back, but somethings were better then, we still had to out come of sin, arguments and rows apart from the meal and the tinsel?

Some of us were saved and others not, that is why we are told in the word of God not to look back but forward for His return and in dealing with the problems that may still persist or the good things that we can bring or keep going!

Luke 9:62, Acts 13:23, 1 Corinthians 9:10, 1 Timothy 2:13-14.

Good always overcomes Evil!

Halloween, Guy Fawkes and Remembering the Fallen?

Each of these festivals reveal and element of darkness, but that God has the victory over all of them!

Halloween is the expression of Satanic evil, Guy Fawkes on 17th Century Bin-Laden of English history and the 11/11th to mark all who died to overcome in some cases men who wanted their image to be worshiped and their ideas excepted by the masses!

They all failed and we live in a free world, or do we, human idealism wants us to think that but the truth is we live in a world stained by inherited sin and that faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus will save us from Eternal Damnation and help us to walk with Him!

Daniel 3:3-6, Matthew 16:18, John 3:3, 16-21, Romans 3:22-23, Hebrews 9:26-17, 10:10, 12, 26, 1 John 5:4-5, Revelation 3:20, 7:17.

Abused?

Nursing Homes!

Many of us will end up in some kind of care in our old age and with it will come abuse from low paid staff or family members that no longer want to cope with us?

Abuse today world-wide for the ill, old and sick is wide spread and sad, but many of us need to be preparing with keeping ourselves active physically if not more so mentally, so that we don’t loose all of our faculties!

Fellowship and asking for pastoral advice now is a wise thing to do, in relation to relatives and what they want, may not be what we want and if we end up in care that fellow believers will visit on a regular basis and check up on us with medical and family approval?

Job 10:12, 21:21, Luke 10:34-35, Philippians 4:10, 1 Timothy 3:5.

Forgetful!

Can be a Problem?

We tend to start memory loss from the age of forty-five, but after sixty it can be an issue and in the light of the U.S. President Biden it is beyond the pale!

Despite the many set backs with loss, when in an none pressured situation we can become an encyclopedia of knowledge and be invaluable to any fellowship and our fellow believers from the Holy Bible to life experience?

So old folks in the Ekklesia must not be written off, in the world being gracious and not insulting because of memory loss is not a right way forward!

Psalm 19:7, Matthew 24:14, 1 Corinthians 2:1, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 1 Timothy 6:13, 1 John 5:11.

Prayer is a Key?

In old age Ministry!

Many believers think that when we get beyond a certain point in old age that is it, but not so depending on our mental health, prayer becomes and essential ministry and there is plenty in the world to pray for, as well as family, home and Church?

One of the main problems now is that many don’t actually bother to pray on a regular basis, but with infirmity that will change, also loss of sight prayer can become a real relief and that is the way God may work with us for our later years before going home to Glory!

Nehemiah 1:6, 11, Job 16:17, Psalm 54:2, Romans 10:1, Colossians 4:2, James 5:13, 1 Peter 3:12.