Forgetfulness!

Another Problem?

This condition is not limited to older folks, many forty year olds can get onset dementia or serious bouts of forgetting or loosing concentration so we should not be too quick to Judge!

But it is a problem as you get older forgetting time is a real problem, if not names of loved ones or just things that need doing?

Since the COVID-19 situation, many of us have taken a knock and it has been a slow progress to get back to something of a normal life again but we will hopefully if this winter is not as bad as the past two?

Job 8:13, Psalm 9:17, Proverbs 3:1, Luke 9:62, Philippians 3:13, Hebrews 6:1-2.

The Easter Message…

Does not Change!

Like Christmas Easter is a series of events that fulfill the prophetic of the Old Testament and the difference is that it is the finale of Jesus victory over death and the grave for all of us who believe in these events.

The atonement frees us from our failure, if we ask His forgiveness for those mistakes and God will never mention them again to us, even on the Day of Judgement!

Jesus had to return home, so that we could be given the comforter, the Holy Spirit that is our help in our New Lives the ever new now! But He has another role and that of working through us to convict the world of their sin and their need of salvation in Jesus!

Wither we are dogmatic or not, we cannot escape the facts of the cross, Jesus resurrection, his Ascension and promised return?

John 16:7-9, Jude 1:15, Revelation 6:9-10.

U.S. and European Revenue!

‘Out of a European War?

Us oldies will face more problems in the months to come with inflation, rising utility bills, even fuel prices hiking to the cover of the Ukrainian situation over that of failed policies in the U.K. and that of Joe Biden who is lost when it comes to economics!

Millions may flood into Europe and eventually the North-American continent and with it a strain on resources that will make our lot worse? COVID-19 has not gone away with strain No:46 a worrying factor for 2023 and the possibility of a nuclear exchange will not help either!

Pressure on leadership and mid terms could change things for the better, but we have to see sometimes what we do not fully understand maybe the will of God to do his bidding and men like many leaders in the past in their arrogance where struck down!

2 Samuel 17:2, Psalm 6:2, Ezekiel 16:30, Joel 3:10, Acts 12:23, 1 Corinthians 1:27,

Freshness!

A New start for 2022?

Getting old does not mean decay, we can ask God to make us fresh again, like the smell of baked bread!

We are a force in Ekklesia to still be reckoned with, many talents and gifts, much advice and teaching to pass on to the young and not so and older folks too!

We have experience, we have gone through tough time, pit falls, persecution, loss, pain, love, marriage, divorce, troubled minds, fear, anger, and many more related matters that you too have had to deal with?

God is always with us, we maybe not always with Him but His love through Jesus encompasses our faith!

Leviticus 24:8, Lamentations 5:21, 1 Corinthians 5:7, Titus 3:5.

The Christmas Message!

The truth of Jesus birth is getting shut Out?

Despite this pandemic, this year Jesus is not in the picture of Christmas by a political world that wants Him removed!

But despite the will of humanity He will remain since He is the only Savior of the world and we should take time to consider Him over the next few days as we mark the holidays?

Isaiah 9:6, 53:1-5, Luke 2:7, 12, John 3:16-17, Acts 4:12, 1 Timothy 3:16.

Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year!

‘Young at Heart?

Just because our bodies fail, our minds stay Young!

One is getting on and was a tot of the sixties and a youth of the 1970’s, but I still like modern music and what young people have to say!

Many teenagers and young adults today live in a society of hurt and loneliness, even the Internet is a burden to them because of grooming and much dishonesty and suicide is always there with them?

We are told we live in an age of liberation and many Church people who are in same sex relationships can say anything, since they refuse to deal with peoples problems and push them out into any empty social services!

But God-Jesus, when we find Him we find re-assurances and true peace, and we have a responsibility to talk to the young and encourage them, since they are longing for us to help them!

Psalm 77:9, 135:14, Isaiah 14:1, Lamentations 3:32, Matthew 9:36, 15:32, Luke 10:33, Hebrews 10:34.

Plenty to keep Doing?

Planning beyond Christmas!

When one has been a believer a long time the years seem to get shorter, when we are keeping active and we learn that the calendar of Church life has to be well planned for the next festival that may meet our label?

Already we should be thinking about Valentines and even Easter, if not many different things in between! Some will have already prepared their sermons for the year and some that can be adapted to meet the needs as with this ongoing COVID-19/Omicron pandemic situation?

But what ever or wherever God has us, it is valuable to all around us, for no one knows who God is going to save or remove from around us!

Acts 4:29, 10:33, 15:11, Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 4:1-2, Philippians 1:19-23, 1 Timothy 3:16.

Christmas is Coming!

Helping in decorating and the Crib Display?

Not all fellowships are the same, some don’t even mark the season in a traditional way, but probably secretly do it at home?

Older believers still have a place to help clean and decorate, they may place emphasis on the crib and the essential message of the season that, ‘Jesus was born of the Virgin!

We may have the tech and the interactive Church, something to consider for the future too when we are older and the newer whatever will come along?

2 Corinthians 7:3, Ephesians 2:22, Hebrews 4:4, 2 Peter 1:19.

Advise and Encourage!

‘The world will knock us?

Many young people in leadership today are getting knocked, they have bright ideas and they are wonderful, but the world is now more occupied by the bright lights of the Internet and the virtual world of none reality!

We who are older in Church work have learned many of the pit falls and the ways of Satan, so we have much to offer in advice and encouragement, even those who are just over ten years younger than us need it that help too?

We are all one wonderful family, all ages and we all have one Father who loves us and a son who has brought us back to fellowship and friendship with God!

Ruth 1:16-17, 1 Samuel 18:1-4, Psalm 55:12-13, Daniel 2:49, Luke 10:38-42, Acts 15:31, Romans 8:37, 2 Corinthians 6:15, Philemon 1:7, 20, Hebrews 13:22, James 4:4.

Forgetting?

‘Our Minds!

This is one of many issues that we will face as we get older and it can be very hard on our loved ones, children and friends?

We think we are still speaking to them, but they only hear confused rubbish!

On the great day of Pentecost many heard the Disciples of Jesus speaking what they assumed that they were drunk, but others who had faith heard them in their own language and were amazed that these Galileans were able to do this!

God will overrule our lives, even in dementia and with the right help sought something can be recovered, if not healed!

Patience, prayer and tolerating will help, not so much an old peoples home and medications to the eyeballs?

Acts 2:13-15, Romans 15:15, 1 Corinthians 13:7, Ephesians 5:18, 1 Thessalonians 5:5-8.