Category: Christian Faith

  • When Peter met Jesus..Encounters with Jesus

    When Peter met Jesus..Encounters with Jesus

    Greetings lovely readers, this the next post in our series about Encounters with Jesus written by Bruce Cooper at Reasoned Cases for Christ. I highly recommend Bruce’s site which is a rich resource for Christian Apologetics. The link is here https://bcooper.ca/about/ Peter – the Witness of ChristIn the New Testament, one of the most undeniable…

  • When “Sami” met Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    When “Sami” met Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    Reaching Jesus Through the Roof by David Duncan at David’s Daily Dose Greetings. My name is Samiya, but my friends call me Sami. I’m a carpenter from Capernaum. Would you believe I once worked with Jesus of Nazareth? It was back when he was a carpenter too. But then came my accident. One day, some other carpenter friends were…

  • Encounters with Jesus..

    Encounters with Jesus..

    I am excited to share some upcoming posts in this season of Lent about encounters people had with Jesus and how those encounters impacted them. The gospels are full of stories of people meeting Jesus…all sorts of different people..rich,poor,educated,religious leaders, foreigners,the sick and dying, the outcasts, prisoners,authority figures and ordinary folk…..people we can all identify…

  • The Doldrums….

    The Doldrums….

    Do you need encouragement today that there is always hope in God for change and to move forward. You will not be stuck forever. This post is on my heart again today for anyone who may be experiencing a feeling that they are stuck in the doldrums at the moment – you are experiencing a…

  • Take that first step..Friday Flashback

    Take that first step..Friday Flashback

    This week I have been posting about finding true fulfilment in God and this post came to mind. I had a picture during our worship time at church recently of a large lake.  It was a leisure lake and there were lots of people enjoying and having fun in the water.  Some people were running and jumping…

  • Open-Minded?

    Open-Minded?

    My Friday Flashback is a reminder to me to Be a Berean… “That very night the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the…

  • Lost and found…

    Lost and found…

    Recently, our little cat Leia went missing. It couldn’t have happened at a worst time. My mum, Pam had recently passed away and we were in the middle of preparing the funeral. At first we didn’t realise that she was missing. We were pre-occupied with other things, but then realisation dawned that we had not…