Are You a Comic Sans Criminal?
I liked it so much I thought I’d post a link on my website! It only takes a moment, so please click on the link and have a look. Are You...
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Good-Bye Common Sense
This was emailed to me and I thought it was rather good! Obituary to Mr. C. Sense. Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend,...
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The Exercise of Faith
We are celebrating Christianity’s greatest event—Jesus Christs’ death and resurrection. However, it amazes me how so many Christians fail to live in the good of the completed work of Christ. Perhaps we fail to understand or believe in what Jesus actually accomplished?
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Peace
It seems that these days there is little peace in the world. The news is full of the ongoing strife that exists between one country and another and one ethnic group against the other. There is also the tragedy of recent earthquakes and Tsunamis that have caused profound suffering and need. Looking at life more locally here in the UK, murder and crime happen with an increasing frequency and the recession continues to take its toll on all our finances. Then we are reminded of our frailties as diseases like cancer continue to ravage homes indiscriminately and illnesses once thought eradicated such as rickets and tuberculosis appear with new vigour. There’s not enough time to talk about the break-up of families and marriages and the increasing strife between people.
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3 Types
Holidays are good. We all enjoy the thought of no responsibility or commitments for a period of time. It is great to wake up in the morning and not have to do anything! However, too much time off can cause us to develop idle habits and the danger is that inevitably you have to “get back in the saddle” at some point. Usually the longer you leave it the harder it becomes.
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Quality Time
Kronos (great sounding word!) is a Greek word referring to the sequential passing of time. We understand time as being linear. We are born at one point and die at another. The two points between these dates are linear. However, the greeks had another word for time, ‘Kairos’. Kairos refers to time, but in a very different way. It has to do with the quality of time. In the New Testament Kairos represents, ‘the appointed time in the purpose of God’.
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Simon Smailus is the Pastor of Marsh Lane Pentecostal Church in West Bromwich, England. He's spent many years on the mission field and believes Jesus Christ is the only hope in transforming our communities