Grace For Everyday People… With Everyday Issues

The Christian walk would be dull if it was just reading the Bible, praying and going to Church meetings.

As important as these things are our Christian walk is not these things. It’s more.

It’s finding the grace of God each day to follow Christ.

Following Christ in everyday life… it’s challenging.

Honouring God and being real and the same time…only possible if we sincerely desire that changing work of God’s spirit in our lives… not to bless us but to let the life of Christ be felt through us.

So often we don’t feel spiritual… but the Lord doesn’t work by our feelings or failings or successes… not my might, not by power but my spirit says the Lord.

Let’s keep the heart to be in need of His grace daily… that’s all. He’ll accomplish the rest.

  • Mark Saunders

Never Forget That If God Brought You To It, He Will See You Through It

You are secure in your relationship with God: Nothing can separate you from God’s love.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39

God is more powerful than anything in heaven or on earth. When you accept Jesus’ invitation to begin a relationship with God, you are secure in His love forever. There is nothing powerful enough to separate you from God’s love. Even when things are difficult or you feel far from God, it’s not because God stops loving you. The truth is that God will never stop loving you, no matter what you do.

How Do You Be A Leader?

My youngest son asked me, “Dad, how do you be a leader?” A deep question from a six year old boy.

By learning to help others was what I said in the moment.

It’s true, by learning to help others we give ourselves the opportunity he was asking about.

Learning – we learn from examples ahead of us. It implies we understand that from a place of submission we need to be equipped.

Helping others – leading for the good of the followers not the leader. Leadership is not “all about the leader” but the equipping of others.

As Christians perhaps we tend to err between two extremes – putting leaders on pedestals or being totally independent and unsubmitted to leadership.

From watching those ahead, being ready to lead is built from being “put through” many unglamorous, humbling situations that “strip away that man of the flesh” so he’s of less nuisance to God’s people.

Christian leadership could possibly be one of the toughest callings there is.

Let’s be faithful to pray for our leaders. We pray for what matters to us and good Christian leadership “really matters.”

  • Mark Saunders