Newspaper Article and Outreach update
18/12/2019 15:28
I was able to get out yesterday and today doing Christmas flyers in Loanhead. The frost on the ground today made the black tarmac white. Obviously it was a cold day, but the Lord gave me two divine appointments in the cold. I spoke with the first man for 10 minutes and the second for about 20. Please pray that God will work in these men's hearts. All told, I think I put out around 450 flyers in the last two days. Thank you for praying for our outreach.
Also, the Lord helped me to get my article written for the "Views from the Pews" column of our county paper, The Midlothian Advertiser. I'm priviliged to get to contribute bi-annually. The emphasis of my article is man's need to get back to the truth of God's Word. I'm limited to 350 words and really have to be succinct in what I say. Please pray for God's blessing upon this article. I'll put the text below. This article will not be printed until the end of January.
Don't Blow Your Life
With Christmas just behind us, you may have recently found yourself spending some time in an owner's manual. Perhaps you received a gift, and you assumed that you knew how to use it. That gift then humbled you to the point where you were ready to receive instruction from the manufacturer.
Misusing a manufactured product is dangerous and could cause severe damage. For example, there was a man in England who recently blew up his car by using too much air freshener while smoking. Warning labels on manufactured products protect the use of products and our lives.
Imagine when you opened that Christmas present, your family and friends told you that it was ok to use the gift contrary to the manufacturers guidelines. Imagine further that all of mankind in their pride swore that they felt it was ok and even honourable for you to do so. Would what they say change the consequances of misuse? ie. Would the spray filling the car not explode when the match was struck just because men said it would not do so?
The life given to us by our Creator came with an instruction manual, God's Holy Word. The Bible protects His creation and our lives. To ignore God's Word is dangerous because of the severe damage to our life that misuse incurs.
The majority of mankind, it seems, has agreed together in their pride that men can misuse their lives however they please. But misusing our life, no matter how popular, will only strike the match of sin which blows our lives.
Perhaps life has brought you to a point where you realise that you need God's manual. God's Word contains many promises for those who want to rebuild their life God's way. "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14) God's manual can help you not to blow your life.
Don't Blow Your Life
With Christmas just behind us, you may have recently found yourself spending some time in an owner's manual. Perhaps you received a gift, and you assumed that you knew how to use it. That gift then humbled you to the point where you were ready to receive instruction from the manufacturer.
Misusing a manufactured product is dangerous and could cause severe damage. For example, there was a man in England who recently blew up his car by using too much air freshener while smoking. Warning labels on manufactured products protect the use of products and our lives.
Imagine when you opened that Christmas present, your family and friends told you that it was ok to use the gift contrary to the manufacturers guidelines. Imagine further that all of mankind in their pride swore that they felt it was ok and even honourable for you to do so. Would what they say change the consequances of misuse? ie. Would the spray filling the car not explode when the match was struck just because men said it would not do so?
The life given to us by our Creator came with an instruction manual, God's Holy Word. The Bible protects His creation and our lives. To ignore God's Word is dangerous because of the severe damage to our life that misuse incurs.
The majority of mankind, it seems, has agreed together in their pride that men can misuse their lives however they please. But misusing our life, no matter how popular, will only strike the match of sin which blows our lives.
Perhaps life has brought you to a point where you realise that you need God's manual. God's Word contains many promises for those who want to rebuild their life God's way. "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14) God's manual can help you not to blow your life.