Be inspired at a new dimension of God´s plan! This week brings a guest speaker, NT Wright to our view. Be blessed!
Posts by Mark Beckenham
As I’ve reflected on how to keep fit this is what I have discovered – – calorie counting and exercise are important but the road to health starts a lot deeper. Real health begins in the soul, and if you want to be fit for life you have to begin by building your spiritual muscles.…
How do you keep fit? I heard the other day that someone from our church spent an hour on the living-room floor recovering because he had worked too hard in the gym! As I’ve reflected on how to keep fit this is what I have discovered – – calorie counting and exercise are important but…
Last week I got back from a week´s trip to Dubai. My first time there and it was quite an experience. Apart from meeting old friends and making new friends I also got to see and experience the Dubai desert for a few hours as a birthday present from my church. I wasn´t quite sure…
Ok, let´s just go ahead and confess that many of us are unapologetically busy during Advent, these four weeks leading up to Christmas—busy, but rarely frantic or pressured. Our hands are busy, but our hearts can at the same time experience the hush of Advent if we make sure we don´t forget what Christmas is…
Have you ever been stuck? Many years ago my brother and I were going fishing at a neighbours pond and had to cut across their field. There had been a lot of rain and there were some ruts from the other people going back to the pond. What we were not told was that the…
You might not know what you are missing until you find it again… Life goes on, day by day. Everything feels just fine and the way it should. What if you in fact are missing something, something very important? How do you know? You might not know until you finally find it again. It happened…
I have been reminded recently just how easy it is to make a difference in someone´s life. It really doesn´t demand too much from you, it´s all about your state of mind. If you want to make a difference you really can. Basically all you have to do is decide, preferably at the beginning of…
The future is an unknown country, full of promise and danger. But, equipped with the right map, compass and weather forecast, you can journey into it, confident that you’ll reach your goal. Many people that I meet are afraid of what the future might hold. This is something totally irrespective of age or background. This…
I sometimes enjoy thinking about just how life was in the past. One noticeable difference between then and the present age is the lack of electricity and machinery to help with everyday duties. How did people in the centuries before Thomas Edison find time to do anything? Doing laundry with washboards, plowing with oxen, hauling…