Christ Church Kenilworth 8am News April 2018

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News April 2018

An Easter Refrain The words of Andre Frieselaar’s sermon on 4 March are still in my heart—with God, all things are possible—and this as a response to Jesus’ raising from death to life, His beloved friend Lazarus; and against all human odds at that. It seems an appropriate theme for this Easter editorial and I want to try and trace the notion across some of the breadth of Scripture.

The first time we find the theme: Is anything too hard for God in Scripture, happens in Genesis 18:14 when God promises the ancient Abraham and Sarah that they will have a child.

Then I noticed a slightly different expression of the same idea but in Jeremiah 32:17: Is there anything You can’t do? (Message).

Not to be outdone by Hebrew Scripture, we find very similar words in the New Testament as the angel Gabriel promises Mary, a VIRGIN, a son; this accompanied by the words, Nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:38).

How can this great theme of God doing the most impossible thing ever—when He raised Jesus from the dead on that first Easter day—play out in our lives here at Christ Church Kenilworth at this 2018 Eastertide?

I’d like to offer a few suggestions which may resonate with where we might find ourselves just now… * In John 20:19 we read of Jesus’ appearance to His disciples in Jerusalem on the first evening of Easter.

The disciples were behind locked doors for ‘fear of the Jews’. Later in the text (vs 26) and now eight days later, Jesus once again comes to them through ‘locked doors’.

Could it be that two thousand years later, we have ‘locked doors’ in our lives and like the disciples, they are more often than not locked doors of fear or fears ?

Since we have returned to Cape Town, and in catching up with old friends, I have become so aware of the many sadnesses and fears that people are facing...the

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fear for a young adult with addiction issues; the fears for a grandchild with an intractable illness; the fears for a spouse suffering from serious depression; the fears arising from the loss of an entire family to a cult… And of course the sadness so evident in the March edition of the 8 O’ Clock News, at the early and devastating loss of a man at the zenith of his educational career… * BUT in all this stuff which IS so real Jesus is more real; He is alive; He comes through locked doors; He IS amongst us and the one word which He says and keeps on saying IN our fear and in our sadness is ‘PEACE’ (John 20:19b, 21). * And to return to our theme: ‘With God, all things are possible’:

Come Out! Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus, A friend, dead, buried three days, and He demanded “Take the stone away!”

But Martha, sister of the dead, Turned in alarm to her friend: “No, You can’t do that. He can’t come out.

He’s been in there too long. He stinks!”

“You can’t find a new life.

You’ve been dead too long.

Don’t think you can change now” The old message repeats itself To those life-giving parts of us That have died and gone to stinking, And need to be raised up: Many are the names of the dead in ourselves, Many are the risings that need to take place.

Jesus stands at the tomb and calls them out, Ignoring the loud protest of our inner voice That cries: “ You can’t call that back to life!”

This Easter, welcome the inner Lazarus, Let the stone unseal the stinking.

Let the Risen Voice resurrect our deadness And give it an entrance into light Excerpts from Out of the Ordinary by Joyce Rupp

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- Jessica McCarter

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to get various It was very interesting interviewing Jane. I was met at schools the door by Jane and her three dogs, two of whom are involved in blind. On entering the lounge I met more members of donating Jane’s family, the feline ones. Eventually all six of them Easter passed through the area and settled around Jane. All eggs which her pets have interesting stories behind how they came are then to live in such a loving, caring environment. She says distributed she even runs ‘chicken day care’. During the day to various various chickens come into her garden and end up places sitting alongside the cats in the sun on her driveway. where So it isn’t surprising that Jane has become the there are convener of the TLC group. She enjoys caring for elderly animals and people, and being involved in the people or children. For relaxation she enjoys knitting community. and reading, and going to the theatre. Somewhere Jane began life in Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies, along the line she fits in some gardening. Her mom where she was born to British parents. When she was ran a nursery so it must be in the genes. six the family returned briefly to England, and then Jane has been part of Christ Church for the past five came to South Africa to settle. Until she came to Cape years. Already a Christian, but feeling unsettled Town over 20 years ago, Jane lived in Johannesburg. where she was and wanting to find a new place to She has four children and seven grandchildren. Her worship, she was invited to an Alpha course by Jean older son lives with his wife and family in Dubai, her Knaggs, whom she knew from Bergvliet Lions Club. one daughter lives with her husband and family in She loved being part of Alpha, made new friends, felt Mauritius, her other daughter is married to a Baptist very much at home at CCK and decided this was the minister and lives in Cape Town. Her younger son is place for her. Becoming involved in the Beulah group still at home with Jane. which meets in the home of Wendy Willcox has If it’s true that if you want something done you should become a very important part of her Christian life, ask a busy person, then Jane certainly fits that especially as a support group. description. She runs her own accounting practice, This is beginning to sound like an advert for Alpha working from home, but also going out to fulfil various and Beulah! contracts. On top of this she is part of Bergvliet Lions As convenor of TLC Jane will have a variety of things Club and will be the treasurer for the year ahead. to deal with. She will have to encourage people to She’s involved in various Lions projects, one of which is cook meals for the freezer, maintain a list of people who are available to TWO DONKEYS were walking in Jerusalem when one said to the other, cook and take a meal to someone who needs it ‘Just yesterday … I was here carrying Jesus and the people were that day, and keep a list singing and shouting and throwing their clothes down for me to walk of people who are willing to donate flowers on and today they don’t even recognise me…’ The other donkey and take them to replies, ‘That’s how it is my friend, without Jesus you’re nothing. …’ someone who needs to know that they are being thought of and cared for.

Jim and I were very grateful recipients of numerous frozen meals when I had a knee replacement a year ago.

I know what this ministry meant for us, and for many others over the years here at CCK. Jane, may you be richly blessed as you serve in this way. May you know much fulfilment in the months ahead.

Jane Renaud

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Rooted in a Troubled Past Greg and Debbie’s story is rooted deeply in South Africa’s troubled past.

Greg was born in 1949 and lived in his family home in Waterkant Street in Green Point until the family was removed under the Group Areas Act in 1964. The Green Point years were happy ones. Greg’s father was a carpenter by trade and his mother a school teacher who also gave piano lessons. Greg’s paternal grandfather was German and his maternal grandfather was a white Afrikaans-speaking man. Greg’s cousins lived next door and they were classified as white while Greg’s family were classified as so-called coloured persons.

Greg developed a great love of music during those years and progressed to grade 6 on the piano taught by his musically talented mother.

He also received lessons from Sylvia Bosch, a well known professional musician of the time.

Greg was still at Trafalgar High School in Zonnebloem at the time of the forced removals and his family were offered houses either in the newly-created suburbs of Manenburg or Heideveld by the government. They were compelled to accept a nominal amount for their home. Traumatised, Greg’s parents elected not to accept either of the Manenberg or Heideveld options and chose to move their shattered lives into a wooden Wendy House on a property in Belgravia.

During the forced removal Greg’s mothers’ precious piano was damaged beyond repair by lethargic and uncaring removal contractors employed by Community Development, an event that initially left him very bitter.

Greg, not distracted, worked hard and matriculated in 1968 and was able to find employment for two years with a firm of Chartered Accountants in Cape Town, Sandler Frank. He was then able to scrape together enough funding, with the assistance of family, to go to UWC where he graduated with a B.Com degree four years later. His father died when he was 29. He married his first wife Cheryl, became employed as an accountant by Musica and they had three children.

Greg moved out to Kuils River with his young family and became politically active in the UDF in the 1980s.

As political temperatures rose during the ensuing years and the last apartheid government began to disintegrate, Greg became fearful for his and his family’s safety and he moved to New Zealand intending to set up home and relocate his family there.

He had a tough time and missed family desperately, abandoned his plans to emigrate and returned to South Africa after 18 months.

He returned to work for Musica where he rose to become the group accountant and then Financial Director and added the qualification of CTA to his achievements. He has had a successful career as an accountant and has been involved in many business ventures, helping family members to get started in life.

Debbie grew up in Lansdowne, regarded as a well-todo area. Her mother was from the island of St Helena.

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Both her father and her mother worked for Cape & Transvaal Printers initially and then relocated to Tej, the cloth manufacturer, where as family lore had it, they ‘died for a living’. She describes her parents as soft, gentle people and her school years at Livingstone High as ‘comfortable’. She became a gymnast of some ability. She married and in due course had two children and became an interior decorator. Her marriage sadly did not last but three years after it had ended she counts herself lucky enough to have found the distinguished silver-haired Greg. After getting married Greg and Debbie had a child of their own. Today they preside over a family of six children. Debbie is a legendary cook and is never happier than seeing her whole family including nine grandchildren seated around her table enjoying the fruits of her labours in the kitchen Debbie grew up in a Christian home and attended All Saints Church in Lansdowne from an early age. Greg on the other hand is candid in saying that while he has had many arguments with the Lord over the years he is now at peace with and feels blessed by God. Both of them have experienced a feeling of coming home at Christ Church.

- Gill and Henry Stubbings

Faith is the First Step Faith is the first step to understanding; understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

St Augustine [354-430]

Corrie ten Boom: Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.

Learn to Persevere Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

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Paddy O’ Leary (21/4) The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness’ Jeremiah 31:3

keep up with the 8 am-ers.

I read with sadness that Rose had died in February. Den and I had such happy times with her and Ken when we helped them with the catering for the church occasions—some happy and some sad. We had good laughs together. We also discovered that before Ken married Rose he had been engaged to the daughter of a neighbour in the times when as a schoolgirl we lived in Pinelands. Her sister and I were great buddies and we used to peep at him courting Betty as all teenage girls did!!

I also remember that when we were sympathising with Rose after Ken died that she told us what they had said in one of their last conversations and thinking it was rather ‘funny naughty’ but typical of their relationship—but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was!!

We have one of Rose''s paintings hanging in our house here in New Zealand. It is of proteas in a vase (see photograph below) and I fell in love with it when it was on display at an Arts weekend at Christ Church. Rose said that it was not for sale and then months later she phoned me to say that she had thought about it and she wanted me to buy it— her feeling was that she should not hang on to material things. She then delighted to tell folk that one of her paintings was in New Zealand!

With love from us both - Jill & Dennis Reiche

Lizzy the koala was taken to a wildlife hospital in an Australian zoo, with her son holding on to her side.

Poor Lizzy had been hit by a car. Her little boy, Phantom, only 6-months-old, was luckily unharmed and screamed when they tried to remove him from his mother.

Lizzy suffered a collapsed lung that required emergency surgery. Phantom continued to hold on and would not leave her even during the operation.

How to Find Jesus Lizzy survived the surgery and is currently recovering The whole of scripture is about Jesus: with Phantom still holding on.

Martin Luther [1483-1546]: ‘Scripture is the - Sent in by Jan & John D’Arcy Evans manger in which the Christ lies.’

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Coming Home Ed and I have recently returned to our ‘old home’ in Mons Ave, Lynfrae Cape Town after 25 years away.

We have also returned to our ‘old home’ of Christ Church where we were married by David Cook nearly 40 years ago and where our two young children, Andrew and Kate spent their early years in Sunday School. Before our marriage I had attended Christ Church during the years of David Prior and Ernie Ashcroft’s ministries and I have an idea that it was probably in David Prior’s time that I first sensed a call to the ordained ministry. Women were not being ordained in the late seventies and so that early calling remains a ‘sense’. It was however, fulfilled years later in 2002 when I was ordained as a deacon in the Bloemfontein Diocese and then some more years later as a priest in the same Diocese.

And so what of the years before our marriage in 1980 and during the last 25 years away from Cape Town?

I trained as a general nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital and it was during my third year block at Carinus Nursing College that I made the most significant decision of my young life. I was 18 years old when through the witness of a sister tutor, I and four others in her class came face to face with the claims of Jesus Christ on our lives. So it was, that one day in June of 1966, I knelt at my bed in the Nurses Home, and as directed by that great theologian, John Stott in his book Your Confirmation, asked the Lord Jesus to come in to my life; to be my Saviour, my Guide and my Friend.

“Don’t worry, it’s a passing phase” said my mother as I began to talk about this happening; and to my shame today, was very hurtful towards my parents in my early zeal. I’d like to think that I am more winsome about the way I share my faith these days, but it sure wasn’t a ‘passing phase’! I began to hang out with new friends who thought similarly to me and the five of us nurses were wonderfully grounded in our new faith by mentors at St Peter’s Church in Mowbray. Though we are scattered today, all five of us (we call ourselves the Famous Five of Enid Blighton fame!) continue in the faith and still enjoy wonderful reunions from time to time .

But more special about our time at St. Peter’s is that it was here as a member of the ‘Friday YP group’ that I met my future husband Ed in 1966. Ed was studying civil engineering at Cape Town University. Not that we got it together at that stage but somehow, between Ed’s mother and myself we always knew where the other was until our marriage at a beautiful ceremony April 2018 Eight O’Clock News

at Christ Church in 1980! This was surely the next best decision I made.

And so today finds Ed and I back in Cape Town with Ed almost in the twilight of his fascinating career, most of which has been in the water sector as a consultant civil engineer on Dams, Tunnels, Hydropower, Pipelines and Water Treatment Plants.

We have lived our married life in wonderful places, not least of which was three years at Katse Dam on the FIRST phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project from 1991 and where our children also had a great education. They would walk ‘around the mountain’ to the international school each day where they were taught, tutor style, by a brilliant educator.

But before Katse, throw in St Francis Bay, Strand and Cape Town; and after Katse, Lesotho, Pretoria; and lastly Lesotho again and there is the whole mix.

During both of the Lesotho sojourns we lived in Ladybrand on the Eastern Free State border.

In these days now back in Cape Town, Ed is spending one week in each month in Maseru where he is completing the Programme Management of a major bulk water supply project to the LOWLANDS of Lesotho. As this project draws to a close he will be offering part-time consultant and mentoring services to the Phase 2 of the HIGHLANDS Water Project and which will include the construction of a large dam near Mokhotlong with tunnels to gravity feed into the Katse Dam and on to Gauteng, South Africa.

Also in these days, I am looking forward to some involvement in ministry at Christ Church Kenilworth but am already loving being back in Cape Town where our daughter Kate has made her home with Robbie Obree and their little two-year old Victoria Mey. Our son Andrew and his wife Tamaryn live in London, thankfully only one night’s sleep away and so we look forward to a trip to visit them there too, hopefully during this year.

In a thumbnail sketch such as I have just drawn, it looks like everything has been without valleys. I must hasten to add that there have been challenges probably the greatest of which was a major head-on collision between myself driving a Toyota Camry and a Volvo which was speeding into the setting sun on the wrong side of the road over a blind rise in August of 1999. My injuries, humanly speaking, were insurmountable and it was probably two years before I got my life ‘sort of’ back. I think today that it was a miracle and in my ministry now it is likely the single most important tool that I have in my box… people know that I have known what it is like to be helpless.

Perhaps another helpful tool though, is that I am no stranger to the two unwelcome visitors of anxiety and depression. Such a strange thing this as when it is present one can’t imagine it being absent and the converse is true! Truly we are fearfully and wonderfully made. I am grateful that mostly this thorn is very manageable.

But to conclude…as we look back over the almost forty-year landscape of our marriage: the many homes we have shared, the communities in which we

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have loved and been loved; and above all at our two beautiful young adults now in marriages of their own, I know with ever greater conviction that “those whom God has joined together, nothing and no-one can put asunder”. I never cease to be grateful for the man that I married, who has walked the difficult journey following my accident at my side. Ed knows just how important my independence is to me, and has developed an amazing ability to anticipate when and where I need support, and then, once I am coping again, to step quietly back. I salute you Ed! - Jessica & Ed McCarter

God’s Messengers Billy Graham died on 21 February 2018 at the age of 99. As a messenger of God, he had planned his own funeral very carefully to be a call for people to put their faith in Jesus.

Billy said beforehand, ‘Some day you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t believe a word of it.

I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.’ In 1934, at the age of 16, Billy heard God’s call and became a faithful messenger of the gospel. He spoke about Jesus to over 210 million people in person and to almost half the population of the world on TV or radio. He was determined to make the most of every opportunity, including his own funeral, to pass on God’s message to the world.

‘My messenger’ is the way John the Baptist is described by God (Luke 7:27). You too can be God’s messenger. Jesus speaks of ‘the message about the kingdom’ (Matthew 13:19). In the New Testament, ‘the message’ is a synonym for ‘the gospel’ (see Acts 2:41; 10:44). Our task is both to hear this message and to declare it to others (1 John 1:5).

- Nicky Gumbel, The Bible in One Year

Two Granddaughters and a Great-Granddaughter Anna Poulos was born to Mom Heather

Tomalin House Group Peter Tomalin took the photograph of L>R Peggy Hodges, Gill & Keith Slauck, Cynthia Gillespie and Lindy Tomalin on their visit to Harold Porter Botaical Garden in Betty’s Bay and had a wonderful time.

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(Granddaughter) and Dad Henry (Grandson-inlaw) on 24 March by Caesarean Section [Anna was considering several options of arrival so giving Mom some difficulty!]. Her arrival is a delight to Great-Grandma Denise and GreatGrandpa Dareth Wood and second-cousin Erin [10-year old Granddaughter and daughter of Heather’s Aunt Tracey and no longer the youngest member of the Wood clan].

Grandma Betty-Ann is also delighted !!

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In the Soup I love making vegetable soup.

There’s something so satisfying about selecting the mix of vegetables, all shapes, sizes and colours. Then there’s the peeling to remove the outer hard or grubby layer, and to reveal the lovely vegetable underneath. A variety of colours and textures. Because I add things as I go along the soups I make never taste exactly the same, and that makes it a rather interesting exercise.

The process is, for me, very satisfying. Once all the vegetables are prepared and in the pot, the stock added, and also possibly a large chunk of meat to give extra flavour, there is the enjoyment of stirring it all together and turning on the heat. It can take a while to come to the boil if it’s a very full pot so I keep a careful watch to prevent it from boiling over. Once it’s come to the boil I turn it down very low and allow the slow heat to do its work. The vegetables, once all very individual, start to soften and mingle, to form a combined whole. The hot stock provides a medium in which the various flavours of each vegetable come together and form a new combined taste, adding to the variety of individual flavours, something like an orchestra combining various instruments to produce a beautiful new sound.

The various vegetables are still identifiable but softened and slightly modified, adding to the combined flavor but still maintaining a certain identity.

Part of the enjoyment of this experience is checking on the pot regularly, watching how it’s all coming together. And tasting of course, adding a bit more salt, a bit more pepper, some parsley, a pinch of mixed dried herbs, some tomato paste which adds to the taste and enriches the colour. It’s a work in progress, evolving before my fascinated eyes.

One day as I stood over my pot of soup I realised that I like to do the same with people. No, not put them in a pot of boiling water(!), but mix a group of my friends, some of whom have never met, and watch the interaction happen, the atmosphere change, groups form as they react upon one another in the common ‘stock’ of my lounge where they have been brought together. Add tea, coffee, wine, good food, and the blending of mutual interests, people they have in common, and it’s a very different mix to what it was when people first arrived.

Recently I was sitting in church looking at all the familiar faces around me, at all the new friends we’ve made in the years since we’ve been coming here, and it occurred to me that the church and my pot of soup had a lot in common. Through the church doors come many people from a variety of backgrounds, with a variety of needs. Varying appearances, different temperaments, various levels of education and wealth, coming from a variety of areas. The common denominator is being drawn into the worship April 2018 Eight O’Clock News

community, of searching for something beyond ourselves. We’re wanting to find God, or if we have already committed our lives to him, we want to grow as Christians, and to serve the Lord we love. The wonderful thing is that God hears us and meets these needs. We who are already believers, already part of the ‘soup’, find that God is using us in the lives of others who are searching for Him, or we’re being used to enrich the lives of fellow-believers. Amazing!

We watch strangers become friends and people who once felt alone becoming part of the community.

Everyone adds something different, and the various mixes of people at any one time add to the changes in atmosphere.

The ‘taste’ alters subtly as people mingle in the ‘stock’ that is the church community. If that ‘stock’ has a rich, strong flavour people are drawn to it. New people become part of the whole. The added ‘meat’ of the sermon has a life-changing effect on people as they come to faith, learn, grow and become part of the overall ‘flavour’ of service and worship. Sometimes people come from other worshipping communities, bringing with them new flavours which are added to the soup. The congregation is a dynamic, living ‘soup’ in which all things combine. Just as the slow cooking for a long time brings out the flavours of the vegetables, so the sustained time of growing together, learning together and worshipping together makes us into a community. We learn so many lessons when the heat in the pot is increased due to some tragedy or trial. In that heat we share in one another’s pain and emerge from that experience closer to one another and to the Lord.

In the church people’s talents and abilities come together, the parsley and the dried herbs and the tomato, all adding to the pleasing whole. As some people leave and others come, things change. New people bring other gifts and talents which are added to what is already there. Sometimes someone brings a whole new flavour, and we all benefit. The church is a living, dynamic body.

I love being ‘in the soup’ at Christ Church. The stock is rich and strong, the various flavours add so much interest, the meaty sermons are great growth points, and there is the warm fellowship that is so encouraging and enriching. It is a ‘God with us’ place.

- Jeanette Harris

Worship Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, the nourishment of mind with His truth, the purifying of imagination by His beauty, the opening of the heart to love, the surrender of will to His purpose—and all this is gathered up in adoration to the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centredness which is the original sin and the source of all actual sin.

- Archbishop William Temple [1942-44]

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The Grand Weaver

of your burden and beckoning you to your service to Him in the place and pursuit of His choosing. have just been—Good Friday and Easter Sunday—days Finding your home in your service to Christ is key to noticing the threads designed just for you. It gives you of heartache and amazing joy and wonderment. that hand-in-glove sensation and provides the security Heartbreak that Jesus chose to endure a dreadful of knowing that you are utilising your gifts and your death by crucifixion for you and me so we might will to God’s ends first, not for yours. When your will become God’s children, our sins forgiven; and wonderment and joy that He is alive AND WITH US becomes aligned with God’s will, His calling upon you has found its home. Finding one’s calling is one of the TODAY AND FOREVER ! HALLELUIA ! greatest challenges in life, especially when one has gifts In his book, ‘The Grand Weaver’, Ravi Zacharias that fan out in many directions and He can call us by writes about meeting, speaking to and watching an slow encouraging methods as well as by dramatic Indian weaver at work creating beautiful saris. He ones.” then writes: “Now if an ordinary weaver can take a collection of coloured threads and create a garment to I found this chapter very encouraging, particularly now that I am unable physically to do what I used to beautify a face, is it not possible that the Grand Weaver—God—has a design in mind for you, a design do, and often I have felt I wasn’t ‘serving’ Him. Silly that will adorn you as He uses your life to fashion you me !

For those of us at the autumn / winter season, of our for His purpose, using all the threads within reach.? lives have to listen hard to what God is calling us to do “Once you begin to see God’s hand in your life, you for Him, maybe/probably very “ornery” things in will know that His workmanship within you and through you was tailor-made, just for you. His design comparison to what we did in our ‘spring’ days, but which God calls us to do for Him now, and only we for your life pulls together every thread of your can do it because we have the time, and gifts to do it. existence into a magnificent work of art. Every thread matters and has a specific purpose. (And I say, I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to seeing the ‘sari’ of my life one day and seeing what WOW !) colour threads God used and how He wove them.

Ravi lists headings that matter: “DNA, Calling, Take care and may the blessings of Easter remain with Disappointments, Morality, Spirituality, Will, you.

Worship and Destiny.” One caught my eye, “Your - Wendy Gunn Calling matters” and in this chapter he writes:“What is a Calling? A calling is simply God’s shaping

The two most significant days of our walk with Jesus

Once for All A ‘Once’ event that changed the course of history and has the potential to change all of our lives. * Jesus appeared ‘once for all’ - Hebrews 9:26 * Jesus Christ was sacrificed ‘once’ to take away the sins of many - Hebrews 9:28 * Jesus entered the Most Holy Place ‘once for all

by His own blood’ (not by means of the blood of goats and calves) - Hebrews 9:12 * We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ ‘once for all’ Hebrews 10:10 *But when this priest (Jesus) had offered for all time ‘one’ sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God - Hebrews 10:12 * For by ‘one’ sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy - Hebrews 10:14 This ‘once’ event stemmed from God’s great love for us and has huge implications for your life and mine.

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