 Thursday, 13 May, is Ascension Day.
To view the PowerPoint presentation of this article, click here. To listen to a similar message on Sermon Audio, click here. To listen to the latest From the Frontline radio interview on Ascension Day, click here. Why are so many things going Wrong? Recently, I was asked by a Christian leader: "Why is there so much corruption, crime and violence in our society? Why is there so much immorality, even in the church? Why are we seeing so many moral failures and scandals amongst leaders in business, in every level of government and even in the church?"
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 "Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father and keep My Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:3
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” Victor Hugo. “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” Booker T. Washington. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” George Washington. "The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the most successful statesman, or businessman, or artist, or inventor, or teacher, or musician." President Theodore Roosevelt.
Teen idol Miley Cyrus, caused controversy at the MTV Video Music Awards last year with a raunchy performance with Robin Thicke. Along with her explicit music video Wrecking Ball, this has led media commentators to wonder if she is the new Madonna.
The signing of the Marriage Bill 2014, on 30 April, by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi, legalized polygamous "marriage" between one man and multiple women.
With the extraordinary pressures to re-define marriage and accommodate the demands by gay activists for homosexual unions to be accepted as "marriage", many are asking: Well, what difference does it make?
“Any one who claims to be in the light, but hates his brother is still in the darkness.” 1 John 2:9
The Bible warns us that: “Envy rots the bones” Proverbs 14:30 and “Pride only breeds quarrels” Proverbs 13:10 The Word of God warns us of “The ruthless…mockers…with an eye for evil…” Isaiah 29:20 The Bible tells us of Esau who held a grudge against his brother Jacob (Genesis 27:41), and of Joseph’s brothers who hated and bullied their younger brother to such an extent that they betrayed him and sold him into slavery to Egypt. “They hated him and could not speak a kind word to him” Genesis 37:4. The Lord Jesus taught: “The world hates Me because I testify that what it does is evil.” John 7:7 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first.” John 15:18 “Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.” 1 John 3:15 ”When the results of life are all gathered up it will probably be seen that the things which have made the deepest and most lasting impressions in our homes and upon our children have not been the things we did with purpose and intention, planning to produce a certain effect, but the things we did when we were not thinking of training or influencing or affecting any other life.” J.R. Miller
Are you raising a bully, a victim or a bystander?
The tragic death of a 16 year old, grade 11 pupil, has highlighted the problem of bullying and violence in schools. Durban High School student, Shane McCarroll, tragically died in hospital after a fight at a friend’s 18th birthday party in Amanzintoti. Shane’s jaw was broken in two places and his right cheek bone was fractured. An artery in his neck ruptured, and a clot formed starving his brain of oxygen. He suffered a major stroke and was declared brain dead. According to a report in the Sunday Times (23/07/06), some of the youngsters had drunk alcohol before arriving at the party. The role of women in the home has been under attack for many decades. Exactly what it means to be a godly woman and finding her rightful place in God’s created order has always been a quest. Women have longed to know how to be fulfilled and how they can play a meaningful part in society at large.
Before the advent of television, Hollywood, the internet and other mass media, women had less difficulty accepting with a happy heart the role of home-maker, wife and mother. Even those curious to know what other avenues they may be able to explore suspected that ultimately raising a family and being married may be the keys to happiness. The challenge of determining the meaning of true Biblical womanhood is not unique to our, or our mother’s, generation. Though it is harder for us today, as we are bombarded by a cacophony of ideas, opinions, and trends, it is not unique to our time. In Proverbs we find the lament “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies” (Proverbs 31:10). So even then Biblical femininity was hard to find. |
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"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.” Matthew 28: 18-20
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.” Matthew 28: 18-20
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