A Call to Persevere in Faith 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some

Two weeks ago we commenced a new series that will take us up till Christmas. It is the encounters that Jesus had people as told through the eyes of Luke. We have shared how we don’t know much about Luke, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. But we do know that Luke was a doctor and the only non-Jew to write any part of the New Testament. We also know that Luke was a close friend of Paul (Colossians 4:14 NIV) who also worked with Paul (Philemon 1:24 NIV) on various mission trips (Acts 16:6–11; 17:1; 20:5; 2 Timothy 4:11). Two weeks ago we learnt about Simeon’s encounter with Jesus (Luke 2:25-35). As 40-day old child, Jesus had a profound impact upon Simeon. For many years Si

1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings

Last week we commenced a new series that will take us up till Christmas. It is the encounters that Jesus had people as told through the eyes of Luke. Last week we said that we don’t know much about Luke, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. But we do know that Luke was a doctor and the only non-Jew to write any part of the New Testament. Luke was a close friend of Paul (Colossians 4:14 NIV) who also worked with Paul (Philemon 1:24 NIV). Luke joined Paul in Troas in Asia Minor during Paul’s second missionary journey (Acts 16:6–11). Luke was left in Philippi during the second missionary journey (Acts 17:1) and picked up again to travel with Paul in the third journey (Acts 20:

At the beginning of this year, Leisl let it slip that maybe I would like a dog for my birthday. Now you need to understand that Leisl is not a doggy kinda person. She never had a dog as a kid. In fact, the only pet she had was a gold fish which one jumped out of its bowl and died. Leisl never grew up with pets. I, on the other hand, grew up with pets – dogs, cats, fish, blue tongue lizards, chooks and ducks, tortoises, mice. I think my mum was very patient with us Moyes’ boys. When Leisl and I got married, I was very obedient and didn’t have pets, unless you call chooks pets. For 28-years poor me didn’t have a dog. Its one of those sacrifices you make in marriages. Not being a dog person, Le

Malachi 4:5-6 (NIV) 5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”