by Frank Retief | Jul 23, 2013 | Thought for the day
Mark 16:6 “’Don’t be alarmed’. He said: You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.” Sometimes people say that if they could only see a miracle they would believe. Some go further and say...
by Frank Retief | Jul 22, 2013 | Thought for the day
Romans 3:21 “But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the law and the prophets testify.” Just think for a moment how much good the noble deeds of great men have accomplished in the world. Although our world is fallen we must not...
by Frank Retief | Jul 21, 2013 | Thought for the day
Mark 16:34 “My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?” Many people have felt utterly forsaken by God at different times in their life. Certainly King David did during one of the courses in his life. He wrote a Psalm about it. Psalm 22. And it is the opening...
by Frank Retief | Jul 20, 2013 | Thought for the day
Matthew 26:39: “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will but as you will.” Many of us have experienced that sense of dread or depression that overtakes us before we have to face a particular trial or crisis. But no one alive has...
by Frank Retief | Jul 19, 2013 | Thought for the day
Matthew 16:21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to His disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Mark...
by Frank Retief | Jul 18, 2013 | Thought for the day
Mark 8:29 “But what about you” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered: “You are the Christ” This is an amazing moment in the Gospel narrative. Matthew records it in more detail in Matthew 16:13-20. He goes on to say that Jesus replied: “Blessed are you, Simon...
