Encouragement

“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth . . . All things were created through Him and for Him.” Colossians 1:16 (NKJV) Among our First Nations people, much is said about the “Creator” . . . like, “We believe in God the Creator; He created Mother Earth,” etc. There is not one accepted theory, as some believe the Bible, but others do not. To many, the Creator is just a mysterious power out there. The Scriptures teach that He is an intelligent Person who knows more about us than we know […]

“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider things of old.” Isaiah 43:18 (KJV) “Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.” Philippians 3:13b (KJV) I have a bad memory. I don’t mean that I forget things, I mean that I have almost total recall of events, people and conversations of my entire life. Most of the things I remember are not happy memories and I’d rather forget them. The average person has one quadrillion pieces of information in his or her brain. That would be written with the number 1 followed by […]

“Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.” Luke 6:36 (NKJV) What’s the biggest mistake you have ever made? Sometimes we perceive our mistakes as bigger than they really are. That feeling when you think you have completely wrecked something is not a good place to be. Two times come to my mind. The first one happened when I was still learning how to drive. We were out on my dad’s trapline, hunting and trapping beaver. We had this huge Chevy Suburban that needed to be moved, and I volunteered to do it. I had it in reverse, […]

“Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.’” Matthew 18:3-4 (NLT) When I was in Grade One, I was so excited to tell my school friends about Jesus. Anyone I was able to talk to, I’d share about who Jesus was, and what He’d done for us on the cross. One day, one of my school friends said she wanted to ask Jesus […]

“You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.” Galatians 5:4 (NIV) The new believers in the church in Galatia enjoyed the message of the Gospel and accepted Jesus to save them from their sins. However, after they accepted the Gospel message, their day-to-day lives began to focus on their behaviour, rather than on the love of God. Once a person enters into faith in Jesus and begins to live out the moral teachings of the Bible, there is a trap of entering what I call “perfectionism.” It is […]