Friday, November 4, 2005


Isn't life interesting? (In Glasgow at least.) This is a country of people that need God, and that's why we're here. It also can cause one to think at times: "There's never a dull moment!"

Thursday, September 8, 2005

First Bible Club Lesson for Glasgow Bible Club


Who is God?

Who is God? (Listen for answers)

Is there one God or many gods? – There is only one God.

Does God have a body that you can see? – God is a Spirit, but God dwells in the body of Jesus. Jesus is God in a body.

God is one God in three persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They are all one God, but they are three persons. (Persons are not bodies, a person can still be a person with no body. The Holy Spirit does not have any body, but the Holy Spirit is God and He is a person in the Trinity.) God is called “The TRINITY” Trinity means three in one.

Do the persons in the trinity love one another? Yes, they do. They love each other very much. GOD is LOVE.

The three persons are one God (Not three GODS, ONE God in THREE persons!) Jesus said Jesus is God.

The first thing you must know about God is this:

God is your creator! God made the whole world and everything in it. He made the sun, moon and stars. He made the fruit trees and the flowers. He made the birds and the dogs and the cows. And God made people. That means God made you. God the Father made the universe through God the Son by God the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 1:16 is a verse about Jesus. It says: The world was made through Jesus. And everything was made for Jesus.

The trees were made for Jesus, the animals were made for Jesus. You were made for Jesus. But do you know what? You don’t live for Jesus. You were made for Jesus but you don’t love Jesus. And that is because we are sinful.

We are so sinful, we cannot even love and worship this wonderful God. God is so wonderful. He is three persons in one. He is love and He made this beautiful world. But we don’t love and worship him because we are sinners. Our sins separate us from this wonderful God.

Jesus, the Son of God came to this world in a body so that he could save us from our sins. He never sinned, because He is God. He died to take the punishment for our sins. If we trust in Him to save us from our sins and bring us to God, He will take away our sins and bring us to God.


Thursday, September 1, 2005

American Amnesia

We are a people who have amnesia toward God. He is the end and goal of the entire universe. How can it be that he is so absent from our lives? The answer is of course, sin. But we don't call it that. Murder is sin. But forgetting God?...

American commercialism emphasizes the enhancement of our enjoyment of God's gifts - "Indulge your senses and satisfy your cravings; though it cost all you have, get comfort!" Advertisements don't call their goods God's gifts. He is simply ignored, and we are quickly and quietly led to completely forget Him, though he is the Giver. This is so wrong.

This departure from the divine is extremely subtle. To the Christian, the silence toward God ought to sound louder than every perky voice and trite tune that surrounds and fruitlessly endeavors to fill that silent space. But more often we are drawn by American commercialism into a world filled with pleasant things we don't possess and health we don't have (unless we would use that brand of laxative...) namely we are presented with a heaven on earth without God! In such a God-less paradise may we ever hear the hollow, howling void that whispers "hell."

In television programs and advertisements about healthy, care-free, luxurious, comfortable lives, may we ever see what lies beyond them - namely eternity - and remember. Remember eternity. Remember God. Television causes you to forget what is important.

Therefore, let us turn from the hollow world, choosing not to fill our God-given minds with the God-less American dream. In practical English: Turn of the television, get your Bible and start praying that God would make you a person who loves Him and lives for eternity.

Let us then, turning from the world, turn to our Lord Jesus who is himself heaven on earth, even in impoverishment. He is in a cold and lonely house our dearest friend; in crawling, crowded tenements our joy and peace. His love is better than life! Let us not love this world and forget God, but let us hate our lives in this world that we may keep them for eternal life!

Monday, August 29, 2005

Grant To Me Solid Joys

Hollow to me
Are life’s joys without Thee
Gifts less the giver
Shall satisfy never

Alone, I’ll float
Drifting, empty, remote
In an ocean
Of incessant motion

Abide with me!
Let me remain in Thee!
Come Thou near me
To bear fruit I need Thee

Fill my dead gap
With Thy life-giving sap
Let Thy words sure
Fill my heart, make me pure.

In all life’s noise
Grant to me solid joys
Joys, Lord, of Thee
For Thou makest me happy

In Thy nearness
Is joy and deep gladness
No more hollow,
I’ll seek Thee and follow.

- by Alyssa Colby

Saturday, August 27, 2005


The heavens are telling...
... the glory of God.

Yesterday evening I was reviewing Isaiah 40 and looking at the stars. I was just so amazed when I realized that the space between two stars I was looking at, that looked about 4 inches apart was really billions of miles. I was seeing billions of miles of space from my square foot of ground and its just all there. When I looked at the stars a long time, looking into them, I could
see the depth of spheres floating in space instead of just a "jeweled dome" It was awesome: "Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
"Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel - "My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God.' ? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

Who can look at the stars and not put their hope in the God who made them?