Mar 15 2014
Everything is Meaningless till God speaks
Ecclesiastes 1:1-14, 1 Corinthians 14:24-25
‘Everything is meaningless!’ This is the cry of Ecclesiastes. Did you ever feel that way? For some it’s a momentary frustration, for others it’s an ongoing philosophy. Atheists believe life is meaningless; a mere accident in time. Christians believe it has meaning because a Creator always has a purpose. But just as atheists have moments of belief, so Christians have moments of doubt. And just as atheists have moments when they wonder if something spiritual happened, so believers have moments when they don’t see the spiritual side of life and things seems meaningless. Perhaps this was Solomon’s position when he said ‘Everything is meaningless!’ Or maybe he was trying to provoke doubters to think deeper; to look past the temporary things of this life. Either way, from an evangelistic perspective, both the atheist and the doubting believer need a bit of help if they are going to be convinced that God is close and life has meaning. Very often the cry of the atheist is ‘Seeing-is-believing – if God is there show us!’ Did Jesus have an answer to that? Well yes I think he did. More
Jun 20 2015
Love Your Church
Some years ago I was walking through the Johannesburg city centre. Most of the buildings I walked past were very high. Suddenly I came across a space where there was no building. There was just a corrugated iron fence and I could hear pneumatic drills, big engines and lots of shouting on the other side. I looked inquisitively through a hole in the fence and was surprised to find myself gazing down into a massive hole. It took up the area of a whole building and was a few stories deep. My first thought was “Wow, why are they going so deep?” But it’s obvious; they were preparing the foundation for a building that was going to go very high. The higher you want to go, the deeper you must go. And as I looked into this enormous hole in the ground, it hit me: foundations are really important!
Did you know God is building a building? And did you know this building has a very special foundation? More