Weekly Teachings by Erik Momsen

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THE Faith
Many speak about faith and this could be faith in crystals or some guru or personal development trainer. Too many also believe that faith is just a feeling and has no real definite content. You can basically believe what you want to. This is strange in that almost everything in the universe has a definite answer but they claim this is not true for issues of faith. In math one plus one is two but this does not apply in issue of faith. The universe is an ordered place but there is no order in faith. The faith of the Bible and hence of Christianity is a specific and defined concept. The Apostle Paul often talks about “the Faith”. He saw it as a very unique thing.

(Date Added: 2012-01-09)

Faith 2012
When faith dies we stop hoping. We stop trying. We stop having dreams and visions. We stop living. Dying faith says; ”I give up”. Faith is not easy to understand and for many not easy to attain BUT Jesus said little children have it. We all have faith, but not all have faith in the God of heaven. We can have faith in our abilities, money and power to achieve our desired outcome or we can look to God.

(Date Added: 2012-01-04)

What Child is this?
You have to look past the fat man in a red suit, the reindeer, the elves, the trees, the bells, the balls and all the other trash. You have to look into the crib and serious ask who is this person who the world throws the biggest party for? Strange though how the world spend more money on this one day than any other day and yet in most media you cannot use the name of the person who's celebration it is --- JESUS.

(Date Added: 2011-12-27)

Hope for your Hopelessness!!!
Even the predictive text program spat out “Hopelessness” after I got to "hop … ". Someone asked why there were so few "white kids" in my school. I replied they had the means to fly away. In my creeping despair I snapped that I would too if God allowed me. (By the way, my enquiring friend is about 20 shades darker than I and he also wanted that ticket). But then the greener pasture might have been Christ Church ...

(Date Added: 2011-11-27)

Which Road???
Perhaps it is just that I am getting older and tired, but there is an increasing sense in me that very few are on the right road. Andy Stanley has a very clever set of teachings calling us to be mindful as to which road we are on. Our destination in life and death is not determined by our hopes and prayers but by our decisions, actions and path. Are you actually FOLLOWING Jesus?

(Date Added: 2011-11-24)

Faith
Times are tough and will get tougher. Some will fall in a big way and others will survive to inherit the land. Underneath all this is the testing of faith. Prof Piet Naude of NMMU observes that the world is going though a crisis of trust (faith). The world used to trust its banks but this trust us gone and now the world does not know who or what to trust. The bottom has fallen out and and they do not know what to hold onto.

(Date Added: 2011-11-17)

What's the Good News?
Have you caught yourself watching the news on TV and having an expectancy? Perhaps there will be a tax cut or the price of petrol will come down or your least favorite politician was fired – not a regular occurrence in Africa. I buy the week-end news paper to look for a bargain or a really cheap holiday. Am I alone in these sentiments? I am looking for good news. These are pretty superficial desires compared to hearing the good news that a friend is in remission or a young person has kicked the drug habit. There are levels of good news. The question is do we understand the Good News of Jesus? Could our understanding of the Good News of Jesus perhaps be a little self-centered or even selfish?

(Date Added: 2011-11-09)

Marriage Rededication
Just because a practice is common in the world does not mean it is right. Just because it is a hard teaching does not mean we must find ways around it. Marriage has been under attack for centuries and modern man has almost completely cast off restraint in this matter. The consequences are dire for all concerned but much of our society has lost the art of marriage.

(Date Added: 2011-09-20)

It's not a game
Paul, the man who is credited with brining the Gospel to the gentiles, was passionate unto death. He draws imagery from the world of human contest to show us that the gospel is not a past time or a hobby. The Gospel is not a game. The Gospel is everything. But few get this fact. Most see it as a hobby.

(Date Added: 2011-09-16)

You will have trouble - but ...
It is unfortunate that many Christians believe, and some even teach, that becoming a believer is the end to trouble. Jesus did not teach that, and to be honest most of us have found that the trouble might even increase after joining God's family. Jesus found that obeying the Father was very troublesome. He said there words just before his own death; "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

(Date Added: 2011-09-09)

The Passion of the Christ
Followers of Jesus have been celebrating and mourning the Passion of Jesus for close on two thousand years. The Passion is the focus or pivotal point of Christian thinking and from the time of the first believers has been a point of controversy. Paul, emphasizing the centrality of the cross, writes, "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified."

(Date Added: 2011-09-02)

The Meat is on the Street
It is a fact that in all parts of the world except Europe and North America the church is growing faster than ever before. Close to 40% of humanity belong to the church, but it is blatantly true that we still seem to be losing the battle against sin and destruction. African Christianity is said to be a mile wide but only an inch thick. Is our problem not perhaps that we have too closely associated church with the building? Our spiritual life is so linked with the building that it cannot get out into the streets where it belongs. Anyone who has read the New Testament will know that the church started in the street and had its roots in the temple. The church was blown out of the upper room into the street where the first service saw over 3000 people saved. At this point in time it is as if the church is praying that the harvest (which according to Jesus is always ready) will either harvest itself and come into the storehouse, or will be blown in by a mighty wind. The harvesters are afraid of the harvest.

(Date Added: 2011-08-25)

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