Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 9:43am
Matthew 3.17
How often are we reminded that we have a heavenly Father?
Probably not often enough.
Whatever our relationship with our earthly father was or is – there is a heavenly Father who seeks to guide us, help us, and fellowship with us. Our heavenly Father who wants to say, “This is my beloved (child) in whom I am well pleased.”
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Mon, 08/28/2023 - 9:59am
Ezekiel 18.32
Reading through the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations and Ezekiel can be difficult! These books are full of “doom and gloom”!
Actually, these books are just a True Record of how people were living at the time and God, well, God simply… records… it…
And so… why does it always have to be “God’s fault”…? God was only recording how people lived and the results of their life choices. Yet we often struggle with what the Bible records… Why?
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 08/24/2023 - 8:42am
Deuteronomy 2:16
“So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, That the LORD spake…” Deuteronomy 2:16-17
Here we see that the Lord reminds the people about the experience of the wilderness. Israel had the opportunity to enter the land of promise some forty years earlier. Israel failed to follow the direction of the Lord and thus the men of war (men who were old enough to go to war) died.
The book of Hebrews, in the first few chapters deals with that issue, and the application of failure to follow God's directions.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 08/17/2023 - 12:09pm
Isaiah 28:13
80 km per hour.
“Ye must be born again.”
“precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, and there a little”
80 km per hour.
“Ye must be born again.”
“precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, and there a little”
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Sat, 08/12/2023 - 10:06pm
This Psalm is about when the Jews returned from captivity in Babylon. It starts out by telling us what God had done for them:
“LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.” (v 1-3)
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Fri, 08/04/2023 - 3:22pm
John 10.27
“It is possible to get to a place where we need no argument to prove to us that the Bible is God's Word.
Christ says, "My sheep hear my voice”. God's children know His voice, and I know that the voice which speaks to me from the pages of that Book is the voice of my Father... Everyone can have that testimony.
John 7:17 tells us how to get it: "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God." (R. A. Torrey)
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Mon, 07/24/2023 - 9:43am
James 2.10
The whole verse says this, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” So, I may think that I’m doing everything right, but if I make one mistake, then I’ve broken all of God’s law? Yes, in fact it should be simple for us to see that we have all sinned against God:
SELF! I worship myself! “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
SELFISH! I bow down to my things! “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image”.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Tue, 07/18/2023 - 10:36am
Psalm 121.8
Whoa...!
Here we go again!!! What’s coming next?
Something has been said... and now something is being added to it... “...and even...”!
Is it like the neighbourhood fights when I was a kid? Insults would fly, then mud, then stones, “...and even...”
Someone would throw a knife (long story – not my fault) then the Police would arrive, “...and even...”
Is it like going from BAD... “...and even...” to WORSE?
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Fri, 07/14/2023 - 6:18am
Acts 14.27
“Are we ‘monks’ or ‘missionaries’?”
This was the topic of the email I sent out on Monday morning the 27th of June 2022. (About this time last year.)
Later that day I received an email from “Sara” asking me to remove her name from my mailout list. She thought comparing monks to missionaries was unchristian. I do not know “Sara”. A mutual friend asked if she could be added to thins mailout. My reply to “Sara” is below.
Good morning “Sara”.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 10:36am
Psalms 37:40
(For context, please note this was the devotion in our church bulletin from one year ago, as are most of these.)
We don’t always know that we are trusting in the Lord, but sooner or later OUR TRUST IN THE LORD WILL BE TESTED!
The past several weeks, leading up to our Missions Conference, which is a very important time for us as a church, we were tested as a church!
Our Missions Conference is IMPORTANT BECAUSE:
