tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81514661186415332852024-03-14T13:13:35.813+02:00LoCTY! (=Love of Christ To You)Just a place where I try and share my "walk" with Jesus Christ, my saviour and try my best to be 'real'.LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-32434698824725103502011-04-26T21:47:00.000+02:002011-04-26T21:47:57.461+02:00Great Christian Music – Awesome God<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-66440321578255632702011-03-26T13:40:00.002+02:002011-03-26T13:55:31.046+02:00Mighty Men Western Cape 2011
Last weekend (18-20 March 2011) I attended a Mighty Men Conference on Elohim farm in the region of Paarl. I must be honest I was not too sure if I wanted to go on the weekend as I’m wary of para-church organizations. You know they can give you this big WOW factor and you then compare it to your home church and often you feel that you are being let down in your home church.
The theme of the LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-66992457224427162702011-02-20T16:15:00.005+02:002011-02-20T22:16:14.779+02:00Walter at McDonald's
Most Sunday evenings after church we go eat at the Mac’s just around the corner from the church. Yes I know junk food and all that but as a family we enjoy it and it solves the problem of having to go home at 8-8.30pm and still make something to eat. A few Sundays ago we were walking back to the car, after having finished our meal. I just out of courtesy thanked the security guard that was LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-90611140224659782312011-02-12T09:03:00.000+02:002011-02-12T09:03:13.726+02:00Bible Reading by Josh Brown and Day of FireIsaiah 28.16
So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.
Ephesians 2:19-22
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-44509020469323195032011-02-08T15:05:00.002+02:002011-02-09T07:52:22.860+02:00A Tribute To My FriendsI hardly know how to put this tribute down in words ‘cause most of the time God’s grace, mercy and love shown through my friends has been indescribable….
When I accepted Jesus as my Saviour I can’t remember having any real friends. I had colleagues at work, old school acquaintances, ex-army buddies and such like ……but no friends. Oh yes and I was a ‘real friendly’ guy. Then God saw fit to bless LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-54122340064996863662011-01-28T13:15:00.001+02:002011-01-28T13:17:15.293+02:00Candlelight
What would you have seen last night?
In the candlelight
Would our love for you have shone through our faces?
Would the love of Jesus be reflecting from us?
As we saw that love reflecting off you
Do we ever know what we truly mean in each other’s lives?
As friends, children, brothers, sisters, husbands and wives
Oh my love you have opened my heart
So that I can see Jesus my friend
I LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-40631021906219572072011-01-13T17:37:00.001+02:002011-01-13T21:36:00.032+02:00Great Christian Music - Blessed AssuranceFanny Crosby wrote more than eight thousand hymns and used more than two hundred pen names. Under contract to a music publisher, she wrote three new hymns each week during much of her adult life. The fact that she was blind didn’t diminish her productivity. She would formulate an entire song in her mind and then dictate it to a friend or a secretary.
One of her good friends was Phoebe Palmer LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-66583287258740867272011-01-05T18:41:00.003+02:002011-01-05T18:56:45.818+02:00Matthew’s Great Achievement
Our son Matthew did fantastically well in his junior school career. His prize giving, at Bosmansdam Primary, was on the 30 November 2010. He came top of grade 7. He also won the Dux Shield which means that he achieved the highest marks of all the grade 7’s over the seven year period of his junior school career. His name was also put on the school’s roll of honour.
When he went up for his awardsLoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-77022214181258411812011-01-02T23:00:00.003+02:002011-01-02T23:31:56.785+02:00Blessed RedeemerWrote this email on the 10 September 2010, posting with current date.
Precious Saints,
Tears kept coming into my eyes as I was listening to this song (on my ipod) on the way into work this morning on the bus......quite a surreal experience......have had a different kinda week, cancelled cell group, won’t be able to go to mens' group at Salem tomorrow (Matt’s soccer) and then we have decided to LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-60439197502566325272010-12-27T14:55:00.009+02:002010-12-28T10:34:56.917+02:00My (Raymond's) SalvationTestimonySo here it is eventually my salvation testimony. This is the letter I was talking about in my previous post which I wrote to someone I love very much who is still with the Jehovah's Witnesses. I wrote this letter in 2007 but I'm posting it as current date.Hope it's not too loooong!!
My Dear ??????,
I’ve been wanting to write this letter to you for about three years. But I’ve always been stumpedLoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-46106723754583425422010-12-20T13:22:00.010+02:002010-12-28T10:40:06.810+02:00GOoD DAY!!Hi to everyone reading this. I suppose looking at this blog some people may have been wondering right.... what's happened to this guy, he has just kinda disappeared. So it's been two years now since I have posted anything. At the time in 2008 a couple of weeks before Christmas a 'feeling'/prompting just came to me to stop blogging. His Holy Spirit was preparing me for something else, starting me LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-34722173109364891072008-12-11T22:26:00.004+02:002010-12-28T10:28:49.884+02:00Yes Virginia there is a Santa ClauseIn 1897, Francis P. Church wrote a now-famous editorial in which he told little Virginia O'Hanlon that indeed there was a Santa Claus. Church wrote in the Sun:
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist…No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever."
St. Nicholas:
About AD 260 there was born a certain man named Nicholas whoLoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-87521986960084482292008-12-04T21:02:00.004+02:002008-12-04T21:05:07.780+02:00Quote for the day (15)If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles with evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I have to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naïve faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.Gary E ParkerLoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-72087984403529356472008-11-22T13:19:00.021+02:002011-01-03T14:57:31.095+02:00Great Christian Music - I Stand Amazed in the Presence
In the early 1900s, Charles H. Gabriel was the king of gospel music. Gabriel wrote the words and music for a number of hymns used by popular evangelists of his day such as Billy Sunday and his song leader, Homer Rodeheaver.
Gabriel’s hymns reflect a change in the style of gospel music. In the 1800s, hymns were deeply theological and often meditative. But with the revivals of Moody and Sunday, LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-3711579506798438902008-11-15T12:27:00.006+02:002008-11-15T12:38:17.589+02:00Quote for the day (14)Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.Soren Kierkegaard (1813 -1855)LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-92038902972561950602008-11-12T06:48:00.017+02:002011-01-03T10:57:10.714+02:00Stay (I'm leaving now.....but I don't want to go....)Earlier this year one of my close and dear friends, Craig, asked me to go with him to minister to a couple who are close friends of his. The wife had been diagnosed with cancer and it was in an advanced stage and there was nothing that any of the doctors could do. Craig and his wife had been ministering to this couple, since sometime in the previous year and asking their friends to lift them and LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-83838008148914902882008-11-08T13:52:00.004+02:002008-11-08T14:17:07.235+02:00I have been taggedI have been tagged by Scott McQueen from Just A Thought on the 1 November and I'm only getting around to it now. So Scott humble apologies for my tardiness and thanks for the tag. Mmmm I'm pretty new at this so lettuce C........7 things huh....1. I accepted Jesus as my Saviour when I was forty.2. I used to be a Jehovah's Witness in the 80's3. I have been divorced twice.4. I work for the City ofLoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-2238633113611948172008-11-07T20:55:00.006+02:002008-11-07T21:10:39.412+02:00Quote for the day (13)How to promote the absence of God.Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on(and the TV). Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them carefully. But you'd be safer to stick to the papers. You'll find the advertisements helpful; LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-70608265953859566532008-11-06T11:55:00.005+02:002011-01-03T10:52:14.896+02:00Bible Reading by Matt Redman - Psalm 84:1,2 and 9-121 How lovely is your dwelling place,O LORD Almighty! 2 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. 9 Look upon our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one. 10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. 11 ForLoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-29998326096014160942008-10-22T04:00:00.004+02:002011-01-02T23:39:06.192+02:00Quote for the day (12)Some Christians haven't even attempted to think about whether or not they would die for Jesus because they haven't really been living for Him.LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-12110146597816310952008-10-21T16:04:00.009+02:002008-10-21T16:22:56.996+02:00'She died doing the Lord's work': Mother's grief for aid worker killed by the Taliban for being ChristianHeard this on the radio this morning, it struck a cord within me, just wanted to share it.The mother of the British woman who was shot dead by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan has spoken of her grief at losing her daughter.Gayle Williams, 34, was walking to work in Kabul when she was gunned down by two men on a motorbike because she was working for a Christian organisation. Her mother Pat Williams,LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-58437280412135374282008-10-18T13:05:00.011+02:002008-10-18T13:24:23.689+02:00Bringing Scripture To LifeThe Psalm ScrollEvery day new discoveries are made that help to bring the pages of Scripture to life. Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered several new sections of an ancient wall that once surrounded Jerusalem, located just south of the Old City. Archaeologists have found part of a wall from the Second Temple period as well as a section built during the Byzantine era. This discovery couldLoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-43856199809670098552008-10-14T05:00:00.003+02:002008-10-21T16:25:40.984+02:00Quote for the day (11) To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-18043858458212081812008-10-13T16:16:00.004+02:002008-11-07T21:29:17.442+02:00What a friend we have in JesusJust thought I'd share this email with you....Precious Saints and dear friends in Christ!!!What a friend we have in Jesus!!!! That is actually an old, old song but oh so true.Sunday night at church I didn’t feel particularly spiritual, actually felt a bit empty and dry, had a really hectic week with the flu, laryngitis and backwards and forwards visiting my mom (she had broken her hip a week agoLoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8151466118641533285.post-7639318552940655922008-10-01T23:41:00.006+02:002008-10-01T23:55:33.883+02:00Quote for the day (10)I can live for two months on a good compliment.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)LoCTYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01921292952995496171noreply@blogger.com2