by André Baard | Oct 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
“And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Genesis 2:9 Amazingly God planted both trees in...
by André Baard | Oct 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
“…love one another deeply, from the heart.” 1 Peter 1 ‘Investing in people’ is a phrase I hear used in church … it sounds right but it reveals something very different to what we see in scripture about relationships. ‘Investing’, implies an action taken with the...
by André Baard | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
“And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Eze 36:26 “having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which...
by André Baard | Aug 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
There are always two ugly sisters in any Cinderella story. They are Ms. Comfort and Ms. Convenience. Their controlling mother can only be Mrs. Pride. Ms. Comfort is always seeking, well, comfort and softness and feather beds and feather pillows. She seeks to be spoken...
by André Baard | Aug 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? Psalm 24:3 No one ascends a hill in straight line up, in linear fashion. Why? Because it is too steep. You ascend a steep gradient in a zig zag pattern or in a spiral, circular fashion. This way...
by André Baard | Aug 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Thronos (Strongs 2362) means seat or throne. From thrao (to sit); a stately seat (“throne”); by implication, power or (concretely) a potentate – seat of power. There are 63 occurrences of thronos in the New Testament, only the four below uses refer...