For the sake of the gospel

A friend of mine from Young Life is having 1700 Bibles delivered to her church tomorrow to be given out to every person in her college over the coming weeks (King George V College, Southport, England) and needs to get a team of willing volunteers together to 'personalise' them, i.e. wrap them individually and address them to each pupil. Please pray for her! She's been collecting the money to do this for quite a while now and has seen such gracious answers to prayer regarding finance. I am astonished at her bravery and thrilled that she has such a heart for the students and teachers in her college so as to give up all of what we might call 'good reputation' for the sake of the gospel.

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It's going to be one of the those weeks. The crammed full, hectic, spin-your-head-around weeks.

On Thursday I'm off to Rheinland-Pfalz for a weekend residential with my coursemates and some professors from university. It's really just a good chance to catch up with everyone, talk about grammar, translation and the like, as well as get a little more clued up on what will happen when we all get back to university.

Then on Sunday I'll be embarking on a two week trip to south Germany, then to Vienna, and up to Prague, whoooooo! I really can't wait! B and I thought that we'd use our two week easter holiday well and go travelling, seeing as by the time the school term restarts I only have one more month before I fly back to the UK. However, this all means that I really only have today and tomorrow to pack, get bits and pieces of work finished, attempt to finalise my plans for summer - which is going to be difficult seeing as the camp I'll be working on wants details of all the injections I had as a child - and I think I need to somehow get more of the MV website done. I have to give Nachhilfe (after-school help) to a student, lead the GDW Bible study, study japanese.... the list seems endless. Postal vote for the UK referendum... student finance too...ah.

It all just seems to spring up simultaneously! I can't really complain though when I have two weeks to do what I like. Still, I'd appreciate a bit of prayer as I tend to get slightly panicky and even more so as I just can't seem to get any headway with this website due to a lack of french resources. I'm not exactly the best qualified person for the job either and am seeing that now more than ever!

Remember:
'do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.' Philippians 4:6-7

Sinfonie der Herzen

I'm off to a ladies' conference tomorrow wahooo! And it's all in german, wahooo! And I have to be at the train station at 7am...er. A bit of a saturday morning killer I suppose, but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I'm heading off to Bad Gandersheim to the Bible School (Glaubenszentrum) there with my lovely friend Christina. It all sounds pretty good but you can't always tell with these things. The school itself seems pretty charistmatic, or at least it seemed so the last time I was there for a Prayer and Praise evening. But as to where they actually stand on some theological issues, I've yet to discover. It's good timing anyhow what with our GDW studies!

Not in vain.

' 'Therefore (in light of our eventual resurrection), my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.' (1 Corinthians 15:58)

How do we know that our labor in the Lord is not in vain? Because of our bodily resurrection. Just as we will be carried over from the old world to the new, so will our labor. In a sense, not only our bodies but our service for Christ will be resurrected.(...)

Bruce Milne writes, "Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavoured, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of tempatation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagment, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming." '

Randy Alcorn, Heaven, pp.133-134


- Waiting for that imperishable body and that ever-replenishing earth.

Just a thought.

' "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." '
Amos 5:22-24

-- God takes injustice seriously therefore so should we. How can we dare to praise His name, to enter into His holy presence while we are oppressing our neighbour? If the Lord had this against His chosen people, Israel, through whom the Messiah would come, how much more could He accuse us, christians, the gloriously redeemed people of God who are blessed to have not seen and yet to have believed, of injustice?
Ignorance is not an excuse.