Thought For The day 73

This year's Shoe Box appeal is more urgent than at any other time. We have seen more people in this country having to use food banks to supplement their weekly shop, but this doesn't happen in the countries which Link to Hope support.As in previous years, I am more than happy for anyone who finds it difficult to put a box together, to give me a cash donation enabling me to purchase...

Rom sifts through another tricky passage of Paul's writings in 1 Timothy 5:1-16 to focus on still very relevant messages for Christ's church today.Widows, Elders and Slaves1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. 3 Give proper recognition...

Guarding the truth is Donna's topic and the reading is 1 Timothy 4:1-16.1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which...