Christmas Approaches!

A really busy time for Ekklesia?

Each one of us has the challenge of pulling something new out of the story that by tradition seems to be fixed and at that it in its own right is a tremendous one, but there are many part to it that can be added depending on who one is preaching too?

When we look at this story we are seeing the fulfilment of Jewish history and we know that in that brief time of some thirty four years, his own people rejected Him, but since thirty three AD the way and the Ekklesia just keeps on growing and spreading out and now we live in an age that allows us to see it recovering older areas that have died lack to keep sharing Jesus?

Christmas is also a time when we see the dregs of society, the self-opinionated and the good people come to fellowship with us for plethora of reasons, sometimes guilt, other memory of childhood, others just like the atmosphere without the reality and others still in despair of life?

Numbers 24:17, Matthew 2:2, 9-10, 2 Peter 1:19.

Unions?

Workers Rights!

Many Christians get upset about being in a Union, they claim it is not Christian because its based on atheism and Socialism? But these many probably own their own businesses and have never been poor or working class?

Today many jobs are open contracts, with open hours and people can loose their jobs as quickly as they got them! Hours are long and breaks few, the work is demanding and tedious and it is hard to believe writing this one could be talking about the social history of Britain in the 19th Century?

The Bible teaches us that we should be fare to our workers and care for them, instead of being greedy and bragging about what we have! God sees the plight of the oppressed and the poor and He will over rule the unjust!

This message is directed at well to do believers, who believe they can get away with their sins, perhaps they might consider some of the rich fools mentioned in the New Testament and take a leaf out of their book as a warning!

Job 20:19,  Psalm 9:9,  Luke 12:18,  16:22-23,  2 Corinthians 6:4,  Ephesians 6:6,  1 Peter 2:16.