Elijah James Ocean's Baptism Day

We had an amazingly wonderful day today, Elijah was Baptised at St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the 9.15am service.  He was so well behaved, the only slight glitch being when his Mum, Lisa, had to hold him backwards over the font, he sort of objected to that.  He sang along with the hymns and after all the prayers he said 'Amen'.  He is just the most gorgeous little boy and we all adore him.  I am attaching a few of the photos we & our friends took yesterday, some of them (mine anyway) are a bit grainy as taken with my mobile phone camera, would you believe it I forgot to take my camera to the church - old brain disease!!

Why go to Church?

If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope!

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them.  So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this ... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.  Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing... God is UP to something!

Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the Impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment! All right, now that you're done reading, send it on! I think everyone should read this! "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me please?"