I have just been looking at Abigail’s wonderful collection of African photos on her ‘facebook’. She is following in the footsteps her father, Dr. Albert Chambers, who has ministered to multitudes of African, men women and children during his Crusades in Kenya. Pastors and laymen from Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda travelled many miles to attend those meetings too.

It was good to see Abi’s smiling face among the many children, both at the Orphanage in Ogbomoso and among the families in outlying villages. Her brother Alexander, friend Angela Owusu and Gerry Blezard were also good companions to travel with and together they accomplished much in the short time there. The trip was a great encouragement to Sister Lara, the Founder and Administrator of the Orphanage.

September has brought with it the beginning of our seventeenth (!) Autumn Term for Paragon Christian Academy and of course the beginning of the seventeenth Academic year of this great institution! We are so grateful to God for His guiding and guarding Hand all down the years and for the many students that have graduated and gone on to Universities and subsequently to fulfilling employment. Five of whom are now themselves either full time teachers in PCA or giving some of their time and expertise in the school curriculum. That’s good ’seeding off’ friends. Keep this Ministry in your prayers; it really is a working one.

As Senior Pastor for the assemblies of World Vision for Christ and for Paragon Christian Academy I am very conscious of the great responsibility upon me.

Each day I talk to all the students of PCA. This new year their ages range from 31/2 to 16+. That is a vast difference in understanding and of course the ability of concentrate. But even children as young a 3 can remember and that is why it is good to instill in them the Word of God. Their young minds can and do retain God’s Word.

My theme to start the 2009/2010 academic year it: Christ the centre of the school. We are Paragon CHRISTIAN Academy. I then talked about the Spartans, the Greeks, and the Jews. How the Spartans developed their physical strength and might, they made this the centre of their society. The Greeks put philosophy at the centre of their society, both failed. However, we look at the Jews, a race of people we can recognise whatever nation they are in, a people that have been persecuted and almost wiped out, and say: what is it that these people have that keeps them? Theology – God at the centre. The Jews, in the main, recognise there is a Creator.

And so, each day since school resumed I have emphasised CHRIST is the centre of our school and our curriculum.

In my watching and reading of news I observe how sadly lacking our own society has become. Christ is no longer the centre of our education system (hence it being called ’secular’). He is no longer acknowledged in our health & social care, our police and law establishments, parliament, our prisons and our financial institutions. In fact Christians, who work in these establishments, are being hounded more and more for sharing their faith and offering hope, by those above them. How strange this is, when all of the above were started by Christian reformers. It was when there was an acknowlegement of a Creator that these places were good and showed integrity.

Dear reader, made Christ THE centre of your home, your family and indeed your very life. Without Him everything will crumble and fail.

To follow in the footsteps of the Master is to obtain the same power that He Himself demonstrated. He has made it possible.

We, who were weak are made strong by His strength.

We who were sinners are made righteous by His righteousness

We who were sick are made healthy by His health

We who were afraid are made confident by His faith

We who were uncertain are made certain by the certainty of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.

 

As for me, my aim is for the mansion in the sky and whilst I live and breath on this earth I will do as much as I can in the Kingdom of God.

Wimbledon Fever’ has gripped many, (including the writer) nevertheless we must never lose sight of the priority; seeking first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. This very morning the post contained a newsletter from the Nigerian Orphanage that we sponsor, and blazoned across the front in large letters it read ‘KINGDOM BUSINESS’. It detailed all that has happened there since our last communication; it was full of news of work amongst the children and outreaches to many other children beyond the Orphanage.

Friend, what is your priority? Take time to answer that one. Remember only that which is done for Christ will last, everything else will be classed ‘wood, hay and stubble’. Friends, let’s keep our eyes on the prize, and ensure that we too are fully engaged in “Kingdom Business.”

Currently Dr Chambers is preaching on the following at Paragon Chapel, London E5

Psalm 5 “Give ear to my words, O Lord consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my KING and my GOD for unto Thee will I pray. My voice shalt Thou hear in the morning, O LORD in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee and will look up”

GOD – our politics … My KING (ruler of our lives). GOD – our religion … My GOD (one God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ)

GOD – our occupation … unto Thee will I pray (pray without ceasing).

“This I recall to my mind,  therefore have I hope.

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed,

because his compassion’s fail not.

They are new every morning:  great is thy faithfulness.”

The subject I have been focussing on is, “The Body without the Spirit is Dead.“ I’m giving special attention to the fact that the spirit inside a person is the thing that really is driving them…. the body is not the driving force in a person’s life – it is merely the vehicle. 

Personal Application? Your spirit is what drives you.
Wider Application? The Holy Spirit is needed in the Church (which is His Body) to enable it to function according to God’s Holy purposes.

Come and hear with more detail and it will affect your life for the good.