Sandyknowes Blog

Living beside the busiest roundabout in Northern Ireland gives plenty of opportunity for watching the world go by. Sandyknowes Blog is the personal blog of Niall Lockhart (minister of Ballyhenry). Pull in and have a read…

Read: Psalm 63 vs 1-11

When you think of meeting with God, listening to Him and worshipping Him, where do you think of? For many of us our minds immediately go to ‘church’, a building in Ballyhenry or somewhere else that has many memories that encourage us or strengthen us in our faith.

Read: Psalm 62 vs 1-12

How long? This is a question that very naturally comes to mind when we are in a difficult and ongoing situation. It’s a question that David is asking in today’s Psalm (vs 3). David’s in a situation where he feels ‘assaulted’ and ‘thrown down’ (vs 3). He pictures himself on a height, but a height from which it would be easy for him to be knocked down (vs 4).

Read: Psalm 61 vs 1-8

I was sorting through some photographs recently and came across a picture I had taken in Donaghadee. It was a picture of the lighthouse. On a bright and calm day a lighthouse can very easily be taken for granted. It’s something that’s always been there, something that’s familiar, something to maybe even take a picture of.

Read: Psalm 60 vs 1-12

There is much to learn in the life of faith. Indeed in both the Old and New Testaments the life of God’s people is described as a life of learning, learning as we follow. God’s people are always learners as they journey through the changing seasons of life on their way to God’s final place of promise and rest.

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