Violet McLatchie

Circling The Square With The Gospel

I set out with apprehension but came home “buzzing”. I had been “compelled” to share the gospel in the Square in my local town ...

Violet McLatchie

Future Events & Eternity

Where Will You Spend Eternity?

Possibly, people do not realise how good the good news is because they do not realise how bad the bad news is.

Violet McLatchie

Future Events & Eternity

The Great 'I Am'. Not The Great 'I Was'.

The knowledge that the Lord is the great ‘I am’ rather than the great ‘I was’ gives me confidence as I read His word and pray – He is speaking into my situation today.

Violet McLatchie

Future Events & Eternity

Facing Suffering With An Eternal Perspective

"Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

Violet McLatchie

Future Events & Eternity

Moses' Swan Song

I learned recently that the term ‘swan song’ is based on the fable that a swan only sings once, immediately before its death.

Violet McLatchie

Future Events & Eternity

Awed By The Thought Of Eternity

The story of Duncan Matheson's long struggle with the thought of Eternity.

Violet McLatchie

Future Events & Eternity

Eternal Life is More Than a ‘Forevermore Life’

Eternal life is more than a future in heaven. It is the life of Christ within us, flowing through us.

Violet McLatchie

Future Events & Eternity

The Word That Was Written More Than 500,000 Times

"Eternity, Eternity, I wish that I could sound or shout that word to everyone in the streets of Sydney. You've got to meet it, where will you spend Eternity?"

Violet McLatchie

Being Human

Happy Hour

The people of God ought to be the happiest people in all the wide world! People should be coming to us constantly and asking the source of our joy and delight.

Violet McLatchie

Being Human

Out of This World

Solomon sets out to find happiness in a range of pursuits: wine, pleasure, culture, wealth. property, science, work. But he ends up in frustration.

Violet McLatchie

Being Human

Present Comfort

When I was 15, an “only child”, my 42-year-old mother died of cancer. At the time my mourning was “raw”, but even now, after so many years, I still mourn.

Violet McLatchie

Being Human

Where Do I Put My Trust?

Being a Scot, I often hear about Robert Murray M’Cheyne of Dundee. When he was 18 years old, his older brother died, an event which had a profound on him.

Violet McLatchie

Being Human

Happiness Depends on Happenstances

Officially, Finland is the “happiest” country in the world. The US and UK are 18th and 19th respectively, while Burundi languishes in 156th (last) place.

Violet McLatchie

Being Human

Happy or Right

Would you rather be happy than right? These stark alternatives are often presented to our young people by the “counsel of the ungodly”.

Violet McLatchie

Being Human

The Lord Saw and Listened

Poor Leah! It seems that she had a problem with her eyesight (Genesis 20:18 says that her “eyes were delicate”).

Violet McLatchie

Living in a Crisis

How to Cope When Your Daughter is a Frontline NHS Worker?

Someone asked me for my perspective as a Christian mother: “How do you cope in knowing that your daughter is one of the frontline workers in dealing with the effects of this virus?”

Violet McLatchie

Rapture ...

I recently noticed two house signs on the same street. One was a digital clock saying “Christmas Countdown ... Only 57 days, 8 hours, 43 minutes, 5 seconds”. The other was a name plaque: “Maranatha".

Violet McLatchie

Psalm 131: Childlike Trust

I identify with the Psalmist. Like a weaned child, my soul reaches out for the comfort of God.

Violet McLatchie

Living as a Christian

Nothing Less

“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”

Violet McLatchie

Living as a Christian

More Grace

“God hath not promised skies always blue, Flower strewn pathways all our lives through; God hath not promised sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.”

Violet McLatchie

Living as a Christian

No Hope

I reasoned that to fully appreciate how great our hope is, I would need to consider the negative: that is to say, what it is like to have “no hope”.

Violet McLatchie

Living as a Christian

Waiting and Watching

Having lost her sight as a baby, Fanny J Crosby wanted to reserve her first experience of sight for the day she would see her Saviour.

Violet McLatchie

Living as a Christian

Overflowing Hope

Does my hope overflow in the way Paul prayed it would for the early Roman Christians? Is my hope easily distinguished from the optimism or breezy disposition of the world?

Violet McLatchie

Living as a Christian

Faith

Faith and hope seem to be inextricably linked. Often, in scripture, they are joined by love.

Violet McLatchie

Living as a Christian

Perseverance

As a teenager, Joni Eareckson (now Tada) lay face down and helpless. She could easily have chosen to consign herself to the hopeless and “poor me” corner of life.

Violet McLatchie

Topics

Series

Authors

Circling The Square With The Gospel

Where Will You Spend Eternity?

The Great 'I Am'. Not The Great 'I Was'.

Facing Suffering With An Eternal Perspective

Moses' Swan Song

Awed By The Thought Of Eternity

Eternal Life is More Than a ‘Forevermore Life’

The Word That Was Written More Than 500,000 Times

Happy Hour

Out of This World

Present Comfort

Where Do I Put My Trust?

Happiness Depends on Happenstances

Happy or Right

The Lord Saw and Listened

How to Cope When Your Daughter is a Frontline NHS Worker?

Rapture ...

Psalm 131: Childlike Trust

Nothing Less

More Grace

No Hope

Waiting and Watching

Overflowing Hope

Faith

Perseverance