At the heart of Gwen’s Book of Dreams is my call by God to a ministry that I am yet to walk into. I received this call to ministry many years ago but, even though I said yes to God then, a part of me has always been afraid, and has always been resisting. I have never really felt qualified for what I am called to do and the thought of speaking publicly, before an audience, has always terrified me……
Many times over the years we mournfully asked each other these questions in song, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?” Of course no one expects a response. We were simply sorrowing deeply over the crucifixion of our Lord but, today, I have a bold response for you. No. I was not there when they crucified our Lord! I was not there when they nailed Him to the tree……
Gwendolyn Cotterell-Eidukonis was born in April 1964 in Jamaica, West Indies. Her parents, both farmers, lived in the country on a small farmland in a little village called Peace River. Gwendolyn is from a very large family and is the seventh of twelve children. Following her graduation from Bellefield Secondary School, Gwendolyn went to work at a local chocolate manufacturing company as accountant assistant. While there she attended West Indies College part-time and received an associate degree in business administration…..
How does one even begin to come to terms with the catastrophic flooding and the awful aftermath caused by Hurricane Harvey down in Houston and surrounding neighborhoods in Texas this past week? This flooding of biblical proportion is unprecedented in Texas and historic within all of the United States. No one expected this to happen here, ever! Rainfalls accumulations of more than 50 inches submerging countless homes and businesses, water running like rivers in the city streets and freeways with…..
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are amazingly spectacular and greatly to be desired. However, as the apostle Paul hastened to point out, without love, these gifts, awesome as they may be, are profitable for nothing. “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all…..
God’s gifts to the Church are many and diverse. He gives spirituals gifts to believers at will and gifts people to the Church for the benefit of all. In 1st Corinthians chapters 12 through 14, the apostle Paul enlightened us concerning these gifts. Sign Gifts and Benefits of the Holy Spirit “For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to…..