CHRISTIANS FOR CHRIST

About the Book

CHRISTIANS FOR CHRIST is a collection of personal spiritual musings . Each small section is essentially Independent. The text may be absorbed from cover to cover or by simply dipping in and out of separate sections. Within the text various entries refer to -

JESUS CHRIST

MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS

ST. MARCELLIN CHAMPAGNAT

ST. MARY MACKILLOP

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION OF YOUTH

THE CHURCH INSTITUTION

CHRISTIAN APPROACH TO LIFE and CHRISTIAN UNITY .

These sections are not independently documented. The thinking behind this and the lack of punctuation is to me a reflection of the nature of personal spirituality which is very much a living organism constantly growing and always multi-faceted and integrated with the complexities of the Christian individual living life here on earth along with the very many other Christians. I hope this part of my own spiritual journey documented with the strong influence of the Holy Spirit is helpful to readers particularly with respect to our personal relationship with Jesus Christ. This is dedicated to my mother Elisabeth who passed away January 25 2012.

Jim Timmermans Cert. Ed. Dip. Tch. Grad. Dip. R.Ed. M.Ed. (JCU). Jan. 2012. Brisbane. QLD.

About the Author

Jim Timmermans has been a school teacher for over forty years. A major part of his work has been with Christian Education. He is continuing this work on a part-time basis. Spirituality for Jim has always been strong in his life and in recent years he has taken to writing as a form of prayer. His priority is to come to know and love Jesus better and very much to assist others to do so. His major interests which receive attention in this work include Jesus Christ, Our Lady, The Trinity, The Church, Christian living, Christian education, Christian unity, St. Mary MacKillop and St. Marcellin Champagnat. All of his life has been in the Catholic Church where he spent twenty years in the Marist Brothers teaching order. His overriding interest and mission is Christian unity. Jim has a Masters degree in Education and previously represented New South Wales in shot-put and Queensland in amateur boxing as a heavyweight. With his wife Maureen and daughter Brooke he lives in Brisbane in the state of Queensland in Australia. He is emphatic about crediting the Holy Spirit for working through him to produce “ Christians for Christ”.