Tag: Reflection
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What’s Your Grounding?
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you! It’s a treasure, a wonderful mystery, and it’s been planted in your heart. God has chosen to reveal himself to all of you and that is such an honour. Often, the word of God, to those who perhaps don’t have a faith yet,…
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Self-Glory | A Reality Check
A journal entry from 9.1.16 – something I reserved for a gracious day like today. Consumed. I’m so consumed. Consumed in the self-controlling, future-planning craze of heart. It’s as if this week, my heart’s been won. Won by the world’s idea of a wonderful life and deprived from the truth. I’ve had to fight exam…
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Advancing Church
Advancing church perhaps, sounds a little trivial – isn’t church just somewhere we go to worship? Or should we be taking advantage of our time there for growth, reflection and direction? If so, how exactly can we advance our Sundays? I want to talk about a time, before Jesus, and a story that can be…
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How Can God Be Good?
Last weekend, I took a road trip and in the car on the way home, I read my readings for the day. As I rode down country lanes in the dark, God opened my heart to something often found to be challenging. Why is it that people don’t always get the ‘good stuff’ that they…
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Embracing the F Word
Recently, I found myself in the company of a friend who simply wanted to talk; I listened. Perhaps at first, I worried, doubting whether I had the wisdom or not to pursue any thoughts… As we sat, under the stars (quite literally within the borders of a camp site), fireworks shot into the sky, and…
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Encounter | Mary
Welcome back to the second part of the encounter series where we’ll be looking at Luke 1:26-56 where a young girl Mary has a life changing encounter… I’ve always overlooked this bible passage, but recently, God has been revealing so much to me about bible passages such as this one. And since it’s all about…