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Chronic Illness Woes
“Behind every chronic illness is just a person trying to find their way in the world. We want to find love and be loved and be happy just like you. We want to be successful and do something that matters. We’re just dealing with unwanted limitations in our hero’s journey.” — Glenn Schweitzer
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Wear your spiritual face mask
There has been one definite benefit I have gained from all the enforced mask wearing – I haven’t caught even a single mild case of cold since wearing these awful and dreadful face masks since last year.
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The problem with baptism
I remember the planning that went into it. I was a 15year old on-fire-for-Jesus Christian who had a holy encounter with God at a church camp. Typical stuff. I was convinced that God was wanting me to get baptised. This was the “next logical step” in my “Christian walk” and nothing was going to stop me.*
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Editorial decisions
Christian Editors are faced every day with good options but must select one article for the key feature spot in their publication. More of this later.
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Passing the pressure test without the cracks!
What pressures are assailing you? Has wear and tear due to trials been causing distinct emotional fatigue and cracks? Difficulties due to your finances, marital issues, kids, covid19, ministry dead ends, etc...?
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Silent witness of the gizzard
We now have some beautiful rosellas feeding in our backyard. They have them too.
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Uncertainty is the new normal
The Kodak company was once synonymous with photography. The company was founded in 1892 and dominated the photography market throughout the 20th century. It was once common to describe a picture-perfect opportunity as a ‘Kodak moment.’
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“Embrace the pain”
One of the most predictable things human beings are likely to suffer is pain. If there is objective truth, it’s that The Lord of the Rings is the best film series ever made, and that anyone who has lived has experienced pain of some kind.
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Fog – Rest and Abide
Rest and Abide the Father says. With COVID it can be hard at times to find rest, and things may seem somewhat confusing. It is easy to feel foggy and the sense of not knowing what is happening in a world.
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War then Peace
Post WWI there was a long armistice from 1918 to 1939 to the European civil war that broke out among its member states in August 1914. This European civil war came to an end when two outsider nations, namely US and Russia met on the Elbe River in May 1945.
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Street Preaching – You can do it!
Although this method of Gospel-sharing is mostly misunderstood and rejected by much of the church these days (in favour of so called ‘better’ ways), street-preaching was THE method the Holy Spirit chose and the Early Church used to spread the Good News.
