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Stay focused, stay obedient

Stay focused, stay obedient

2020 has brought just about 3 years worth of trouble.A year that will go down in the history books as one of the craziest years and will have the jaws of our children’s dropping as we retell the tales..

  • Timely Lessons from Tough Times

    How do you answer a 15-year-old who wants to know why God doesn’t help people in a pandemic?

  • LA's Nelson Cook writes on sportsmanship for kids from talk by St Louis Cardinal's Manager!

    Los Angeles Coaches of Influence guru Nelson Cook in his latest newsletter to his coaching charges from high school, college and professional sport coaches centers on a message from the St. Louis Cardinals Manager Mike Matheny on Sportsmanship for Kids

  • The truth found in jigsaws

    My husband, Ross, likes doing jigsaws, and the Covid-19 shutdown has allowed him to complete several. As I like to find spiritual parallels to earthly activities, I’m sharing three spiritual truths from jigsaws.

  • Jesus – God’s ‘selfie’?

    The church noticeboard was changed each week, to advertise the next Sunday sermon. I glanced at it as I usually do when I drove past on my way to a funeral. ‘Jesus – God’s selfie’ it read. Nah, I thought.

  • Selah.

    Raise your hand if you think that 2020 is the year that just keeps on giving! With all the activity going on in the world at large, it seems to be hard to find a moment to stop and gather your thoughts. If you’re anything like me, the last 6 months have been a blur, and finding a moment to pause and breathe has felt like grasping at straws.

  • Accusations no holds bar

    What we all witnessed on the television news and current affairs programs back in 2019 which continued on into January and February with President Trump’s with the accusations by the Democrats for the Russian conspiracy and then the Ukraine affair is all too common.

  • Surviving winter blues

    With cardigans and woolly knits appearing in abundance, hot water bottles being dug out of cupboards and foggy windows misting during drives home, it’s obvious that we’re now well and truly into the winter season. 

  • Close to 800,000 homes led by sole mothers

    Whoa  -  say that again !  The figure was 743,000 families in 2015  -  families headed up by solo mothers in Australia which begs the question, today 2020 almost 800,000 horrible men, or is there some other so obvious issue staring us in the face.

  • Remember This

    I was reading recently that in the Bible, the word “remember” occurs over 250 times. In the original language this was both in Hebrew and Greek. Many times, especially in the Torah (first five books of the Bible constituting the Law), the context is God teaching and imploring the Israelites to remember.

  • Florence Young and the Kanakas

    The Queensland Kanaka Mission had received a request for help from a place where cannibalism is very much alive. Who would be willing to go and maybe risk their life to help tell the cannibals about the love of God?

  • Where do we draw the line?

    Drug doping is sadly so common in elite sports that every year dozens of athletes test positive resulting in the loss of titles and temporary if not life long bans from the sport.