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The Push up Challenge

The Push up Challenge

Four years I have been a parent. 12 Years I have been a teacher. Gone are the fancy-free days of my youth. The fast metabolism that never ended. The natural fitness and athleticism that my body possessed..

  • School aged young people camping

    Covid 19 has put a stop to school camps. Earlier in the year my oldest grand daughter (11) went on her very first school camp. I think my daughter (her mother), was more a drama Queen than was anyone else, except for her grand-father – me.

  • Expectation about the future

    Human beings are always curious about what will happen in future. Most of us still make our minds have positive expectations for the future. But as it says, life is uncertain.

  • Making sense of suffering (Part 2)

    In my previous article, I closed by stating some truths that I believe to be evident about God using supporting texts in the scriptures. My essential point was the presence of suffering does not negate the goodness and love of God.

  • The missing piece of the puzzle

    Some of us who have the luxury of not risking our lives working overtime as frontline workers have been confronted with a ghastly shock: our newly freed-up schedules are not being filled with more devotions, bible studies, prayer or fasting. More time has not equated to more time with God.

  • Faith, food and fasting

    If we don't spend much time thinking and reflecting about the different parts of our lives and how they relate to our discipleship journey it is easy to adopt the dominant values of the society around us.

  • Thoughts on passing the time and re-opening

    It seems that people have many different ideas on how the world should begin to re-open. It varies from those who think that staying at home is killing the economy or doing more harm to the people that suffer from depression than the virus is actually doing.

  • Oh No - theology and politics

    In 2020 hindsight history reveals without too much difficulty that religious belief has been the well-spring of philosophical thought so as to engage in military conflict. The ancients let alone the Old Testament reveal this as did Rome.

  • Baddie shot dead by Police

    Across Australia over the past 24 months there have been numerous ‘baddies’ who have been ‘shot dead’ by police. This article specifically looks at this subject.

  • Enoch - A pattern for the last days believers

    Enoch lived in one of the darkest times in human history. There was the rise of the Nephilim as angels came down to sleep with the daughters of men.

  • Broadcast your life before God

    It seems that people today, in this age of fast tempo, prefer quick and short visual stimulation rather than considered reading and deep thinking.  To meet this demand, there have been dozens of instant messaging applications developed in recent years, many of them in China.  For example, Tik Tok is regarded as the most influential one.

  • Wuhan we’ve had a problem

    Anyone who has watched the Apollo 13 movie will remember the famous line.