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Compassionate considerations

Compassionate considerations

My heart and life was overwhelmed and I was ultimately tired of explaining my plight to another Christian who would just quote a well-known scripture and tell me what sounded right. I had just accepted that no one would understand me and that this dark cloud looming over my head would soon devour me whole..

  • Living as a Christian in a Persecuted Country

    According to the latest report from Open Doors USA, being a Christian in Vietnam is definitely not easy.

  • An unexpected fire

    “The residential building in front of our apartment was on fire. I was about to run out in case it spread to our apartment. Do you have anything valuable that I could grab for you?” My roommate called when I was on my way back from our annual church retreat.

  • It’s Time For Your Lunchtime Story: “The Wrath of Mummy Power”

    Let me tell you a story. And it’s a true story about ordinary mums doing extraordinary things. After you’ve listened to this story you’ll be amazed at what mummy-wrath can do.

  • Perfection, planning, and prayer

     I don’t know about all of you, but I like being perfect. Or at least, I like to present to the world that I’m perfect. I like making the right decisions, posting the right pictures, having the right friends, and planning my whole life so nothing will surprise or hurt me. Perhaps this is a generational mindset or a deep-seated lie, but I think that perfection will keep me safe and fulfill me, and that all I have to do to achieve the life I want is to plan it out and then follow through.

  • Love, more than a feeling

    It goes without saying that globalisation and social media have changed the world as we known it.

  • My many thanks to you, Grace Community Church

    Three years ago, I cried, no I bawled, at the fact that we were going to move our family so my husband could attend The Masters Seminary. The thought of leaving our dear friends, family and church and uprooting ourselves to no other place than what I was convinced was Sodom and Gomorrah (Los Angeles). I was moving from a town of 10,000 people to a city of 10 million.

  • But What if I didn’t marry the “Right Person”?

    In my little island Jamaica marriage is on the decline, as more and more young people witness the ugliness of divorce between couples who just can’t seem to reconcile their differences.

  • If you’re not comforted by Revelation you’re reading it wrong

    Until I came to university I used to think that Revelation was equal parts scary and confusing but at least it was at the end of the Bible so you could somewhat avoid it for the most part.

  • The Blood of the Martyrs- seed for the harvest

    Tertullian, one of the early Church fathers of the second century coined the term, “the blood of the martyrs is seed for the church.” No doubt, anytime the church has faced persecution, she has always increased. The early Church was greatly persecuted yet there was an incredible harvest of souls. There seems to be a connection between martyrdom and the harvest. God had to sow his only son to reap the world.

  • Railway letter spot on

    As the Footplate Padre I received a letter from Barry Blair the editor of Inside Rail E-News from his New England area and was interested to read the writer's issue about passenger trains to and from Sydney.

  • What is your profession?

     We’ve all heard that phrase before, the triumphant chant of a Sunday worship service, celebrating the confidence of God’s protection for His people. I personally have repeated it multiple times in the context of prayer, a prophetic word, examining a Bible verse or even a pep talk to myself every once in a while when I need my faith to come from hearing the word (even if the word uttered with my own voice).