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Dear God can I have?

Dear God can I have?

I had an interesting coffee and catch up with a person who is fast-becoming a friend that I trust. I was introduced to her via my sister (thankyou !) and we have been able to share stories of God and his faithfulness to us both, as well as  struggles and triumphs..

  • Faith over feelings

    It seems apparent to me as if the world we live in encourages us to be led by emotion and feelings.

  • Going Well Beyond Blue Part 1

    How can Australian’s ‘go well beyond blue?’ In other words, how can we decisively win the battlefield of the mind and even see revolutionary break throughs in areas of mental health?  

  • From a wresting Christian – what about the Bible?

    In March of 2018 I wrote an article titled “From a Wrestling Christian – Do you have deep conversations?” To spare you from reading it, the main gist was that we (as human beings who have all experienced difficult things), don’t really want to have a conversation that bridges those challenging subjects.

  •  The biggest challenge to the 21st century church    

    The world has changed. Gone are the days when you could say the word “marriage” and know the genders of the persons involved. In many countries you can no longer assume that a person that stands before you is male or female.  Homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism aren’t just accepted, they are fads, media obsessed and in many cases school-taught fads.

  • Philosophical ideas

    In a News.com article on attitudes and approaches that will hold up a woman's career, sets out some clear philosophical ideas that having reflected upon them, apply equally to the way in which Christians approach evangelism.

  • Death by Indifference, May it Never Be.

    A few years back, when the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, portrayed Muhammad naked, rioting around the globe was ignited. The ensuing Muslim mass protests demonstrated to the world that they found this depiction of their prophet seriously insulting, and evinced their determination to see the honour of their prophet restored.

  • A Promise is still a comfort

    Recently I had the privilege of witnessing my second oldest sister exchange marriage vows with the man who had been courting her for the last 3 years. As I sat and looked at the procession, the respective parts as they seamlessly came together, and the major part- the wedding vows, the laughs, the jokes, the song selections and a sense of pomp and exuberance brought the whole ceremony to a crescendo.

  • Trust me in the unknown

    If I had a tagline for my life, this would be it. It’s the phrase God’s spoke time and time again. Today’s no different. Again his patient voice says, “Trust me in the unknown”.

  • Supporting the Very Fast Train

    The Footplate Padre has received some correspondence on his previous articles on the Very Fast Train (VFT). In essence, his argument raised the question of the infrastructure cost of any separate VFT line making the NBN proposals look like kindergarden toys and that the population equation did not match either Europe, Japan or China.

  • A call to the altar

    With radical Islam, lawlessness, and immorality on the rise in today’s society, we need a radical move of God to reshape the minds of men. We must get rid of the escape mentality. We’ve got a job to do on this earth and we must do it while it is day.

  • A severe mercy

    I find Christianity confusing and paradoxical in a lot of ways. For example: we have to die to live, and that death looks like something different for each person. A death of each individual dream and desire, given to Jesus for His glory. I assumed that maybe if I had “good” dreams then God wouldn’t ask me to give them up or deny myself; death is terrifying and painful, and I’d rather avoid it.