au
Discernment

Discernment

Discernment truly is a gift, in my own personal experience I’ve realised that discernment is having established a Biblical basis on the spiritual gift and importantly on how to exercise it..

  • Repentance to avoid judgment

    The Lord shows me many things about His Word through dreams, and a serious issue He has brought up before, and again recently, is the importance of repentance.

  • After hours…

    News.com recently ran an article from Germany where checking emails after work hours is so bad for your psychological state that it is considering banning it.

  • On Guard, on alert, and aware

    “The morning of December 7, 1941, found 353 Japanese airplanes swarming all around Pearl Harbour. Within a couple of hours, America lost 8 big battleships, 6 major airfields, almost all planes, and 2,400 men. That happened at 7:50 AM in what was supposedly a surprised attack. But these are the startling facts:

  • Winning is elusive. Hope is created together.

    I have learned something about Hope recently. Hope is not just wanting a way out, but actively searching and working out creatively for a way out. Hope requires a wish and others to join in that risk in wishing for hope. Like a team, together we creatively discover ways out of the hopelessness we are in.

  • Can I be bothered?

    When I was younger I can remember reading the book in the Bible known as James and thinking, ‘I’m going to try and ignore James for as long as possible.’ I’ve lived that thought. Well I’ve tried really hard to live that thought, but sometimes the things you try and ignore just keep getting in your way. James is often in my way.

  • The humble letter is coming back

    Recently it was my pleasure to sit down on a Saturday afternoon and turn on the television and scan through the channels to find something that may interest me, and sure enough on the Christian Channel I noticed a movie was about to start titled “The Letter Writer”.

  • Build my life

    One of the ways I like to focus my writing is to analyse the lyrics of a song; typically a worship song. I find this a good discipline that complements my service in my church’s worship ministry. I think, in the early days, this technique was taught to me as a way to go deeper with songs in the worship of our God.

  • Unbowed

    It was 1999 and I was in Year 6. Three years earlier the World Wide Web had been invented; Destiny’s Child dominated the sound waves; Michael Jordan, on his second round of retirement, was still the most sought after basketball trading card; Eminem released “My Name Is”, and an 11 year old girl named Danielle* made her first appearance at a private Christian school on the Gold Coast.

  • Waiting well

    I meet people all the time who are waiting… Waiting on something, waiting for that next job to come along, waiting for a promotion, waiting for a special someone, waiting for a baby.  But what I have learnt is at different seasons in our lives we are all waiting but not often do we wait well. 

  • Myth-making and abortion

    The more something is repeated, the more it comes to be regarded as fact. Social media is one of the best ways of manufacturing myths and repeating them.

  • Girls, goals, games and God

    I’m a straight, white, Christian male.