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Godly friends

Godly friends

In the frenzy of followers, fans, and frenemies, godly friends are unfortunately a dying breed. With the rise of technology, interpersonal relationships are pushed to the “awkward” categories of life. Today, it’s normal to feel uncomfortable with a simple face-to-face conversation without a smart gadget in hand..

  • Calculated  -  even prevention 

    The nature of prevention has now been calculated in this transport reality and the question is whether other prevention roles can be likewise given a dollar value.

  • Jihad’s returning

    A feared scenario: three friends left their homes in the West (could have been Britain, The Netherlands, Australia ….) to join Jihad in the middle east. And join they did.

  • Men aren’t the problem, people are

    The world isn’t as it should be. You only need to go online or open any newspaper and you’ll see stories about people being victimised; taken advantage of by those in power over them. This is abhorrent and is an aberration of how the world is meant to be.

  • Gratitude as a weapon

    Being thankful is more than just posting on social media about the good things in your life (#blessed). As Christians, we have such reasons for giving thanks! We don’t thank the universe; we give thanks to God – the Creator and Sovereign of the entire universe who gives us both good things to enjoy and hard things to endure.

  • Community: The magic that happens when people press in

    I heard a report recently about a displaced nation of people who had transformed into a community of deeply connected individuals while living in a war torn nation in spite of their religious and cultural differences. Owning nothing and living long term in refugee camps, they’ve had the revelation that love is transforming.

  • Are we really allowed to be angry at God?

    “I’m trying not to be angry at God.”

  • Recognising the Lordship of your life

    Above all other titles the Lord can be seen as our father, son, friend. The first thing we see the enemy do in Genesis Chapter 3 when he refers to Lord God as just God; is to deny God's lordship, his supremacy, his rulership.

  • Frightening – children vanishing

    I recall a Sydney Morning Herald ran a frightening story on how likely it is that our children will walk away with a stranger and under stringent controlled experiment 85% of the kids took the bait.

  • Our practical desires from the Lord

    What are our desires from the Lord? I will never forget the time that I was in Goa, on the west coast of India. I had taken a train there which is a story in itself. I arrived at this beach that I think was called Colva. It was quite a pretty beach and there were many western tourists there, not many of them were very friendly though.

  • The durian gospel

  • Bushfire season is upon us

    Australia it seems has a third certainty apart from the old adage of taxes and death, and this is that every summer the nation experiences bush fires and inevitably homes are destroyed, burnt to the ground.