Your beliefs travels with you
In our current context, I find an idea at work, working like leaven through the whole dough. Even Christians have bought into it. It is slowly affecting our ideas and beliefs..
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Perception
I couldn\'t figure it out. It was a pretty simple thing, and I didn\'t understand why it couldn\'t work.
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Can we find rest in times of pain?
You wake up one day and it suddenly dawns on you that you will never see your wife again. She lost her battle to that dreadful disease called cancer and you just don\'t know how you will live without her.
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The usefulness of the Gospel
A shift has occurred. Undoubtedly, the church desires the gospel, but is it for different reasons altogether - than what - the gospel was meant to establish?
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Not for loss
One morning I was scrolling through my Facebook feeds and noticed a post by one of my colleagues. Now, Facebook has this annoying feature where parts of a video are played to the extent that you see things that you really wish you never saw.
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Awkward evangelism
On my top ten list of fears, next to wasps, shark attacks and missing clearance sales, was evangelism. The mere idea of walking up to a stranger and handing them a pamphlet or asking them in an intrusive monotone if I could share with them about Jesus made me feel nauseous.
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Australian women's sport forging ahead
History reveals there has always been a strong showing of Australian women in sport. We can think back to post war Olympics with famous sports women such as Marjorie Jackson, Betty Cuthbert, Dawn Fraser. Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Shane Gould, Kathy Freeman and Sally Pearson (to name but a few).
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Overcoming lust
I need to provide an update on the hot Italian who graced my office floor with his presence for about two months.
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The first time I kissed my husband was at the altar
I remember the day well; it was an unusually warm winter February day in snowy Canada. We were surrounded by family and friends and before God when I married my best friend, Tim.
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The land is alive!
When you look out of your window, and see sky, land, ocean, trees - or perhaps masses of houses - have you ever thought of these things as being alive?
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In defense of an 'entertaining' Jesus
It has become quite typical in this day and age to complain about life online rather than to anyone real that could actually do something about it. Christians are in no way immune to this temptation, and often some of the worst offenders.
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How do I know heaven is real?
\'If heaven is for real it would change my life\' a teenager recently told me. He asked, \'How do you know heaven and hell are real? If I saw evidence that heaven is real then I\'d change my life\'.