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Dealing with discouragement

Dealing with discouragement

Disappointment is one of life\'s most uncomfortable feelings. It niggles at us, stealing our joy and dulling our passion for life. .

  • Aliens and Angels

    In recent months, the conversation around increasing New Zealand\'s quota for UNHCR refugees has gained exciting momentum.

  • Did you have to go away?

    When a person who holds a significant place in your life moves away it can be a hard time adjusting to life without them around.

  • More than a product.

    Since my last column, where I talked about the ups and downs of being a Melbourne supporter, they have done their best to illustrate my point.

  • The Bible says what?

    Truth is whatever I would like it to be. Morality and truth are based off my personal convictions, not dictated by anyone or anything else.

  • Dying to control

    I was driving to work yesterday when a radio advertisement for a funeral home summoned my attention.

  • Are you spending too much time in church?

    Are Christians encouraged to spend too much time in church?

  • The sum of the parts

    The materialist has a neat enough worldview—a closed-system of sorts. The physical world is observable, and only the observable need be explainable.

  • But… God is Love, isn't He?

    We hardly need to read a dictionary to know what suffering is. Every single day of our lives shows us what it means. It\'s inescapable. It stares us in the face.

  • The flavour of faith is rest

    I have to clean myself up. I need to stop sinning with as much effort as I can. I need to press deeper and further towards God so he will accept and love me more. So that my salvation will be assured. That I may be presented holy and blameless before God.

  • Should kids go to funerals?

    Death and grief are substances adults often struggle with. So how about children facing these same realities at a funeral? Should we take kids to funerals?

  • Shackleton: 100 Years on

    This year marks the 100thanniversary of Ernest Shackleton\'s Antarctic adventure.