Last time, we read about Lorraine and Ali’s journey towards overseas mission. We talked about how ‘it’s best when goodbye means hello‘. Lorraine’s enthusiasm for the ministry she and her husband set up shines through in this description of Maranatha Christian Outreach Ministries. As I read it, I loved seeing how Lorraine’s understanding of God […]
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We used to read this storybook quite regularly when the children were little. It involved just a bear, a bird and some worms saying “hello” until the rain started and then they said “goodbye”. For those of us who tend towards being a little introverted, we sometimes wish all social events went a bit like
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Jacob’s wrestling with God in Genesis 32 has been of great encouragement to me recently. For some context, Jacob was in turmoil. He’d worked 14 years to marry the girl of his dreams, asked to establish his own life away from his father-in-law, and after being denied this uproots his life to return to the
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I’ve been exploring the whole idea of ‘mindfulness’ in more depth recently. There have been two books that have helped me with this, Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality by Tim Stead, who is an Anglican priest and Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Williams and Penman. This last one is described as a “life changing
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God can remind us of his power in our everyday lives. Recently, as I was scrolling through Facebook, the following post leapt out at me: Psalm 56:3-11 (AMP) When I am afraid, I will put my trust and faith in You. In God, whose word I praise; In God I have put my trust; I
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