God is good!

25Jun09

So, I’ve finished all my exams, second year is nearly over…which means I may get a chance to write all those posts I’ve been meaning to for months and months! Maybe.
God has been so amazing this year. I look back to this time last year and I can see how I’ve grown with Him and [...]

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Tags: blessings, exams, God, goodness, love, Psalm 31, stress

Put your money where your mouth is

04May09

Half the world lives on $2 or less a day.
At least 80% of the world lives on less than $10 a day.
The remaining 20% (that’s us) earn a VAST amount more – we earn more in a week than most people in the world will earn in a year.
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s [...]

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Tags: comfort, consumerism, culture, excess, God, God's heart for the poor, injustice, Jesus, luxury, materialism, money, poor, poverty, society, waste, wealth

The macbook is dead

27Feb09

I don’t have a laptop. Hence no posts for a while :(
I am saddened by the fact my MAC gave up on me. It’s a mac, it’s not meant to do this!!
And instead of taking it to Apple I took it to some random guy in Leam who doesn’t seem to know what he’s [...]

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New Priest, New Covenant, New Life

10Feb09

Hebrews 8:
The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man. Every high priest is appointed to offer both [...]

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Tags: Bible, Christianity, covenant, cross, God, good news, good works, gospel, hebrews, high priest, Jesus, Jews, judgement, legalism, love, New Testament, Old Testament, religious, ritualism, sacrifice, sin

Be Still

27Jan09

Be Still, and know that I am God. – Psalm 46:10

Life doesn’t get much better than when you follow that advice. Just letting go of all the stress, worries, fears, regrets, concerns etc etc of your day and opening yourself fully to God. Just listening, not talking. Just saying, I am here, I am open [...]

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Aiming to worship creator not creation

06Jan09

Martin Luther explained that if we keep the first two of the ten commandments
“You shall have no other gods before  me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.  You shall not bow down to them or worship [...]

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Tags: creation, creator, Exodus, freedom, God, idols, Jesus, Life, lust, Mark Driscoll, Martin Luther, sex, sin, ten commandments, trust, worship

The Shack

05Jan09

I haven’t actually read this book in it’s entirety, but I’ve read enough for it to worry me. What worries me most is that many Christians are buying copies of this book in bulk and giving it to their non-Christian friends in the hope it will interest them in Christianity and maybe lead them to [...]

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Tags: Books, God, heresy, Jesus, Mark Driscoll, the shack, trinity, William P Young

Joy

04Nov08

As Christians, we can be joyful even in the hard times. We can have joy even when we are unhappy. The joy of the Lord is unlike any other kind of joy or happiness. It is a joy that permeates all things, a joy that endures, a joy that survives. A God-given joy.
Despite this, I [...]

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Tags: blessing, feelings, God, habakkuk, happiness, joy, love, praise

Holding nothing back

28Oct08

I want to do amazing things, I want to do radical things – for God- not just sit and worry about what might happen or be restrained by regret and guilt about what has gone before.
Each day is a gift, and I want to make the most of every second. And I can, because Jesus [...]

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Tags: blessings, Christian lifestyle, faith, God, grace, Jesus, Life, life plan, living life to the full, purpose, surrender

God has spoken!

12Oct08

You know, it just hit me this morning that we have available to us the actual words of GOD!
God, the omniscient, omnipresent, Creator of the universe God! I realised how mindblowing that is.
How can we treat God’s Word with such little respect at times, how did we become so complacent, why aren’t we excited to [...]

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