Is it worth it?

01Oct09

This week we have been putting on lots of evangelistic events for the international students arriving at university. Sometimes when we put so much time and effort into events I can find myself lost in the busyness, and sometimes after it’s all over and I’m completely exhausted find myself thinking “Is it worth it?”. Sometimes [...]

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Battles of the mind

25Sep09

As Christians, especially those of us living in a Western culture, the majority of our  battles take place in our minds. Our culture feeds us a multitude of lies, twists good and evil on its head and condemns those who think differently. It is our ‘developed’, materialistic culture that has resulted in a mass of [...]

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Tags: battle, Bible, culture, individualistic, Jesus, John Piper, lies, materialism, media, memorizing scripture, selfish, spiritual warfare, temptation, truth, values, western culture

Hopes and Fears

15Aug09

In less than a year I will have graduated (hopefully!)…
I have no idea what I want to do, I have no idea what God wants me to do. I feel a lot of pressure to make the right decisions; the choices I make now could affect the rest of my life. It is hard to [...]

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Treasuring CHRIST!

14Jun09

Yes!! Let’s live with Christ as our treasure, and truly live as we were created to live. With GOD at the centre of everything. Lord, help us let go of our wordly idols.

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Do you treasure Jesus?

22May09

Have we truly recieved Jesus if we do not treasure Him?

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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

If only I could go back and make things right…

24Mar09

I went to the cinema yesterday. After 15 minutes of adverts enforcing the ‘importance’ of exterior beauty came the film trailers. Two of these trailers involved the characters being magically transported back in time to re-live part of their lives. I was struck by how similar the two films were, in terms of their [...]

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Tags: 17 again, adverts, cinema, culture, films, ghosts of girlfriends past, Jesus, Life, meaning of life, movies, past, re-live, relationship, satisfaction, trailers

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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Prosperity ‘gospel’

08Feb09

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The Priority of Prayer

20Jan09

We will all probably be quick to agree that we can’t do anything in our own strength, but need to wholly rely on God. But every time we go into something without prayer, we are relying on ourselves and not God.
On Sunday, I was reminded of this fact. Bill said that we would not attempt [...]

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