It’s five in the morning and I’m sitting at my study desk. I’ve woken early and decided not to waste my time lying in bed, despite the temptation of snuggling under a warm doona for another hour until my alarm plays the melody that signals the beginning of my generally frenetic morning routine. Despite my …
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Devotional | Home, Home on the Range
Recent political events have left us shaking our heads over the country where that beautiful song was born. But it’s the same old, old story the whole world and the timeline over—of grudges as priorities, of personal interest superseding moral fibre. And my first (rather ungodly) instinct is to crow, ‘It would never happen here.’ …
We Need White Space
I like to read different versions of the Bible because I find reading a different translation can bring a new or different perspective to God’s Word. I recently bought a new-to-me version to try, mostly because it was on sale on Kindle. I read a few pages of the Kindle sample, which was the (long) …
Devotional | “Do you want to get well?”
John Chapter 5 verses 1-15 (NIV). It was a day like every other day, for the past 38 years. Lying by the pool, along with a great number of other invalids, all hoping to get into the pool of Bethsaida, was a man who needed help. Up until this day, his only hope was to …
Devotional | Hearing the quiet voice of God
God’s Voice Hearing the voice of God. Are you hungry to hear the voice of God? I have always felt that way. Maybe it is a God-inspired desire built into us all. In the late eighties, Steve and I attended a John Wimber conference in Canberra. He explained that hearing the voice of God is …
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Devotion | Being Brave
When I think of the Apostle Paul, I picture a fearless man. Bold and unapologetic. No, trouble being brave. He was stoned, imprisoned, beaten, chased out of town, set on by mobs, hated by so many, and shipwrecked. Still, he kept on preaching. Such bravery! Me? I’m not so brave. I prefer to write because …
Devotion | LOVE LETTER TO A SLOW LEARNER – PART ONE
There is a relationship between slowing down and finding peace. God has been speaking to me about it for years – yes, years … because the truth is, I have been a very slow learner. What a bonus that He is a patient God! The enforced slowdown courtesy of the pandemic in 2020 should have …
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Devotion | Faith and Learning go Hand in Hand
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 I was seventeen, and a young Christian when the church I was attending had a messy split. At that time, the rest of my family weren’t worshiping anywhere, so I changed churches. I was young in my faith, and I remember feeling confused and …
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God of it all, a devotion.
Recently I was reading my devotional book for this year “My Utmost for His Highest” by Oswald Chambers and he mentions that there are dim regions of our personality that we cannot get at but the Holy Spirit works in. Going on to mention Psalm 139 he states that the Psalmist implies: ‘Thou art God …
DEVOTIONAL: He Delights in You
The other day as I was sitting at the kitchen counter, my little one starting dancing around the house. At 2.5 years old, she’s bursting with energy and doesn’t need music to break out her little dance moves. And every time she does, it just makes my heart smile. No matter what day I am …