Perhaps this year you’ve decided that you’re going to diligently stick to the known path you’ve always been on because that’s where you feel safest. Your reasoning is that you’ve realised that dream, that call, that purpose you constantly think about has only led you down dead ends and diversions and there is no point …
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My Word for 2023: Less
Happy New Year! It’s the time of year when many people resolve to implement new habits to improve themselves. We resolve to lose weight, exercise more, eat better. If we’re Christians, we resolve to read the Bible more or pray more or be more involved in church. More, more, more. We live in a society …
Devotional | Gratitude and Grace
On the 9th of December 2022, it marked 2,287 days since God declared healing over me. I spent some time reflecting on the previous day…… It had started out wonderfully I had a dream where I sensed God’s presence so strongly and I was greatly encouraged, but by the afternoon I was in a state …
Devotional | Changing Times – An Unchanging God
Devotional by Karen Rees “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock in whom I take refuge.” Psalms 18:2 The Mt. Pinatubo volcano erupted in the Philippines in June, 1991. In a matter of days, villages, rice fields and roads were buried under thousands of tons of pale …
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Devotional | The Incarnational *ADVENT*ure
There’s something about Christmas. People from all walks of life suddenly start decorating their homes garishly, wearing garments they would otherwise never dream of endorsing, putting trees inside their houses instead of outside where they belong, singing in public, and making plans to cook a very specific set of foods. A whole host of traditions, coming …
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Busyness Gives Us Nothing
What message has God wanted to tell you lately but you’ve been too busy to stop and take the time to listen to Him? It’s crazy, but we give all our attention to busyness and what does busyness give us in return? I’ll tell you, absolutely nothing. That’s right, zip, narder, diddly squat. Busyness is like a …
Devotional | Where are you dwelling?
Dwelling and Resting: Psalm 91 verse 1- 2 and 9 -10 NIV He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Verse 2. I will say of the Lord “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” This year personal circumstances …
Devotional | Are you an Ostrich or an Emu?
On the way to our camp in the Australian bush, we travel past a field that is home to a mob of emus. These birds are almost the largest in the world, second only to the African ostrich. There are many similarities between these two flightless birds. Both are massive animals—six to nine feet tall. …
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Next Courageous Step
What does your next courageous step look like? It’s different for everyone but the chasm to cross still looks the same – Scary. That enormous gap, that gigantic step, the massive move you need to make between where you would like to be and where you actually are always feels way too wild, too crazy, …
Devotional: Plots You Need to Know
One Christmas, I received a book many writers may have in their library of writing resources. Between the covers of Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, Christopher Booker pours a wealth of knowledge into 700 pages about crafting the perfect plot and creating satisfying storytelling. A plot is a sequence in which a story …