June 30th, 2008
I just had another round of golf. I noticed something interesting in about the guy who was playing on the hole in front of me. He loaded up his ball and tried to smash it all the way to the green every time. Most of the time it went about 150 metres and into the [...]
June 27th, 2008
It is amazing how rain can bring hope. Overnight we had 10mm of rain. That is more rain than we have had in one day all year. My wife went out to the local shops this morning and people were buzzing. One of my neighbours even called out across the road and said wasn’t the [...]
June 27th, 2008
Being content in hard times is easier said than done. The Apostle Paul from the Bible understood true contentment. Many times he had been beaten, whipped, shipwrecked, starved and imprisoned, but he still said he was content.
In Philippians 4:11-13 Paul says this, “I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have [...]
June 26th, 2008
As a Christian involved in ministry there are times when you wonder if you are making any difference in the lives of the people around you. A lot of the times you don’t see any real measurable difference you are making and sometimes in your quieter moments you can tend to get a bit discouraged.
One [...]
June 25th, 2008
Recently I was asked the question, “What did Jesus save us from?” I thought that was a great question because as Christians we put all our faith and hope in what Jesus has done in saving us.
In his book “Great words of the Gospel” Gerald Stanton says that, ‘Salvation sets before us two major ideas, [...]
June 24th, 2008
One of the things we talked about last night was the effectiveness of various outreach philosophies. We talked about what we have seen work and what has not. After some discussion we came to the conclusion that evangelism works best in the context of relationships. No surprise there I guess?
This got me thinking about how [...]
June 23rd, 2008
I was sitting in my lounge room this morning and my youngest started reading the titles of books in our bookshelf. She came to Philip Yancey’s book “What’s so amazing about grace?” and asked what grace was. My first thought was I have just woken up, can I have an easier question!
After some thought I [...]
