Living sacrifices
I have been reading and reflecting on Romans chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 the last few days. I have done this many times over the years as this passage was one of my first memory verses in the discipleship program I did. For those not familiar with this passage it says… “Therefore, I urge [...]
A joke from my daughter
My daughter just came up and asked me a question. She said, “What is the longest word in the dictionary?” I thought hang on I can get this one, give me a moment. I started to think of all the big words I know. Antidisestablishment, no. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocis, no. Before long I gave up. She said, [...]
Being thankful
As a dad I am trying to encourage my kids to have good positive attitudes. One that I am especially keen to pass on to my kids is being thankful for what we have. Yesterday in our Sunday arvo family worship time we looked at the attitude of being thankful. After some worship I looked [...]
Living to please God
I was reading the New Testament book of Thessalonians this morning. The heading for chapter four is “Living to please God” (1 Thessalonians 4:1-18). It grabbed my attention. It is interesting that when you read through this chapter it naturally breaks into four paragraphs that tell us how to please God in the way we [...]
Another term ends
There is nothing like the feeling of emailing off your last assignment for a term. Every time I do it I let out a big sigh and sink down in my chair. While I am loving this opportunity to return to full time studies as a mature age student, there is nothing like knowing that [...]
