March 11th, 2010
Proverbs 12:16 says, “A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult”.
We have all had situations where we have been insulted on purpose or when someone who has said some to us that caused us angst. It is a part of life and living with others.
In today’s verse it talks [...]
March 2nd, 2010
Last week I shared some advice that has been helpful to me as a Christian parent from Dr Sears book “Parenting and Childcare: A Guide for Christian Parents”.
Today I thought I would share some more advice on commitment to being a Christian parent. In the first chapter Dr Sears shares seven things that God expects from [...]
February 23rd, 2010
One of the parenting books I have found quite useful over the years is Dr William Sears book “Parenting and Childcare: A Guide for Christian Parents”. My wife purchased it just before our second child was born.
Two things in the book have really helped me over the years. The first one is about priorities and [...]
February 17th, 2010
I watched an interesting show on the ABC recently. It is called “The People Watchers”. It is a team of psychologists who set up different situations and observe people as they do them. Afterwards they reveal their experiment to the people and ask questions on how they felt.
In the recent episode they asked two groups of [...]
February 2nd, 2010
Every now and then I sit and ponder how effective my efforts at reaching people for Christ are. I wonder how much of an impact I am making in the different areas of my life that I move in.
I guess in many ways we never really see the full effect we are having on peoples [...]
January 30th, 2010
One of the things I believe we need as Christians is encouragement. Life does get tough at times and we need to build up our “bank balance” of encouragement. This helps us to live a little higher and survive the negative things when they come our way.
I have a few things I do to keep [...]
December 30th, 2009
As it is fast approaching the end of the year I start to reflect on the year that was. One area I have been thinking about is the PASSION website.
PASSION has continued to be an effective website. To date we have had 47,000 unique visitors for the year. I don’t know how that compares to [...]
