Jonah answered, “I am a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.” (Jonah 1:9 NLT) Getting a hold of Bible stories as a child can be very useful. It can also be interesting to see how you took the story as a child and how that […]
Read More MWTM: Jonah Part 1 – Something Against JonahThe way we treat people is an expression of who we are. There’s something about the customer service industry and the consumer culture that reveals the values that matter to us. As the sentiment of ‘the customer is always right’ still lingers, it prioritises the offer of giving the customer the best possible. Not only […]
Read More Serving and RespectingThere is real vulnerability in understanding someone else’s point of view. Vulnerable because there’s an element of leaving what is comfortable to you, to enter into something that is far more comfortable for someone else. That probably explains why in some conversations it’s easier to ‘connect’ with what someone is saying by talking about what’s […]
Read More About An UnderstandingIt’s a privilege to be surrounded by people who have so much love for God and His Word. I was with some of them recently and one of them shared a familiar verse of scripture found in the letter by James. He writes about godly wisdom as opposed to worldly wisdom. Then he turns that […]
Read More You Don’t Have Because You Don’t AskThe creation account in Genesis still fascinates me. It’s such an intriguing piece. There’s that bit in the recounting of the making man, formed out of the dust. Then with a breath into the nostrils he becomes a living creature. It’s just the image of a lifeless dust form animated by the breath of life […]
Read More AnimatedTo Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles […]
Read More Bad Fruit and A Thorny Situation (The Fruit Series 14)Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. (Genesis 1:29 NIV) God’s instructions to humanity in the beginning is wide ranging. I had never even heard of some of the fruit […]
Read More Have Fruit (The Fruit Series 09)See Genesis 1:28 Just when I thought it was safe to move on from that verse, I came across this video which gave even more pause for thought. Great to consider the encouragement from Mike Breen on fruitfulness. Here’s to hoping we will be in the business of sowing seeds that bring up the fruitful […]
Read More Be Fruitful – About Fruitfulness (The Fruit Series 08)And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 Humans are created to be fruitful. It’s […]
Read More Be Fruitful – The Human Instruction (The Fruit Series 04)The issue of human rights is one that bothered me for years. It bothered me because of the degree to which some argued for it from a biblical perspective. That was a problem to me because of some things I could not reconcile among other things the way the concept of human rights could easily […]
Read More What Rights Do We Truly Have as Human Beings?
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