Even though my mother has dementia, there are certain events from her past that she has no problem remembering. Hearing God’s words is one of them. Having lived what she calls a ‘good Christian life’ in her own eyes, Mum went through some struggles in her late sixties, trying to understand those age-old questions common to us all, ‘Why, God? Why aren’t You doing anything?’ As she rattled off a list of all the things she had done for God,…
Have you ever seen a movie where a submarine is submersed in the ocean and the enemy above is dropping depth chargers? I saw this in a movie the other week and Derek explained to me how the depth chargers worked and what they were intended to do. Basically, the closer they explode to the sub the more damage they will do. But it’s all about creating pressure. When the charger explodes it creates incredible pressure on the sub…
Male members of the species do not be alarmed at this post! Even men can appreciate the ways in which we can see the Lord through this strange and peculiar phenomenon that occurs in a female’s body when she’s….well …getting tired. Following along the theme of my last post 9 Ways Every Pizza Eating Believer Can See Christ, I want to share with you just how even in the experience of menopause, we can see the Lord. (I don’t have…
A brother recently sent me a text quoting Peter in 2 Peter 1:4 which reads; “…seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world…
My sister is a writer – a beautiful screenwriter – a storyteller. We were talking about how nice it was to see credits on a new Aussie movie for “Written by….” which doesn’t often occur. In this conversation she told me there’s a saying in the film industry that goes like this: The director gets the money, the actor gets the fame, and the writer gets the blame. She spoke of the film writer as the unsung hero, and when…
A few months back, a movie came out in the cinemas called ‘Into The Storm’, written by John Swetnam, and starring Richard Armitage. I couldn’t wait to see it on the big screen rather than on the television set at home. I didn’t expect it to be a Hollywood Blockbuster but I was really hoping the special effects would blow me away (no pun intended folks!). And I wasn’t disappointed!! For me, it was on par with ‘Twister’ that came out…
Psalm 24, verse one. “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it”(NIV). What a comfort this is to me. Yesterday, here in Australia, 3 people died as a result of a siege in Martin Place Sydney; up 18 innocent people were held hostage for 16 hours by a religious extremist gunman. As the last couple of days have unfolded, television and social media have given 24/7 coverage of events, with live…
Just yesterday I began to see one of the most important stages in my Christian growth that I’ve not understood until now, through Andrew Murray’s book “Absolute Surrender”. I have understood the point we as believers get to, when we share with Paul’s cry “oh wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24). I thought even getting to this point was a spiritual leap of some significance atleast. What I didn’t understand…
I saw this tree the other day – this beautiful Australian Redgum. It has three trunks in the one. What an incredible and simple explanation of the community of the Godhead. One but yet three. Three distinctly different but of the same life, the same origin, the same purpose. Never before have I seen so clearly in nature, the revealing of this Holy Community, that is our God. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. No morphing of one into the other, no…
(Picture above is found at http://biblestudyoutlines.org/bible-study-lessons/old-testament-bible-study/1-kings-6-bible-study/) Have you ever read the account of Solomon’s building the temple for God? I’ve been recently struck by the extravagance of Solomon’s ‘giving’ to the Lord. No, God never asked for it to be built; it was King David’s desire, that was given to his son King Solomon to fulfil but God sure accepted it. What struck me, is that King Solomon at the time of building the temple knew in his inner man,…