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Owning your beliefs

Owning your beliefs

Oftentimes, we are content with being Christians only around other Christians. Talking to other friends and associates about God has a sort of taboo around it....

  • New World Order

    The world’s youngest elected leader, 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, has vowed to destroy the New World Order and remove Austria from the European Union.

  • My slant on the crisis in Palestine

    God has been returning the Jews to their home-land after the long Diaspora and two millennia of Roman, Christian and Muslim persecution throughout the world.

  • Love changes everything

    Recently there has been much sobbing and wailing in our household. Juliet, one of our beloved cats, has died. However her life truly showed me the transformative power love has.

  • What do you want from God?

    I will never forget the time that I was in Goa, on the west coast of India. I had taken a train there which is a story in itself. I arrived at this beach that I think was called Colva.

  • God speaks in many ways

    This is about my cat that I chose to adopt when he was maybe a week old, rescued near the creek by one of the kids in our church, and given to me. I named him Creek for he was found there.

  • Stepping out of the boat

    I think most of us fear the unknown, we fear a life that is unpredictable, where God is truly in the driver's seat. We're afraid of the possibility of what could be, of what we don't control.

  • 'Twas a couple of weeks before Christmas

    I'm a stickler for tradition and a favourite from my childhood was being read the classic story 'Twas the Night before Christmas by my Mum on Christmas Eve. This is my adult adaptation.

  • Listen to the stories of slaves

    The barbarity of slavery in 18th and 19th century America seems far away from those of us tucked up in nice, comfortable 21st century New Zealand. This history is easy to ignore, but we need to listen to the stories of slaves.

  • The Lord's secret prayer

    Prayer is done for God, not for appearance. Our Lord warned against hypocrisy and the outward show of our duties. Instead, Jesus tells us that what we do must be done from an inward principle.

  • William Wilberforce and why he is a hero worth copying

    One of the great human desires is to have heroes, people we look up to and get inspired by. Heroes push us to become better, strive for greatness, and inspire us throughout our daily lives.

  • I, Wonder Woman

    Quite by chance, my most recent visit home to New Zealand coincided with the release of the 2017 Wonder Woman movie.