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Seasons of life

Seasons of life

New Zealand is currently in transition between autumn and winter. While I know that this brings mixed feelings to many people who still mourn the loss of summer as it becomes adistant memory, the transition does bring a silver lining – a golden light with gorgeous sunrises and sunsets every day..

  • Martha and Mary in 2019

    ‘But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”’  (Luke chapter 10, verse 40)

  • He will lift you up

    Feeling inadequate, deficient, or plainly unqualified are feelings I’m sure many of us can relate to. 

  • Why being holier than others should lead to increased humility

    We have recently been doing a series on Holiness at our church and I wanted to share some of the encouraging and practical things I have learnt through it, I hope it is of as much encouragement and spurring on to you as it has been to me.

  • When in a storm, sleep (Part 2 of 2)

    Last time, I started looking at some lessons from a storm.  This article contains my remaining points. I’ll pick up where I left off.

  • Who will go to hell?

    I have read with much interest the news surrounding public figures who are Christians and their stands or belief on certain subjects. In our part of the world, Israel Folau and Scott Morrison has created quite the stir with their thoughts on who will go to hell.

  • How do I pray?

    This was one of the first questions I asked myself when I first became a Christian. But I was unsure and unwise to ask my friends how to do this because I did not come from a Christian family or background.

  • Importance of the Family Unit for Society

    It seems everyone today is saying how families are the number one priority for our wellbeing. On television, commercial after commercial, features families playing and shopping together. Insurance companies advertise that we must take out life policies for the future of our families.

  • How to fail at life, yet keep trying anyway

    My first mistake was thinking that I could keep the same running pace with one foot lopped off. My second mistake was getting frustrated at the now singular foot that then collapsed – mid-stride and rather drastically on the loose, grimy soil.

  • A knock at the door

    My father tells a story of an incident in Christchurch when he was a teenager, a story of obedience and humility.  In 1941,during World War II, there was fear of a Japanese invasion of New Zealand and a blackout was put in place incoastal areas.

  • Let’s Measure Success

     We live in a world where our personal performance is measured from the cradle to the grave. Think about this … as soon as we were born measurements were taken of our length and our weight; our parents were then measured on their ability to help both of these things grow.

  • Lessons learned and unlearned

    As a teenager, I had a short-lived and highly unsuccessful babysitting career. One memorable fail was when I decided to wake a sleeping baby for a cuddle. I poked and prodded through its wooden cot bars until the poor baby stirred. Then it cried. Loudly and endlessly.