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The law teaches love. We were created for love. But since we so easily forget what love is, God laid down the law as a guide to teach us what love looks like. Yet so often that is not how we use the law. In today’s world, we often hear statements like: “just love one […]

Who holds the keys to your peace? A mature person that recognises that the battle isn’t against flesh and blood, realises that another person doesn’t hold the keys to their peace or lack of it. Or joy for that matter. What they do only has the power to rub you of joy and peace if […]

Knowing how to deal with offenses is an important life skill to have. Everybody gets offended sometimes. Such is life. All of us meet people on occasion that do or say something that offends us. And we all have someone that finds the soft underbelly we all secretly posses, and then they throw grenades at […]

Have you ever been distracted by your smartphone when you are trying to connect with a friend or colleague? We all have. I think it is time to start reclaiming my relationships from my smartphone. The average user checks his smartphone for messages about every six and a half minutes. The constant blinking and beeping […]

When we think about Church, most of us think about either the building we go to on Sunday mornings or that thing we do on Sunday mornings. But Church can happen anywhere at any time. Church is simply a gathering of believers. A group of believers getting together and doing life together. So Church doesn’t […]

Well hello there! We should now have been loving on Cuba for four days. It is hard to pre-write posts like this. I can’t predict our adventures or misadventures in Cuba. Often as people we struggle with the hero complex. We desire to help people because they need our help. We help them because we […]

The Early Christians referred to themselves as “People of The Way” or Disciples of Christ. They were first called Christians in Antioch. This morning at my Church, the teaching pastor talked about how Christians used to refer to themselves as “People of the Way” not Christians. And that the name Christian was actually a nickname […]

In order to avoid taking offence, give others the benefit of a doubt. Choose to trust their hearts. Choose to believe that their intentions were true, even when what they did or said hurt. This last week I sat down with a friend and as we chatted, I was reminded how easily we take things […]

They can put you in chains, or they can free you. They can build your future or destroy it. Words are that powerful. What words are you speaking today? Being able to control the words is the power to control your life. The Apostle James compares the tongue to the bridle in a horse’s mouth […]

The stories we tell matter. There are the stories we tell to ourselves, and the stories we tell to others. Life boils down to the stories we tell. The stories we tell ourselves are most important. Because any story we tell consistently becomes a belief. And our beliefs then translate into what we do. So […]