I know this title doesn’t make heaps of sense, but otherwise it would’ve been too long. I’ve been writing a teaching and going through my notes. It’s on Thursday, and today is the day that I’m going to practise it using the microphone and PowerPoint slide, just so I can get a feel for the … Continue reading The Art of Keeping
I was sitting here writing a bunch of teaching notes. I was nearly done; I only had to include some personal testimony and I’d be finished. I finished about two minutes ago, so my mind is still kind of blown. I was writing out my personal testimony, and it hit me how powerful testimony is. … Continue reading The Art of Using Every Opportunity
It can be so easy to get caught up in a busy day or week or month. It can be so easy to take that busyness and carry it into the next day or into a social event or into your sleep. I’ve been thinking about how having a busy day affects me. I forget … Continue reading The Art of Being Busy
Sometimes you have to decide you can. That’s my sentence for the day. Sometimes you have to decide you can. Some things in life come down to reason, and there are reasonable blockages keeping you from something. But what I’m learning is sometimes it’s the ‘simple’ matter of deciding you can. When I first started … Continue reading The Art of Deciding
This afternoon, I was lying on a grassy hill for a few hours, just lying in the sun. I was resting on my own, enjoying God’s creation, which I don’t do nearly enough. I was singing, and what was stuck in my head was a song bridge that I just kept repeating. It goes like … Continue reading The Art of Repeating
Campers, today was one of the best days of my life. I was baptised. My heart is full, my life is filled with many, many beautiful people able to be there for me, and I know that God will continue this great work in me. The weather, which has been cloudy for days, rolled back … Continue reading The Art of Being Baptised
Sometimes feeling like you have nothing to fear, I've found, can be bad, because the reason you're not fearing could be because you feel in control, and sometimes you can feel in control based on your own strength rather than God's. On land, in many situations, I feel safe because I haven't been in many … Continue reading The Art of Being Protected
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