Responding to Trials with Worship
Worshipping is not the first thing we really think of when we are going through a difficult experience. But I was really struck when I was reading Job the other day, that he was...
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The Balance of God’s Effort and Ours
Yesterday I was sitting on the couch doing some private prayer time with my lovely quilt lying over me. My mother hand-quilted it for me about 10 years ago. She had wanted to make me...
The Very Worried Sparrow
My daughter has been struggling with bad dreams and crying at bedtime because she’s scared of having more of them. So last week I read her a story that I got from the local library, and I...
On Being A Servant of God
I don’t get much time to read books nowadays, and I don’t often read books twice. But there are a few that do get read more than once… and this one I have read...
Forgetting What is Behind…
A while ago I had to cut something out of my life that wasn’t good for me, and every so often I look back and think about it, and wish for it, and try to...
How to Revive Your Passion for God
Have you ever looked back at your Christian life and realised there was a time when you had more excitement and passion for God than you do now? Did you give it up as...
A Link Up to Christian Bloggers
As Anita from Dreaming Beneath The Spires recently said, “If one does not expend the time in blog maintenance in a sense you’ve wasted your writing time, since no one reads it.” I think this is very...
Have You Lost Your Excitement for Jesus?
I have recently returned to a place spiritually that I don’t feel like I’ve been at for a number of years. The sad thing is that the whole time I have been serving God!...
Favourite Links from the Summer
Since we moved house in July I have had very little time for e-mailing and blogging, and even less time for reading blogs. But I have managed to read a few, and here are some...
Thoughts on Pleasing God
The most common search engine phrase which leads people to this blog is ‘living to please God’ – not surprisingly since that is the title! But I have never yet written a post on...
