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Oh dear, I feel a peeve coming on…..
One of those things I find irritating is the verbiage commonly adopted by many Christians, because when speaking to others that are not part of, or involved with any institutional church, these expressions basically make little sense. I understand that… Continue reading
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Options & Expectations
The post explores the interplay between medical intervention and faith-based healing, suggesting that modern society’s reliance on medicine can diminish one’s ability to fully embrace divine healing. It argues that believers should shift their mindset from expecting sickness to realizing… Continue reading
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Life, Death & Healing: Then and Now
From time to time I have pondered how it is that so many believers from generations past appeared to receive a healing more easily, when people of this day and age so often do not. Even in these modern times,… Continue reading
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Life, Death and Healing – an introduction
Healing always seems to be such a popular, yet controversial topic amongst Christians. Well, that and tithing. But ever since I was baptised with the Spirit of God and read through the New Testament, the phrase “and they were all… Continue reading
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Tradition. Again.
Reaching a point of absolute exasperation with the Jews he was speaking to in Corinth, Paul gave up trying to persuade them to see and accept what was plainly written about the Messiah in the scriptures, and how all of… Continue reading
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Tradition….tradition!
So I don’t know about you, but most of the time when I hear ‘tradition’ like that, I tend to hear the whole cast of Fiddler on the Roof in my head belting out the song from the movie. And… Continue reading
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Follow me….
Have you ever noticed the way some drivers will slow down as they drive past the scene of an accident? You can see them rubber-necking, as if hoping to catch a glimpse of blood or tragedy – because for them,… Continue reading
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Fear & Conditioning
Once upon a time…. When I relocated to attend Bible College in Queensland, I spent most of my first year there boarding with an adult family. The house we lived in was on a large, open piece of land on… Continue reading
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Agency & Authority
When my children were small, there was never any question about who was in charge. I was the boss of them because I was their parent, and my right to exercise parental authority was unquestioned because we all knew I… Continue reading
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Exodus
Looking from the inside Something said by the character Atticus Finch in the book ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ has always stayed with me since reading it as a teenager. He said: “You never really understand a person until you consider… Continue reading
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