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Faith in God is believing His Word over anything you may see, hear or experience. Married to SueAnn and living in Newcastle NSW Australia - We both love Jesus - he is our strength, our Hope and our Redeemer.
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Yesterday’s Gone
Nick Vujicic is a literally a walking miracle!!! I say that because Nick was born without arms or legs – he tried to drown himself when he was just 10 years old – can you believe that? – fortunately for… Read More ›
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The Hero of Harlem – The Subway Superman
Wesley Autrey the Hero of Harlem – The 2007 Subway Superman – What brought this guy to be included in the list of 100 men and women whose power or moral example transformed the world? That year was extra special… Read More ›
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Focusing
The very first time I had ever seen REAL snow was when I was a young father and we holidayed way over in the Australia’s snowy mountain region in lower NSW. It was there, and I might add at the… Read More ›
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Drawing back the curtain
Drawing back the curtain was the title of the sermon last Sunday morning as we studied Revelation chapter 9. We have been going though Revelation and it has been an eye opening experience for me one could even say eye-popping… Read More ›
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A Quick Jaunt in the Woods
Don’t you love going to the woods (or the bush as we call it in Australia) – I love the woods/bush – the smell, the silence, the things to do – the getting away from it all. Tramping, trekking, rambling… Read More ›
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Anytime you think about making a questionable decision – think twice (Steve Smith Australian Ex Cricket Captain)
Well what can one say? The Australian Cricket team has brought disaster on themselves and probably to a lot of other Aussies – all I can say as a cricket enthusiast that we here in Australia are disappointed to say… Read More ›
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It is no secret what God can do
Just been listening to my friends from Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands singing a song my sister and I used to sing when we were little guys growing up here in Australia – IT IS NO SECRET WHAT GOD CAN… Read More ›
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Sometimes ya gotta wing it when ya don't know to fly
Just back from a mighty week away at the Tamworth Country Music Festival watching our 14 year old Grandblessing, Elyssa Faith perform. For those who have never heard of the Tamworth Country Music Festival just suffice to say that Tamworth… Read More ›
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Wanna settle that score?
Oh Man! – How many times throughout my life and I’m guessing yours as well have we sought or longed for revenge – we need to desperately settle that score that’s been hanging over our heads for so long. Thing… Read More ›
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Just the tip of the iceberg
The sinking of the RMS Titanic happened on the night of the 14th April 1912 when it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, The huge ship listed until it finally sank in the early hours of the 15th April… Read More ›
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You cannot shake hands with a closed fist (Indira Ghandi)
You cannot shake hands with a closed fist – Interesting quote there by Indira Ghandi the assassinated Prime Minister of India who was killed by her two bodyguards on 31st October, 1984. Interestingly she was voted Woman of the Millennium… Read More ›
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Doubt your doubts not God
A one time friend of mine through twitter told me when I had confessed that I often had doubts about my salvation or in fact “is Jesus THE one?” that I had better re-think my whole faith experience. She went… Read More ›
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Deep Waters
When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty. You will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression. You will not be burned up; … Read More ›
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No matter how deep the wound is
Wow! when I look back on my past (which is something I really try not to do) in lots of ways my childhood and teenage years were fraught with anxiety, confusion and a load of guilt that was often unbearable…. Read More ›
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Does that ring a bell?
“Does that ring a bell?” – How often have we heard that saying? – some long time memory forgotten maybe? Something that has just been brought back to your mind? Maybe a phrase or a word or especially a name… Read More ›
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Singapore, Australia, World War 2 and Radji Beach
This is the sad story of Australian nurses executed on Radji Beach Singapore. In was 12 the February, 1942 and Singapore was in the grip of a mighty Japanese invasion that would see hundreds of people scrambling onto the wharves… Read More ›
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A clear conscious is a soft pillow (French proverb)
Ever gone to bed with this huge worry on your mind that gives you this amazing knot in your stomach? I have and I know it can be an absolute horrible and trying night – that’s for sure! There… Read More ›
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The Barn Dance
Oh the Barn Dance and variations thereof! Right side, left together, right side kick and repeat Then: Left step forward, right kick across (scoot to the left), Right step forward (scoot to the right) then Do-Si-Do and around you go… Read More ›
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Requesting -v- Demanding
It was the case of the missing computer that got my mind in a bit of a twist! My 17 year old Grandblessing lost his work at school just the day before the pre-lims tests for the year 11 finals… Read More ›
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And…..The cow tripped over the moon
Whatever would we do without our Grandblessings? That’s the question I asked my wife SueAnn as we both commented on Amelia excitedly telling us about this amazing book that was her reading material for the BOOK WEEK special. Amelia is… Read More ›
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The Letter
The letter arrived quite unexpectedly and Alex wished with all of his being that he hadn’t opened it at all because then he wouldn’t have known exactly what had caused it. Could he have lived with himself then? A question… Read More ›
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Going in reverse
How is your Christian life progressing? A question that has been asked a few times through my life and each time I have replied “OK I guess”. Although to be perfectly honest, often I feel far away from God and… Read More ›
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Tilting at Windmills
Over the years I have heard the saying “Your tilting at windmills again” but I never really understood what the saying meant – so when I read it again just this week and in the context in which it was… Read More ›
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Feeling disqualified, ruled out, suspended?
Following Jesus was never meant to be an easy road! We are told that God wants 100% of our lives not just lip service – not just some ordinary howdy doody kind of faith that saps your energy in TRYING… Read More ›
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Assumptions
I heard once that “assume makes an ass out of U and me”. It has been brought home to me recently just how easily we can assume something and so easily be so wrong in our assumption. We can assume… Read More ›
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We are all so unique
We are all individuals and all unique – something that has come home to roost with my brain this week. How can God in this vast universe with our planet just the tiniest speck in the hemisphere know or even… Read More ›
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Seeing the heart
Have you heard of the saying “Talking the talk but not walking the walk” – well that can just about sum it up for a lot of us Christians. Many of us are in that situation as Christians and that… Read More ›
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Temper Tantrums, Vengeance and God
How amazing is God? This amazing!! He takes arrogant, openly rebellious, messed-up, broken, weird, quirky and imperfect people like me and uses then to accomplish his purposes. Just recently I was registrar for a men’s weekend retreat come convention in… Read More ›
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Two left feet? Keep on dancing
Listening just recently to the Aussie group “For King and Country”, I was again hit by the magnitude of what following Jesus and indeed Christianity is all about. Loved their song LONG LIVE and listening, was taken again on just… Read More ›
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Is it really all about the bunny?
WOW!! I’ve been staggered by the invasion of the BUNNY this Easter time – it seems to me that more and more and more and more emphasis is on eating and chocolate and so-called Easter bunnies. I was gobsmacked last… Read More ›