It was just prior to Christmas. The bus rolled into the grass field surrounded by the high rise commission flats in Melbourne. The bus stopped and the team transformed the area into a hot spot where children and parents began to flock. Face painting, ice cream, clowns, balloons and the bus. As children filed onto…
DetailsFreeways get upgraded and are constantly changing to accommodate the burgeoning population of Melbourne. I haven’t been through the maze of reconstruction between the Bolte Bridge and Montague Street until recently. As I returned from the airport after dropping a friend off, and chatting with my wife, as one does, the familiar road seem to…
Details“Love is in the air, I can hear it everywhere…” is the personally modified John Paul Young song that melodically floats through my mind whenever I hear the words, “Valentine’s Day“. Immediately follows are the cynical thoughts of commercialism and inflated prices ripping off love sick saps all over the world. Saint Valentine’s Day (commonly…
DetailsThe new Southern Spirit Inc website has been redesigned and launched today! The design is flexible and built using the blogging tool, WordPress, with the Thesis Theme. We would value your feedback. Is there some information you would find helpful on this website? Let us know through your comments below.
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A black carpet on the tiled floor is moving. It is a sea of ants, busy with determined purpose. Each going about it’s work, nonplussed by the giant who is about to rock their little world. Their long trails pouring into the house through cracks and any gap they can find. Pffft! Doors are for…
DetailsHow often have we prayed something like, “O Lord, be with cousin Billy now in a special way”? Have we stopped to consider what it is we’re requesting? Imagine that you are a parent who is preparing to leave your children with a babysitter. Would you dream of saying, “O Betsy, I ask you now…
DetailsWe lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. Oswald Chambers There are 7 types of simple-praying people. Yesterday we saw that the fifth type of…
DetailsTell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell God your troubles, that God may comfort you; tell God your joys, that God may sober them; tell God your longings, that God may purify them; tell God your dislikes, that God…
DetailsIs the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?….Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of…
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