The Melbourne Cup – the race that stops a nation!
Since 1861, “The Melbourne Cup” is Australia’s major thoroughbred horse race and is billed as “The race that stops a nation”. What wisdom can be gleaned from such a race? You maybe surprised.
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Earnest Prayer – astonished or expected answers?!
Christians are called to pray. God hears every prayer. Yet, when the impossible occurs, we are astonished! Why?
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Has God got favorites?
Have you ever been annoyed at some aspect of your culture being trampled over by another invading culture or been incensed by your cultural norms being eroded away and replaced by other cultural systems?
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Do you know where God lives?
Where does God live? Is it ‘up there’, you know… heaven? Or is He ‘in the house’? Or somewhere else? Wonder no more.
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Are you serious?!
What have Monty Python’s “Four Yorkshire Men” and the Bible characters, Ananias and Sapphira, got in common? Seriously, it’s a joke… maybe.
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Time flies…yet the seconds tick away the same for all.
Time has flown since I moved to Empart. It has been 5 months! Interestingly, a couple themes have arisen in my writings during that time… did you spot it? Here is a summary.
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Learn Unity. Just smack your thumb with a hammer!
I’m learning to strategically remove my pincered finger and thumb from a half driven-in nail before the hammer pounds it in below the thickness of them both. Is it not interesting how our whole body reacts when just the tip of a single digit is exposed to the experience of a crushing blow?
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Unity. ANZACs. Mates. Glory. And the Presence of God.
Why is it in Australia, it doesn’t matter if you grew up poorest of the poor or with a silver spoon in your mouth, true mateship extends beyond social standing? There is no division. There is just ‘together’, ‘oneness’, ‘me mates!’
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Ambition. Good or Bad? How do you decide?
No virtue exists in our lives without Satan awakening a corresponding vice: nipping on the heels of obedience is pride, striding behind faith walks presumption and in the shadow of godly vision, selfish ambition lurks. As we continue to explore Unity, let us look at the area of ambition. The motive behind Lucifer’s great rebellion,…
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