Dealing with the Voices of Failure
The thing with failure is the longer you stay in failure the more it gets a grip on you. The longer you fail to make a new start, the harder it is to move on [...]
The Reason for Christmas
Are we forgetting the reason for Christmas? This year, more than ever, I have noticed the absence of Jesus and the dominance of Santa’s, reindeer, bells and lights in our shopping centers. I have been [...]
God Is Disappointed In Me
“I am not sure if God loves me,” she said, “I feel that He is disappointed in me.” I was quite shocked to hear my friend say that in the light of my studies on [...]
Dad Already Knows
In Matt 6:7-8 Jesus tells us not to “keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.” Jesus was speaking about people who with verbose prayers think [...]
Reasons We Don’t Pray
I wish I did pray as often as I would like to. Wouldn’t you? To be characterized by prayer and to be totally confident that when I say to someone “I will pray for you,” [...]
It’s going to take too long!
Have you noticed the Christmas decorations have arrived in the shops? To me it signals the start of that "end of year" period, when we run around trying to finish the year off. It's end [...]
The Voices in My Head
The voices in my head compete for my attention. They can be quite demanding and extremely vocal at the most inconvenient times, like the middle of the night, when I am busy with a new [...]
Spiritual Markers
Using Spiritual Markers to mark important events in your spiritual life, to enable a stronger spiritual walk.
What Does It Mean to Overcome?
I was writing a guest blog for Beauty for Ashes, “How Do You Overcome Depression?” and found myself thinking about that word “overcome.” How do you know when you have overcome something? What is a [...]
Consistently Counted On
I personally would hate to be described as inconsistent. Simply because someone had observed that what I say is not consistent with how I live my life, my words are not always truthful, or I pretend to [...]
