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The Social Mirror

Many of us live our lives in a social mirror today, with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This often causes anxiety of fear of missing out. No matter what you are doing there is always something else that you could be doing better. It is like living life over the other persons shoulder. A real fear that […]

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Worry

Am I alone in thinking at times that my job is to worry about stuff? I am continually solving problems that haven’t occurred yet! I am always trying clear up the wreckage of my future. I am having conversations in my mind with people I might meet later in the day! Jesus said ‘Therefore I […]

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Trust

To become an invitational church and an invitational person I am not sure faith is enough, I think we have to have trust. If you went to a circus and watched a person on tight wire pushing a wheelbarrow, we might well think I bet they have done this a thousand times. One would have […]

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A Society of stress

Stress not an emotional state of being upset, stress is a physiological response of the body to a threat. It is a necessary response to short term threat but in the long term those same substances that in the short term help you escape, in the long term make you sick. Adrenaline helps you escape, […]

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My Value

I have to be aware of what stresses me. What beliefs do I have that stress me? For example If I believe my value depends on impressing other people I will spend my own life trying to get other people to value me and I will do all kind of things that stress me just […]

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The crustacean principle

When you shut down emotionally we stop learning. For development you need vulnerability which comes from the latin word vulnus which means the wound. Vulnerability is our capacity to be wounded, nothing grows when it is not vulnerable. Crabs (and other crustaceans) cannot grow in a linear fashion like most animals. Because they have a hard […]

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Our Incarnational Assignment

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the church at Ephesus says ‘For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.’ So what are these good works prepared in advance for us to do? We need to follow the path of the […]

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