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Stress in the home

The journal of pediatrics article Feb 2012 by the Havard Centre of developing child said that growing scientific evidence demonstrates that social and physical environments that threaten human developments because of scarcity stress and instability and can lead to short term physiological and psychological readjustments that are necessary for immediate survival and adaption but may come at a significant […]

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The Called

Author Frederick Buechner defined vocation as ‘the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need is a true calling’. When called by God we can be caught be surprise and carried off by something bigger than we have experienced before. It can be nerve wracking and thrilling at the same time. I have […]

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Beloved

I have recently discovered how I have been trying to win God’s approval, when God already approved of me. I had been acting as an orphan. We can see this orphan pattern in the bible. Cain was jealous of his brother which turned into anger. Nimrod led the people in the building of Babylon to ‘make […]

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The Tightrope and the Net

God extends unconditional love to us and at the same time a charged expectancy. This is a big world full of potentiality, because of the unconditional love of God I can try things and make mistakes, because when you try and risk you are going to fail, but because of God’s love we don’t pay […]

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Grace based invitation

Grace is giving that does not expect anything in return. Jesus healed ten lepers only one returned, we often focus on the ingratitude of the 9, but there is no real criticism of the 9. This shows the grace of God through Jesus. We want to be in control of outcomes, but Jesus did not […]

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Downward

For an invitation to live a fear has to die. The fear of looking foolish, the fear of hearing the word no. Jesus talked about the necessity for death. Unless that single grain of wheat dies, it remains a grain it gets trapped there. But once it dies, it produces. Once we allow a fear to […]

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Negative Emotions

No farmer would ever say they need a balmy 75 degrees sunny condition every single day. The farmer wouldn’t have crops. Crops need rain, wind, and storms for seeds to pollinate across the fields. Sunny days are like happiness, when you are in a happy state of mind, the status quo is more likely. There […]

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