The importance of beauty to your life
What is beauty? How would you define it? It’s a bit of a mystery right?...
What is the dream of your heart?
Load this link and listen to the music as you read. What is the dream of your heart?...
You are not who you might think
Load this link and listen to the music as you read. Saint Irenaeus said, “The glory of God is man fully alive and fully alive consists of beholding God.” The furious longing of God for you is a reality that is meant to cause life to explode from your heart....
God has a secret 2
In sum of last week, in the difference between the eternity set in our hearts and the reality of a broken world around us arises longing. Beauty awakens longing because it calls out to us about that which is true about us but not yet fully realized. BUT…there is more....
Beauty in unexpected places
I have a friend who rented some space in an upmarket building in north east Sydney recently. He started a physio business. I went to visit him the other day, struggling to find my way through the maze of corridors in the building....
Beauty in failure
I heard a preacher tell a story of his young son (4yo). He came home from work one day feeling like a failure. He walked into the kitchen to find his son there and his wife. His son was standing on a kitchen chair leaning over a sink filled with water and mounds of...
Beauty in difficulty
So you find yourself in circumstantial difficulty. You’re in a proverbial prison and you can’t get out. You’re stuck and stuck fast – nothing’s moving, nothing’s changing, like Joseph was in Genesis – and you can’t see it ever changing. You might be there because it’s your fault or it might not be your...
Finding delight in God’s word (an example 1)
John 9: A story of redemption and encounter, Part 1 To read about the practical steps for how I came to this click here. Read John 9 here. Walking along that road out of Jerusalem, where the dust thrown up by leather sandals tastes like old books on a tongue made dry in afternoon...
Finding delight in the word of God (Practical)
To read the introduction and foundation to this post, click here. 1. Firstly, when we read, we need to go wide by reading the whole bible from beginning to end. This is important because the Bible interprets the Bible. We need to know what is in it and how the different parts relate each other....