Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with Your generous Spirit! Psalm 51:12 (NLT) As I was reading this Psalm, I came across the word restore, and it reminded me of a project that I started a few years ago restoring a classic car. When I first started all, I wanted…
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We covered a range of intriguing stories from the bible this term in our Chapel gatherings. Things that made us go ‘Huh’, ‘Whoa’ and ‘Eww’! There was a talking donkey, a fish with money in its mouth, even mouldy manna… Plenty of things left us scratching our heads. We heard about the people who found…
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Ten years ago, me and my family were part of a short five-part documentary series for Messages of Hope called “Chronic”. You can view it on YouTube. youtube.com/messagesofhope and go to the playlist “Chronic”. The series is about my journey with severe chronic pain after my spinal injury and how reading the Book of Job…
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When I was studying to be a pastor, once a week, every week, we were given free bread from a local bakery. And every week, my housemate would go and get bread, and he would put it in the freezer. Which was fine, but he would do it until the freezer was totally full. Which…
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What’s your motivation? What makes you tick? What kind of foundation do you stand on when times are good and when times are tough? What do you treasure most? If you ask Mr Wilksch these questions, he would point you to his source of hope, confidence, comfort, strength and inspiration; God’s love shown through Jesus.…
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You know the story. You have heard it many times, I am sure. Jonah the prophet becomes FISH FOOD. When we look at images of the story it actually looks pretty clean inside the whale, however I am sure that if you really think about it that wouldn’t be the case. Think about it…digestive juices,…
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Two people were running late for the bus. 1 person ran the whole way, never stopping to get there in time. 1 person strolled casually but prayed the whole way asking God for them to get the bus. Who do you think got the bus? Today we looked at the weird/crazy/ewww story of Jesus telling…
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The story of Elijah has all the hallmarks of a blockbuster movie! After a little research, I found that a few years ago there was talk of a movie in the making, but I couldn’t find any recent updates on how it was progressing. Elijah was a prophet who lived around 800 years before Christ.…
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In the Shrek movies, Donkey doesn’t stop talking! In the Bible, Balaam’s donkey started talking to him. Here’s how it happened. God rescued his people Israel from slavery in Egypt. After 40 years of wandering, the Israelites reached the plains of Moab. They were close to entering the promised land. Now King Balak of Moab feared the…
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Weird/crazy/gross is our topic for worship this term. We often see God as nice and gentle and the bible as safe…and definitely not gross. However, there is much in the bible that is weird/crazy/gross. It might sound obvious, but people in bible-times probably weren’t that different than us. Sometimes it took lots of chances or signs from God for them to believe Him…
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