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At a recent prayer meeting I attended, we waited on the Lord for some time just to meditate on Him and his Word and to enjoy His presence.

When we finished, one lady shared that she had a lovely sense that God was dancing with her.

Now I realise that may seem a strange thing.  Firstly, I know that some people believe that dancing is a sin.  I don’t take that view.  Though I certainly recognise that a lot of dancing is provocative, lewd, sensual - indeed, designed to appeal to our lusts - there are also many ways to dance (more…)

I received a letter of appeal the other day.  It was from an organisation that promotes the ethical treatment of animals and spoke of the dreadful cruelty cats and dogs commonly suffer as they are tortured and killed for their fur in China each year.

The letter was well written and made its point well.  It was designed to pull at our heartstrings - and it does that very successfully.

However, the rescue of animals from such cruelty wasn’t the only agenda behind this letter.  If it was, I would be fully behind it.  There was a second agenda, and it’s that agenda that I want to discuss here.

As the letter unfolded, there were three actions that they asked the reader to take.

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So far in this series on ‘Building up My Faith’, we have looked at the need to Call on God First, to Remember, to Choose to Believe and to Be Real.

This time I want to discuss something surprising about fear and unbelief and how that understanding this can reduce our stress.

There are times when God allows us to be challenged and stretched in our faith.   It is especially then that we can find our faith isn’t quite what we thought it was so it’s good to remind ourselves that our faith doesn’t have to be perfect to get an answer.

We can put ourselves under a lot of stress to ‘perform’ when it comes to believing God.   I heard one person say, ‘If you can’t make it, then fake it.’  They believed that if they had any doubts or fears then it negated every bit of faith they had.  They also believed that if they said all the ‘right’ things that it would somehow demonstrate they had faith.

The problem was (more…)

Hey!  I was taught that fossils were remains of dead creatures.  How can a fossil be ‘living’?  Well, when a creature or a plant that lives today is identical to fossils that are believed to be ‘millions of years old’ it creates a problem for evolutionists.

To skirt around the problem, they came up with the phrase ‘living fossils’.  That basically means that evolutionists can’t explain why these creatures and plants have shown no change for the supposed ‘millions of years’ they have been on earth.

However, if you look at it from a creationist point of view it poses no problem at all.

Find out why.

King David began Psalm 25 with the words, “To You O Lord do I lift up my soul.” The words of this Psalm are a cry from his heart.  He calls on God for deliverance, mercy, forgiveness.  He declares God’s goodness in various ways.

Verses 4 and 5 give us a glimpse into his heart.  When you consider the songs he was able to write at this time of his life, we could be tempted to think that he already knew God about as well as one could hope.  But David wasn’t about to stagnate in his walk with God.

I imagine that David must have prayed this prayer many times over his life.  It didn’t matter how far he had gone with God, how ‘mature’ he was in the Lord, this prayer was never going to be superseded by a more up to date one.  There is always more for us to know of God.  There is always a greater intimacy we can enjoy with Him.  There are always treasures we have not yet discovered in His Word.

So this prayer was fresh for David.  It was fresh every time he prayed it. (more…)

Our first taste of Malaysia was the nine hour bus trip that took us from the Singapore border to Seremban, about an hour south of Kuala Lumpur.  The bus meandered its way north, frequently stopping along the way to pick up and put down locals.

We were eventually deposited at the Seremban bus station where a  young man from the church we would be attending at Port Dickson,.met us and took us the 25 minutes to our final destination.

Port Dickson is what the Malaysians kept calling a ‘small’ town.  It was however big enough to have several multi-storey resort complexes, a lot of restaurants, many suburbs, (more…)

For believers in the prevailing evolutionary view that dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, the idea that they might be alive today is hard to accept.

But dinosaur like creatures are regularly being sited in many places all over the globe.  Read the account of a ‘dinosaur-like reptile’ that was seen on two occasions in the Lake Murray area, in Western Province of New Guinea in 1999.

One of my daughters-in-law has given her children jobs, or chores as some would call them, to do each afternoon after they come home from school.

It falls to her second child, a boy, to get the washing in.

One day, he must have been feeling particularly efficient.  Normally on arriving home from school, his first thought is ‘food’.  However several months ago, he walked through the front door, dropped his school bag, then walked straight out the back door to the clothesline and began taking the washing off the line.

He didn’t notice that the washing was still damp.   (more…)

The ferry pulled alongside the dock at Piraeus, near Athens.  We had taken the overnight trip from the Greek island of Kalymos after having spent a week there and on the neighbouring island of Kos.

We were scheduled to speak at a couple of churches in Thessaloniki on the weekend and chose to take the seven hour train journey from Piraeus in order to arrive in Thessaloniki that day.

Now we weren’t sure if that was going to work out. (more…)

It’s commonly believed that petrification takes millions of years.

Care to cook with some flour that was ground around 1903?

Find out why you’ll have a hard job doing that.

It’s a rare parent that doesn’t want the best for their child.  Parents generally want their children to expand their interests, develop their talents, enjoy good friendships, be successful and have a good marriage and a happy family.

When it comes down to the specifics, we have differing views of what ‘the best’ is.  For some parents, ‘the best’ for their children means (more…)

We’re going through a bit of a financial tight spot at the moment.  It’s happened before, and as on previous occasions, an end will come to it.   In the meantime, we have had to adjust our living - go without, mend things more often, think twice before we use the car, only buy essentials.

About 4 months ago, our 14 year old daughter told me she would be needing new runners soon.  I also noticed that some of her clothing was getting too small for her, some of her track pants had holes in the knees, and she had completely outgrown her good shoes.

Despite that, I asked her to eek out the last of the life left in the runners - a request with which she happily co-operated.

A few months after that, we received a cash gift with instructions (more…)

What has caused a bottle, a ceramic jar, basketware, iron corrosion products, pebbles and shell fragments to keep close company?

Find out how the sinking of the British troopship HMS Birkenhead in 1852 has lead to yet another proof that geological processes don’t need millions of years.

There was a time when I would write out a ‘to do’ list each morning, then lament each night when I didn’t complete everything on the list.   I lived with a sense of failure because of the things that were left undone, rather than with the joy of knowing I had accomplished many things on any given day.

We didn’t watch television, and computers and the internet were still a mystery to us, so I couldn’t be accused of wasting time on soapies and computer games.  It’s just that five young children take a lot of looking after.

Despite my high productivity, I always carried a sense that I was failing to meet ‘the standard’, and lived with that mindset for many years.

Fast forward to 2003.  (more…)

Life will inevitably bring along it’s little frustrations.  We have found though that when we live in a culture different to our own, it has a habit of presenting us with a few more frustrations that we would usually face.

Here’s a little exchange that occurred between my husband and (more…)

What caused the rolling hills in an area of south-west Georgia in the USA to become a rugged canyon?  It wasn’t as fast as a speeding bullet, but it was eons faster than most people think it takes.

Click here for your answer.