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In 2005, my husband and I, along with our two youngest children spent a week in Northern Ireland.  It was mid-summer and beautiful.  The green of the country was glorious, and the temperature was just right for getting out and about.
We stayed with friends who took time out to show us some of the [...]

It was a long haul up the hill to our home.  Our first son was nearly a year old and I was pushing the pram he was in, along with bags of groceries, up the steep slope.  The day was pleasant, inviting us to be outdoors, and as I passed the neighbourhood homes, here [...]

Culture is legitimate.
I’ve seen the Christian faith working in people’s lives in a diverse range of cultures.  I’ve lived with families in Zimbabwe, Argentina, Greece, Mexico, New Zealand and the USA.  I’ve met up with Christians in Hong Kong, Denmark, Egypt and Spain.
I’ve lived in a grass house with a community of Christians [...]

I had just finished the third session of a four part seminar series on Parenting and opened up for questions.  A lady stood and said that what I had shared was good but it didn’t take into account individual differences in children.  She said that some children are more sensitive than others and for [...]

About 20 years ago, a mother of three young children said to me, “Our children can only learn to stand for Christ in this world by being exposed to the world and its values.  That way they understand what the world is about and know the difference.”
Uh?
Would you throw your child into the deep end [...]

So, you’ve smacked your child and had no good result from it.  The conclusion you have come to is that ‘it doesn’t work’.
To me, that smacks of an arrogance that says “I know better than God”.  The belief that smacking doesn’t work has become a High Place in many people’s minds as it [...]

The High Place I have identified here is explained by an example, but its application is much broader than this one example.  Try to catch the spirit of what I am saying……….
“Third and fourth children always miss out, so we only had two children”.
The statement amazed me.
It was made by a man in ministry [...]

The next ‘High Place’ is one about which people can get very passionate.  When people come to me asking for God’s wisdom on training their children, I must eventually speak of the use of the rod.  Too often, I have heard the response, “But ‘rod’ doesn’t MEAN ‘a Rod!”!!
This is usually said with a tone [...]

Several years ago I talked with a young Mum who had three children aged 4 - 10.  She shared with me some of the challenges she faced.  Among other things, she lamented over the fact that her children embraced the world’s values despite her efforts to train them to follow the Lord.
As she explained some [...]

Have you found out where Lot and his family were when God rained fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah?  If you haven’t seen Part 3 of ‘High Places’ don’t read any further right now, but go back to Lot’s Escape and see if you can answer the question.  In fact, if you haven’t read [...]

In this post, I have a third and last question to tease you with.  The first two questions were pretty simple weren’t they?  If you haven’t read those posts, go back to Parts 1 and 2 of ‘High Places’ and check them out.  You might be surprised.
Now for my last question.  How many of you [...]

In my first post on this subject I introduced the idea that we are prone to believing we know something when in fact we don’t.
As a simple example of this, I asked the question, ‘How many Wise Men visited Jesus?’ Now you’d think that if there was a question that any Christian could [...]

By the time you have been a Christian for a few years, you should have become pretty familiar with a lot of the historical accounts that the Bible relates.
How many of you know the account of Jesus’ birth? What about ‘David and Goliath’, or ‘Samson and Delilah’, or ‘Noah and the Flood’? What about [...]