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Three Years Ago Today I Despised Jesus

By on August 30, 2010 in Jesus' work in me

I can’t believe what I was like three years back!! Three years back I had a totally different worldview and what life was. I hated Jesus Three Years ago today, I hated Jesus, despised His work on the Cross, and made myself a proud enemy of God, and yet God reached down to me, loved [...]

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Filthy Roman Sponge

By on August 21, 2010 in Random

Today I read the below passage and it reminded me of a sermon I listened to some time back. Well… anyway… thought some of you might be interested to know the historical context of the soured wine and the sponge. Mark 15:33-37 33 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole [...]

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The No. 1 Question That Will Break Me Down

By on August 20, 2010 in Musings

“How are you doing?” There are two types of how-are-you-doings which I will call, for the sake of this argument, Type A and Type B, both of which elicit it’s own response. Type A The Type A how-are-you-doing, is the general small talk starter. It belongs in to the same family as the how-was-your-week and how’s-life. Answers [...]

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Our Church Plant is Exploding!!

By on August 16, 2010 in Jesus' call on my life

Whoohoo!! Just recovering from this Sunday! Was an awesome turn out!! I think it’s fair to say that about 11 months from our official launch, last week’s attendance was maybe x3 or x4 from this time last year! Loads of transients are turning up  as they pass through the town, and the number of core families [...]

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10 Things in Leadership I Wish I Knew Before Hand

By on August 14, 2010 in Jesus' call on my life, Jesus' work through me, Musings

5 Things I didn’t really prepare myself enough for It’s emotionally, spiritually, physically draining You’re always spread thin. Physically I find myself exhausted or stressed at times, just by merely running around, and due to a poor stewardship time, I’m not sleeping as much as I should be. Spiritually drained at times, and by error [...]

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Frankie and the Dreamcatcher turned Cross

By on August 13, 2010 in Jesus' work around me, Jesus' work through me

Frankie came in to work last week to use our washroom. I said “hi!” and he came over. Frankie has always been very generous with me, in spite of his poverty. Previous times he had given me a caught and gutted fish, drawings, oatmeal bars, and has offered to give me his vitamins when I [...]

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How Dare You: Cowardly men who abuse, neglect and dishonor women

By on August 8, 2010 in Musings

Here’s a snippet of the end of a sermon at Mars Hill Church, Seattle, by Mark Driscoll. I started listening to Driscoll around about January 2008, after I was introduced to one of his books, ‘Confessions of a Reformission Rev.‘. His preaching is awesome! Jesus has used him a lot to teach me, convict me [...]

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The Blessings of Being a Single Female Christian Missionary

By on August 6, 2010 in Musings

So… In a previous post I have described my struggles, specifically pertaining to being single as a female missionary, or a single female Christian in general. This week, however, the Holy Spirit has really been working at me again, reluctantly He is moulding me, or chiseling me in to shape… the antagonism with wanting to [...]

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10 hours and 10 days

By on August 5, 2010 in Musings

How I steward my time on a typical week. I recently calculated how many hours there are in a week; there are 168 hours in a week. I then calculated how I spend those hours:- 56 hours – sleep (based on 8 hours a day) 40 hours – work (not including overtime) 10 hours – commute [...]

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When The Rain Came Life Came With It

By on August 2, 2010 in Jesus' call on my life, Jesus' work around me, Jesus' work through me

It had been a crazy July in BC, there was barely any rain, and about 2.5mm of precipitation over the whole of July. Trees are literally dying outside on our street. Thunderstorms hit north BC on the last day of July, and it slowly moved down southward over Vancouver most-likely on to Seattle where it [...]

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