Posts with the tag “restore-ministries”

Peace. Peace. Peace.I JUST WANT SOME PEACE!!!It’s an all too familiar cry.In a busted, disordered world, the cry for peace can be heard all over the place.Stop long enough and you will hear it coming ...  Read More

Confined.Squashed.Cramped.This is the reality trouble and sin create. They take a big life and make it small. They take a free soul and strangle it.It may be your sin, or the sin of others around you....  Read More

I went to my cousin’s funeral the other day. It was sad – for a bunch of reasons. It was sad because a man had died. It was sad because he was young. It was sad because he had three kids he left behin...  Read More

We are a curious mob.We like to know why people do what they do. We like to know why we do what we do. Knowing the whys and wherefores of human behaviour is helpful in locating the starting point for ...  Read More

You are a courier.Not a drug courier or a parcel courier.A grace and peace courier.Today you will likely bump into stressed-out people, angry people, people in the middle of conflict, people returning...  Read More

I am the worst.This is what shame says to you.This is what shame says about you.It is easy to believe and hard to dislodge.There are many ways to get to this point. You can end up here because of what...  Read More

There are at least two ways to get where you want to go. You can work out how to get there yourself or someone can lead you there.Before we had GPS devices, Siri and satellite navigation, we had stree...  Read More

I have four sons.When they were young I used to ask them, “How strong can you be if Jesus helps you?”They soon worked out the answer.“As strong as Jesus.”In a house with four sons, being strong is imp...  Read More

Sin contaminates.It makes you dirty.Sometimes you know it and sometimes you don’t.There are at least two different ways people react when they become aware they are contaminated – they either give up ...  Read More

Maybe it is a by-product of our scientific age. We split things up and break them down so we can know more. It is a good and important thing to do, but when we apply that approach across the board, li...  Read More

Everything is contested.Look around, you will see evidence of it everywhere.There is a contest for people’s hearts. There is an ongoing moral contest in our culture. Every temptation you face is a con...  Read More

‘You can be anything you want to be.’‘You can do anything you want to do.’These are sayings which you might hear thrown around in our culture from time to time. They normally come from people who have...  Read More

Fear is probably a bigger driving force in your life than you might think.Think beyond what you are afraid of right now.Slow down.Look deeper.Consider how fear has shaped your life.There are probably ...  Read More

I am over it.The Coronavirus that is.I woke up this morning and I was done. Tired of thinking about it, tired of hearing about it, tired of having conversations about it. I wanted to talk about sport,...  Read More

Our culture is very noisy right now. The 24/7 news cycle and our social media feeds shout at us. They tell us to get busy and minimise the virus threat by being vigilant and running away from the invi...  Read More

“It’s all good.”A dad said this to his son today.I was minding my own business going up an escalator at a local shopping centre, and they were coming down the other side. It was just a snapshot in tim...  Read More

Who are you?Good question.Most people have asked this question from one time to another and many have embarked on a personal quest to answer it. For many of us, whilst the question is a good one, the ...  Read More

This is the first blog in the Restore Ministries series on self care.We are just over halfway through one of the weirdest years in our lifetimes. We have had droughts, fires, floods, and are partway t...  Read More