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Why Your Suffering Matters: What 1 Peter Teaches About Pain, Growth and Love
A return to Broken Hill after 35 years prompted a reflection on how quickly life passes. Drawing on 1 Peter 4, this article explores why suffering is not something to fear, but something God can use to shape us into people who love Him and others more deeply.
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What Does It REALLY Mean to Live With Hope?
We live in a world that tells us to trust ourselves, follow our feelings, and create our own truth. Peter offers a very different vision. Real hope begins with repentance, grows through the work of the Holy Spirit, and becomes visible through lives that love and suffer differently. What if hope is not simply something we believe, but something we live?
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How Should Christians Engage With Politics? A Christian Response to Division and Power
Politics can easily shape us more than Jesus does. In a divided world filled with outrage, fear and tribalism, 1 Peter offers a different vision. Followers of Jesus are called to engage politically with truth, humility, justice, mercy and compassion — without placing their hope in power or political tribes.
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The Answer to Your Biggest Problem (It’s Not What You Think)
What if the biggest problem in your life isn’t actually your biggest problem? Beneath every struggle is a deeper story shaping how you see yourself, others, and God. This post explores how that story works—and how Jesus invites you into a better one that leads to real life.
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Why Following Your Feelings Isn’t Working (and What to Do Instead)
We’re often told to follow our feelings, but the Bible suggests something more complex. Our inner world is shaped by many influences—some healthy, some not—and real life is found not in following every feeling, but in anchoring our hope in God.
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What Faith Really Looks Like in the Real World
Faith is not about strong feelings or certainty. It’s about what you trust when life gets hard. This explores what faith really looks like in the real world.
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I’m scared
Living lightly One of the most important daily habits I have is spending time with God each morning. For me this involves writing down how I am currently feeling and what I am currently thinking and then praying a bit and then reading the bible and then asking God what he wants me to hear and writing that down, and then finishing by praying both for a list of things and people I have written at the back of my journal and then just doing my best to listen. This habit grounds me. As I look back on the last couple of years, one of the most common things I…
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Forget Policy and Procedure
Not because you have to I’ve just been chatting with a friend about the difference between serving from a spirit of willingness and serving because you feel like to have to.. I have been challenged for quite a while by 1 Peter 5:2-3 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, serving as overseers—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not greedy for money, but eager to serve; not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. What I always found challenging was the statement “not because you must, but because you are willing”. It is…
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Because you are willing
A different kind of leadership I love leadership. I love the creative challenge of trying to work out with God what the future might be and how we get there. I must say though, that there are lots of times when I want to give up, and even more times when I feel “driven”. There was something I noticed in 1 Peter chapter 5 that surprised me as I thought about leadership:
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