Life Is Short – Let’s Use It the Best We Can
I was reading in the Psalms the other day and was reminded of the shortness of life: “LORD, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I...
Living To Please God Blog
Giving God your Best
Recently my youngest son hasn’t been sleeping as well as I’d like, so he is either taking a long time to get to bed, waking up in the night, or bursting into our room...
5 Ways to Get More from Reading Books
‘Reading maketh a full man; speaking, a ready man, writing, an exact man.’ Francis Bacon ‘The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually will be reading constantly.’ Oswald Sanders Bring the cloak that...
Why It’s OK for Christians to Make an Effort
For a few years now I have been increasingly bothered by something I have seen in Christianity – an underlying belief that it’s bad to work at, strive, and make an effort to grow,...
Don’t Follow the Crowd
I went into our church’s crèche last week where they were teaching the story of Palm Sunday, and was shocked that it was only a week before Easter. I had never really thought about...
3 Prayers To Help You Share the Gospel
I’m not a natural at openly sharing the gospel with people, even though I believe it with all my heart and want others to believe it too. In infant school apparently I used to...
Update on Memorising Proverbs
I have been attempting to memorise Proverbs since last May, and because I had heard that a goal was good, I set a goal of memorising it in a year. Well I can safely...
Favourite Links & UK Fellowship Friday
I’ve actually managed to find the time to skim through Google Reader and read some posts this week! So here are some of my favourites: Finding true purpose at home – ways mothers can be...
When Work and Ministry get Tough
Sometimes it seems like everything is failing. Or people make comments or don’t seem to approve. Or what you’re doing just gets hard, for various reasons. The thing that I always come back to,...
‘Courageous’ Review & UK Fellowship Friday
I must be losing my mind slowly – I keep forgetting that I need to post a link up on Friday mornings! Anyway, better late than never, so here it is finally – please...
