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Dealing with Hurt and Pain God’s Way

07.09.2023 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

It’s a fact of life that people will hurt us. The only way to avoid that is to live in complete isolation and not have relationships with anyone. Of course, that just creates a different kind of pain. So, assuming we don’t want to take that path, what’s the best way to respond to the people who hurt us?

Be Extraordinary

18.02.2022 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

You might be familiar with the words of Jesus, “Do to others as you would like them to do to you” (Luke 6:31). Some call this the golden rule… The English author and philosopher, G. K. Chesterton, reflecting on these words, said that “Christianity isn’t just difficult – it’s impossible.”

The Power Of Love

24.04.2020 Categories: All | Anzac Day Written by: Neil Percival

Like so many other things, Anzac Day will this year will be very different. However, while we may have to change the way we celebrate this day, the truths behind it do not change. Jesus said, “Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:12-13).

Freedom in Captivity

26.04.2019 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

There was a man up the street from my childhood home by the name of Jim. He was kind, gentle, generous. He left gifts of vegetables from his garden on our doorstep early in the morning. But one thing always puzzled me as a child. Why did he only have one arm?

Tags: Freedom, Love, Anzac Day

Valentine’s Day on Steroids

15.02.2019 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

Yesterday was Valentine’s day. I must confess, up front, that I don’t have a romantic bone in my body, so that may colour my opinions. My thoughts on Valentine’s Day are mixed…

Tags: Love, Valentines Day

There Is Never An Excuse

23.11.2018 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

If you read the statistics, domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions in our society. By domestic violence, I’m thinking of every kind of coercive, controlling behaviour, physical or emotional, used by one person to exert power or control over another. Sadly, it is as prevalent amongst Christians as it is amongst non-Christians. The difference is that abusers who claim to be Christians often try to twist the bible to justify their actions.

Greater Love Has No One Than This

09.11.2018 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War. During that conflict, an Australian soldier in the trenches of France saw his friend fall in a hail of bullets out in no man’s land.