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While We Were Still Sinners: Creation is a gift to delight us
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. Friday, October 4, 2013. Creation is a gift to delight us. Have you ever watched a show like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition? A huge team if building crew and community volunteers comes in, an while a family in need get sent away on holiday, the team demolishes their old crumbling house and builds them a brand new one. In a week! The overwhelming gratitude an screams of delight from the family is a sight to behold! What would we think if th...
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While We Were Still Sinners: Jesus saved my life. And then He wrecked it.
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. Sunday, September 29, 2013. Jesus saved my life. And then He wrecked it. I once was lost, but now I'm found. It's just that where I find myself is not exactly where I thought it would be. (It's bigger and better - but a lot more challenging.). And I was miserable. In all of the outward display of freedom and fun, I was lost and dying inside. I think you know where this story is going. Jesus saved me. It was both instant and gradual. It got...
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While We Were Still Sinners: Where's the power of prayer?
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. Thursday, October 24, 2013. Where's the power of prayer? I know that God will give you whatever you ask him - John 11:22. That was Martha to Jesus, when Lazarus had died. We all know what came next. God really did give Jesus whatever He asked for. Wouldn't it be amazing to have that same authority and access that Jesus had, to ask for anything of God, and have Him listen to us! Oh, hang on. isn't that what we do. I think we get the picture.
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While We Were Still Sinners: August 2013
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. Monday, August 19, 2013. This week - and for a lot of weeks now - it seems to have been raining non stop. Which would be fine because normally we love sitting inside listening to the rain. Except that this week the rain has been getting inside. So we are waiting to see if its the responsibility of the company who built our house two years ago, or if our insurance company covers it, or whether we'll have to pay for it ourselves. And then He...
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While We Were Still Sinners: It makes me so angry...
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. Wednesday, November 20, 2013. It makes me so angry. Does anyone else think it's is crazy and totally, ridiculously self-indulgent how much we Christians spend our time arguing and telling each other what we can't be and can't do when there are so many out there in desperate need. Whether women are 'allowed to be in ministry', or. What a woman's 'place' is, or. What the exact definition of evangelical/new calvinism/blah blah is. Five1eleven...
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While We Were Still Sinners: September 2013
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. Sunday, September 29, 2013. Jesus saved my life. And then He wrecked it. I once was lost, but now I'm found. It's just that where I find myself is not exactly where I thought it would be. (It's bigger and better - but a lot more challenging.). And I was miserable. In all of the outward display of freedom and fun, I was lost and dying inside. I think you know where this story is going. Jesus saved me. It was both instant and gradual. It got...
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While We Were Still Sinners: We are all right, and we are all wrong
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. Tuesday, November 19, 2013. We are all right, and we are all wrong. I struggle to identify with any particular theological views or 'camps', and while I find reading all the different blogs and articles fascinating and thought provoking for a while, inevitably I reach the same reaction - I feel like throwing my ipad across the room in dispair. Why do we feel the need to pick a defined camp to pitch our tent in? I believe we can combat extr...
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While We Were Still Sinners: Contact
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. A resource for education, empowerment and action. Bring women together to live with purpose, compassion and world-changing love. Home with Love JC. Home and Lifestyle blog. Coming soon: 'House of Hope' - rebuilding hope and purpose. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Five1eleven Ministry - Equipping and inspiring ordinary people to live out the extraordinary gift of love God has given us. It makes me so angry. If You Missed It. Beauty and Make Up.
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While We Were Still Sinners: October 2013
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. Thursday, October 31, 2013. Halloween as a time for joy that light has overtaken the dark. Halloween is one of those touchy subjects for Christians. And especially in Australia, since it's never been a particularly wide spread event, people treat it with a kind of fear. But I think if we give Halloween too much credit as 'evil', then we are saying that evil has some power over us. I think we need to give ourselves some credit. Maybe our jo...
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While We Were Still Sinners: Project 3:11
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While We Were Still Sinners. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Love. This idea has evolved and grown from a spur of the moment decision to combat my own materialism and consumeristic tendencies with a year of no clothes shopping. To an exploration of greed, generosity and the excess of our world. Reading '7' by Jen Hatmaker sparked a thought. What if we have a garage 'sale' where we just give everything away. The only condition being, you can take it only if you need it, or know someone else who does. Take ...