I have now been a Christian for 14 years, since the year I left high school and completed my Higher School Certificate (HSC). Since then I’ve been schooled in the Bible and devoted myself to understanding it, but until about 6-9 months ago I never really understood the power of prayer. How long it has [...]
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Quiet Time Toolkit
Posted in Devotions, Encouragement, Father Heart of God, Feelings/Affect, Meditation on God, Prayer, Reflections, Revelations, Spurgeon on 21 April, 2012 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
Can we love or forgive ourselves?
Posted in Father Heart of God, Feelings/Affect, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 11 April, 2012 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Today I came across a discussion on the Facebook page of an American pastor whom I respect and it centred around this issue of whether or not Christian people should love and forgive themselves. I have had to think about it and do it in my own circumstances, and I thought it worth discussing here [...]
Sy Rogers on God’s Passion for the broken
Posted in Comedy, Father Heart of God, Healing and Restoration, Quotes, Redeemed Sexuality, Sexuality, USSA on 24 January, 2012 (Tuesday) | Leave a Comment »
I was listening tonight to a talk delivered by international Christian speaker, Sy Rogers, on God’s healing work and he said some very compelling and helpful – and funny! – things. Here are some of them When people struggle with their sexuality, they think ‘I am bad and God is mad’ and they tend to [...]
Emotions, God, and the Whole Thing
Posted in Father Heart of God, Feelings/Affect, Healing and Restoration on 6 December, 2011 (Tuesday) | 1 Comment »
In October of 2010, I purchased a book named “When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man”, by Edward T. Welch (1997, P&R Publishing, New Jersey). For me, the fear of others has been a big feature in my journey of life and it’s often obscured my [...]
God can only heal what He’s given
Posted in Abuse, Counselling, Father Heart of God, Healing and Restoration, Redeemed Sexuality, Sexuality on 29 October, 2011 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
A few years ago, Prince Charles (pictured above, with a cheeky-looking Queen) revealed that he talks to trees and hugs them. Michael Jackson, another famous person who, like Charles, was raised in a famous, performance-oriented family, had his own eccentricities. Among his were sleeping with kids, and he admitted having a ‘Peter Pan Complex’ of [...]
The Mask of Addiction Poem
Posted in Deliverance & Renunication, Father Heart of God, Healing and Restoration, Quotes on 13 October, 2011 (Thursday) | Leave a Comment »
In this fantastic book written by Briar Whitehead (Craving for Love, p. 75) , I came across a powerful poem on the mask of addiction: I keep my mask with me everywhere I go In case I need to wear it, so ME doesn’t show. I’m so afraid to show you ME, afraid of what [...]
Fathers? What on earth are they?
Posted in Abuse, Father Heart of God, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 28 September, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
One of my good friends who also struggles with SSA, Stan, has a blog where he reflects almost daily on the struggles that he has with parental neglect and the roller-coaster life that is that of same-sex attraction. On September 5 this year, he wrote on of his usual heart-wrenching posts on fathers/dads. So much [...]
The Saul Syndrome: Narcissism, Co-dep., and Insecurity
Posted in Abuse, Anger, Father Heart of God, Grief, Healing and Restoration, Quotes on 29 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
By far the most popular posts that I have written on this blog are the ones about King Saul, of all things. Heaven knows why… People do a Google search on King Saul and manage to track their way to this blog. Yet he is an intriguing character, because he is such a chilling representation [...]
Why do you keep going into the gutter?
Posted in Anger, Father Heart of God, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 15 August, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
You know what the Bible says about sin, yet you keep on doing it impulsively and compulsively. But why? Why doesn’t your cognitive reason match with your behaviour? Could it be that your heart is wounded and that many parts of your being are not redeemed by Christ and that you find yourself in destructive [...]
Books aplenty!
Posted in Bible college, Father Heart of God, Inspiriation, Prayer on 13 July, 2011 (Wednesday) | 2 Comments »
Next week (drumroll!) I will have my formal orientation/ introduction to Bible college, which I’m really looking forward to. Today I spoke to lecturers at the college, who agreed that I will be able to take subjects in theology, church history, preaching, and how to study the Old Testament. I can’t wait to start! As [...]
