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03 November 2021 – Are We There Yet? – Part 6

Acts 27:9 Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous. In the pursuit to spread the goodnews of Jesus Christ, Paul the apostle suffered three shipwrecks in his four missionary journeys. Paul was on a journey as a prisoner along with 276 other prisoners to Rome for his trial where he was...

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02 November 2021 – Are We There Yet? – Part 5

Genesis 8:16 God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. The longest nonstop ocean voyage recorded in history was by Reid Stowe who had sailed his yacht for 1,152 days along a Hudson River which he started in 2010. He had a cheering crowd...

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01 November 2021 – Are We There Yet? – Part 4

Joshua 3:4 Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. Decision making can be tough. Making a choice among alternative courses of action which will also include inaction, can be challenging, cryptic and confusing. We make “strategic” long term determinations, “tactical” short term actions and “operational”, day-to-day...

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31 October 2021 – Are We There Yet? – Part 3

Isaiah 35:8 And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it. A bypass is a highway that “bypasses” the built-up area, crowded residential cities, towns,...

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30 October 2021 – Are We There Yet? – Part 2

Exodus 13:18 God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea. We would cringe and mourn when we see ‘detour sign’ rerouting our road trip. Detours leave hideous memories of grumpy children and messed up plans in our journey. God muddled the plan of Moses and gave him a map...

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29 October 2021 – Are We There Yet? – Part 1

Exodus 12:39 With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves. “Are we there Yet?” is a 2005 American award winning comedy movie about an incessant...

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28 October 2021 – Difficult People – Part 7

Matthew 21:30 Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. Jesus elucidated the nature of two groups of people who were responding to His preaching and teaching with the parable in Matthew 21:28-32. There was a man with two sons. He said...

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27 October 2021 – Difficult People – Part 6

Luke 9:54 When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from Heaven to destroy them? Aggressive people are those who cannot control their emotions but bully verbally or become violent in their reaction. Aggression or passive-aggression is only a reaction to intense emotional pain...

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26 October 2021 – Difficult People – Part 5

Esther 9:24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them. “Avengers” mulch over incidents or episodes and ruin the present by reminiscing over the past. Grudges often persist rumination of an incident over and over again causing emotional pain and stress. It...

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25 October 2021 – Difficult People – Part 4

Luke 23:13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! Moral psychology defines a hypocrite as someone who fails to follow his own expressed moral rules, regulations and principles. Hypocrite is a “plastered saint” who puts on a façade of false appearance and whose behaviour contradicts his principles and propagations. Hypocrites pretends to...