Living Today
Interesting articles from Christian teachers and leaders. Designed to help you as you follow Jesus here in Papua New Guinea
Christmas Rooms
Picture Christmas as cozy rooms filled with warmth, playfulness, and abundant love. In this festive season, our hearts transform into these inviting spaces, radiating affection in every corner. Laughter and joy echo through these emotional sanctuaries, embodying the...
Share The Light This Christmas
Who can you share the Light of Christmas with? Christmas is a tapestry of emotion — a celebration filled with care, kindness, and hope. It's the joy of togetherness, where hearts connect and exchange moments that sparkle with warmth. As we gather, we share more than...
It Isn’t How You Start, But How You Finish
By: Pastor Greg Laurie In 2017 on New Year’s Eve in New York City, visitors to Times Square were encouraged to bring whatever they wanted out of their lives and throw it into a giant shredder. Some people shredded paper on which they had written unpleasant memories, while others shredded photographs and even their bills. That sounds kind of fun, but shredding your bills won’t make them go away. However, I can tell you there’s something even better. We have a great Saviour who can help us put...
Three Ways to Get Spiritually Refreshed
By Pastor Greg Laurie I love the word refresh. It’s such a perfect word to describe starting again or returning to something. In fact, we even use it as a computer term. Sometimes when I’m working on my computer, leave it for a while, and then come back, things freeze up. Certain programs aren’t working properly anymore. So I have to refresh my computer screen. And there are times when that means I need to completely reboot. Sometimes we need a reboot in the Christian life as well. Sometimes...
Self Care is not Selfish
You need to look after yourself. it is important!
Living in Purpose
By Author: Sabrina Peters When you hear the term ‘purpose’, what words come to mind? Success? Happiness? Meaning? Wealth? Marriage? Influence? Affluence? Talent? Relationships? As a Christian, I find my answer in God’s Word. Romans 12:1-2 (TM) puts it like this, “So, here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best...
The Secret Place
By: Dr Dan Mo Have you ever wondered where a man can find God and fellowship with Him today? Adam met with God and fellowshipped with Him in the Garden of Eden. Moses met with God and fellowshipped with Him at the tabernacle. David met with God and fellowshipped with Him at the temple. What about us in this day and age? Where can we find God and fellowship with Him? “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalm 91:1 In current times,...
Shining Light into a Dark and Desperate World
Dear friends, If you’re old enough you may remember the Beatles’ hit song in the 60’s called “Help”. John Farnham also did an impassioned version of it in the early 80’s. And if a modern day artist were to record it, I suspect it could become an anthem once again, especially the line, “Help me if you can, I’m feeling down”. It is no wonder anxiety and depression are at all-time highs, with so much bad news, disunity, fear, speculation and opinion. Add in the uncertainties of lockdowns, many...
Feast of Trumpets – What We Learn As Christians
The End of the Age. What emotions does that statement provoke? It can be a controversial subject for God’s people. It’s a Biblical topic that many Christians find difficult to engage with. And there is no shortage of perspectives on how current events relate to Biblical end times. Old Testament feasts and celebrations bring into focus end times through Jewish eyes. There are seven feasts in the Jewish calendar traced to the Old Testament. These early feasts may foreshadow Jesus’ first...
Making Peace with Unfulfilled Dreams
As a kid, you had big hopes and dreams for your life. And then, reality set it. In this Focus on the Family video Chrystal Evans Hurst shares how she had to place her aspirations aside first, as a teenage single mother, then again later in life when she became the breadwinner for her family. You’ll be encouraged to rediscover your identity in God and reclaim your dreams of long ago. Focus on the Family provides relevant, practical support to help families thrive in every stage of life. You...
Your Offenses Have Been Swept Away
God has swept away your offenses like a cloud. He has swept away your sins like the morning mist.
A Prayer for Troubled Times
Need some encouragement today? Read and meditate on these words and pray them to our Lord. Let nothing disturb you Let nothing frighten you Those who cling to God will lack nothing Let nothing disturb you Let nothing frighten you God alone is enough! Amen “Trust in The Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make you path straight.” Proverbs 3:56 NKJV
Change your thinking, change your life (3)
‘Let those with understanding receive guidance.’ Proverbs 1:5 NLT
The book of Proverbs begins: ‘These are the proverbs of Solomon… Their purpose is to teach people wisdom … to help them understand the insights of the wise… to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. These proverbs will give insight to the simple, knowledge and discernment to the young. Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance…’ (Proverbs 1:1-5 NLT).
Creative thinking is simply disciplined thinking. If you think you know all there is to know, then you already know everything you’re ever going to know. In order to break out of the box, you must begin by asking the right questions. British screenwriter Sir Antony Jay said, ‘The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions.’ Wrong questions halt the process of creative thinking. They send you down the same old path. In order to change your life, you must change your thinking. That means you must be willing to ask these two questions: ‘Why must it always be done this way? Is there a better way?’
Whether your goal is to build a better life, a better family, a better business, a better church, a better career, or a better ‘anything’, all change and progress must begin by honestly asking those two questions. The saying is true: ‘If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.’ So, do you want to succeed? You must be willing to change your thinking in order to accomplish it.
SoulFood: Deut 30:1 – 32:28, Mark 8:27-38, Ps 57, Pro 12:15-17
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