Category: Mindset

  • since God has chosen you

    “….. since God has chosen you, made you holy, and lavished his love upon you. You must be tender-hearted, kind, humble, meek and ready to put up with anything.  Let the king’s peace be the deciding factor in your hearts ….”   Col 3:12,15

    NT Wright asks in his commentary on Colossians, “Have you ever seriously tried to forgive someone who has wronged you? Have you ever seriously tried to be compassionate and patient? Have you ever tried to let Christ’s peace, Christ’s word, Christ name be the reality around which you order your life?     If you have, you’ll know it’s not easy.” (more…)

  • The art of intolerance

    Rev Craig Mischewski reflects …
    I have been spending a lot more time in prayer and reading Scripture of late, and in my time in the prophet Isaiah I read this text.  In light of the current proposals from the Assembly, I feel that the text speaks into this situation.

    Isa 19:22  “And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will and heal it, they will return to the LORD and He will be entreated by them and heal them…” (more…)

  • “Do not be afraid to fail ~ be afraid to not try”

  • Mindset Matters

    Over the years as you pursue a relationship with Jesus you discover a few treasures, by that I mean, truths or understandings that really make a difference in being a ‘son’ of God. You could say the penny dropped or the light went on, however, I like to put it  like this, that, as you search out God’s treasure a curtain gets drawn back on a truth that always existed in the heart of God. 

    Some of those treasures have been coming to an understanding that ‘There is no normal’ there is just life with God; I am either a  ‘Victim or Volunteer’ in every situation; and ‘I am a new creation’ completely  transformed and made a clean. Another truth or revelation has been that Mindset matters – how we think about who we are matters!  (more…)