Eternity News: Four Ways To Love Your Single Friends Better

Eternity News: Four Ways To Love Your Single Friends Better

I’ve had some amazing opportunities to share my book in a variety of interviews. So far, without fail, I am always asked what Churches and married people can do in order to support the single people in their world. It’s a valid question and I can understand why they’re asking it…

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Lesson Three: Who am I to think I can get away with my disobedience effecting only me?

Lesson Three: Who am I to think I can get away with my disobedience effecting only me?

In really simple terms, my disobedience cost me more because the sandwich I purchased was $7 versus the cost of a coffee for $4. It cost me more because there were a number of people eating lunch close by when I went to give Graeme his sandwich who would have seen Graeme’s rejection of my offer, versus earlier in the morning no one being around (there’s also a lesson to be learned in doing things in secret for the glory of God versus in the open for the praise and adoration of men).

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Lesson Two: Who am I to think I can improve on the execution of God’s plan?

Lesson Two: Who am I to think I can improve on the execution of God’s plan?

God’s call or request is not a suggestion. It is not up for discussion. God doesn’t need your two cents. What God needs, is your action. Your willingness to go when He calls you. Your willingness to be interrupted. Your willingness to acknowledge your life is part of a greater narrative being worked out and your willingness to follow God’s call is critical to how God expresses His love in the world.

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Lesson One: Who Am I To Think I can Improve The Timing Of God?

 Lesson One: Who Am I To Think I can Improve The Timing Of God?

I naively (and unconsciously) thought that I could improve on the timing of God when in reality what I was doing was stalling. I was procrastinating. I held off because I had to check that Graeme was there. When in actual fact I wasn’t willing to allow God to disrupt me in that moment.

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The Language of Lament - Part Two

The Language of Lament - Part Two

I am drawn to the image of a God who, in all cases of lamenting, listened. He sat and listened. He waited and listened. He did not rush to heal. He did not rush to repair. He did not rush to reconcile. He listened to the lamenting. And so should we.

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The Language of Lament - Part One.

The Language of Lament - Part One.

Last night, the news headlines were all about the riots in Minnesota, the pain of the African American people, and the death of George Floyd. A google search this morning of “National Reconciliation Week” on the first few pages returns no results from any major News outlets here in Australia.

Instead, their websites are filled with news from America and I’m left wondering…

Why are the cries of America louder than the original custodians of the land we now call Australia?

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Freedom Found In Restriction

Freedom Found In Restriction

Who would have thought that when freedom is restricted, the world actually thrives? Not us humans, that’s for sure. But I imagine God does, given it was the very thing he did to create the world. God himself had to contract in order to create space for the creation to exist. It’s a Hebrew term called Zimzum. A restriction or contraction of freedom in order for something else to thrive.

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Sick of reading about it?

 Sick of reading about it?

A comment popped up on my Facebook from a friend asking me to give her a reason to read yet another book on singleness. This caught my attention. I hadn’t considered that I would need to prove that my book was helpful to fellow singles. But I liked how this challenged me to think about those who may feel a little fatigued by what books are currently in the market for Christian singles. I don’t want this book to just be another “Sunday school” answer. As a single person, I know how annoying it is when all you’re met with is “just trust Jesus” in response to your laments about being single. It’s not that this, and other answers like it, are wrong. It’s that in your moment of deep loneliness or rejection, it can feel like only words.

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