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How God Helped Me Transition Out of My Ideal Job
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Five years ago, God helped me secure a new job within three weeks of being told of my redeployment. By God's grace, I'm still in that same job today. But the transition to the new job wasn't easy.
Joseph John Booth: A Light of Christ in the Trenches
Australian Joseph John Booth was that person when he set sail for France more than 100 years ago to serve as an army chaplain in World War 1. Thousands of young able-bodied Australian and New Zealand men also answered the call to serve their country. Unfortunately, thousands of the soldiers never returned home.
Lost Between Two Worlds
Whatever were gains to me I now consider loss. . . (Philippians 3:7-8) If believing in Jesus hasn’t made your life better, at least in the way you think it should’ve, could it be. . . that you haven’t fully understood what you’ve gained?
I Lost My Hearing, But I Still Heard God’s Grace and Love
The year I turned 24, I became virtually deaf. I was talking to my family one night when I realised that I could only pick out two or three words in a sentence. The doctors diagnosed me with sensorineural hearing loss.
Moving On From a Friendship Breakup
I’ve had my share of friendship “fades”, the kind of drifting apart that comes with growing up, moving away, getting married, having children. But I’ve never had a friendship “breakup”.
3 Ways Knowing God's Hope Shapes Our Daily Lives
A hope and a wish are two very different things. And yet, I catch myself using the two words interchangeably: “How I wish the pandemic would end”, “I hope the vaccines work so there won’t be another lockdown.”
How to Keep Going When You Feel Hopeless
It may be a new year already, but perhaps for some of us, life…
How Jesus Restored My Joy While I Battled Suicidal Thoughts
I shouldn’t be here. If we lived in a world where Jesus Christ didn’t exist, I would be just another statistic among the world’s teenage suicides. A quiet sufferer who one day decided she had enough and ended it all.
Rediscovering the Hope of Christ Through Carols
Considering how often I hear Christmas carols, I’ve only just realised that I don’t really pay close attention to its words. It was during a recent chapel service at my university, when we sang “O Holy Night”, that the lyrics struck me