Resilience is probably one of my favourite character adjectives, one that illuminates fortitude and an unwavering image. However, I cannot claim my resilience as my own. If I were to say, ‘100percent that I earnt and deserved my resilience on my own without any help’, I would be making a fool and a liar of myself.…
I know a lot of us have heard the statement you are what you eat, but this is not limited to the physical food you put in your body. Everything we place into our body has a positive or a negative effect on us. What you put in always has a way of coming out.…
They say that your body is a temple, but what does that really entail? What does it take to get your body into a state that is worthy to be a temple for God? Surely it requires sacrifices and missing out on what others are doing, right? Like missing out on a highschool party on…
Treat others as you would like to be treated. What would Jesus do? These principles are great to live by, however, if taken out of context can be quite damaging. Please don’t get me wrong, I do believe there is a lot of truth in these statements, but for a long time, I had a…
How do you think? Are you an optimist, with the tendency to expect the best possible outcome, to dwell on the most hopeful aspects of a situation? Or are you a pessimist, with the tendency to see the worst in things and expect the worst possible outcome? Let’s consider how we think, how we can…
I was born into an Adventist family. I grew up going to sabbath school every Saturday morning, sitting in the pews for church and doing Pathfinders. It hasn’t been smooth sailing all the time. It’s been through the lows and everyday life that I have discovered more and more why I’m a ‘sevvie’. Here are…
Love is such an extensive theme! Something we all long for—whether from father, mother, or some other source such as friends… It’s something that we give (shown by our actions) to those who we hold dear to our hearts. Something that God bestowed on us through the gift of His only begotten Son and then…
In her book Why You Are Australian: A Letter to My Children, expatriate Australian writer Nikki Gemmell reflects on various aspects of Australian-ness, particularly in contrast to her adopted home in London, including the Australian ambivalence toward religion. “As an adult I’d never done church—it was for people in strange places like Cooranbong,” she writes.…
I’ve always referred to myself as a Christian. Whether that was growing up in an Assembly of God church, or now, as a 24 year old proudly identifying as a Seventh-day Adventist. Although I was always a Christian, I never understood what that meant until God lead me to an Adventist church. The Adventist church…
What Is Faith? Let’s see what the bible says about faith: Hebrews 11:1-3(GNTD): [1] “To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.” [2] “It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God’s approval.” [3] “It is by faith…