Name: Kate Lon Ho Kee Age: 17 Summer Camp: Juniors – Hawqua, VIC 1. Was this your first summer camp? First time being a leader, yes. However, I was a camper when I was younger. 2. What made you sign up for summer camp? I was talking to my brother, Joshua, and he was talking…
Dear Heavenly Father, God, you are mighty, and your ways and thoughts are far above my own. I cannot even fathom your power or your goodness. I praise your name for you are the only one worthy of my love and affection. There is no other like you. Thank you for always loving me even…
On a Monday afternoon at the time of 1:35 pm, the year 1 business students of Fulton Adventist University received a confirmation email of their outreach to the outer district of Nadi town. Upon receiving the email, I believe that I wasn’t the only one who was nervous of this trip as this was our…
I was around 12 years old when I decided Christianity wasn’t for me. The reasons were numerous: I had seen the church criticise people I loved, winning Bible quizzes had gotten to my head rather than my heart and I couldn’t see enough evidence for Jesus in my life. The reasons weren’t new, and they…
Worship, despite supposedly being a simple task is a topic of much controversy. Instead of worship being about God, we make worship about ourselves. “Do we allow drums?”, “Should we sing hymns?”, “Should we have an actual worship band or should we instead have a choir, or an orchestra, or one singer?” and, “do we…
Tuesday 6:30 pm, I have just returned from a short run and am about to make dinner. I’m doing this program called “Couch to 5k” because I decided it was time to improve my cardio health and, because I couldn’t find a program called “Office chair to 5k,” I figured this one would do. I’ve…
In Judges 19:1-30 there is the story about the minor wife of a Levite. This woman returns to her father’s house, and the Levite eventually goes to redeem her. However, the return journey is similar to the disturbing final night of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19). The Levite lodges at a Benjamite city, rather than…
Routine. That’s the word that comes to mind when I think of church. Waking up on a Saturday morning, putting on my nice ‘church-clothes,’ going and sitting in the same pew, with the same people, standing and singing the same songs, going through the same motions. When did church become a monotonous, repetitive activity? I…
We have used the “Church is not a building” line so many times that—not only have we forgotten that, at least in some ways, a church so obviously is a building—we rarely pause to think what other temptations we could similarly rebut by adapting this simple statement. So let me suggest some other worthwhile applications…
Sometimes when we repeat a true statement too many times, we begin to forget the ways in which the statement might be untrue. One such statement is this: “Church is not a building.” How many times have we heard it without pausing to think about what we are saying? Of course, it is true. Church…