We control our environment by creating routines and patterns. Consider how you feel when the supermarket changes the placement of products on the shelves. Confusion, irritation, time-wasting retracking steps trying to find that elusive item. In some ways, habits and routines help us to cope with the huge amount of information in the world around [...]
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… “organic church.” The term is fluid, but it contains at least three ingredients: Frustration with the-church-as-we-know-it, a focus on people (vs. programs) and mission (vs. institutional maintenance), and a vision to transform the world. * – I can relate to this. Would love to see more. Anyone who thinks this way near Hamilton, [...]
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- these links open in new screen Homeschooling - also check out www.nzhomeed.wordpress.com for New Zealand homeschooling information and helps Recipes Lapbooking - presentation folders Church – includes gathering, assembly, following Jesus Mother’s Encouragement – includes parenting My family’s web presence: The Counsellor – husband Kiwikids – children
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Fire in my Bones by J Lee Grady http://strangmail.com/newslettersignup/ - subscribe to his newsletter http://charismamag.com/index.php/fire-in-my-bones/22308 http://charismamag.com/index.php/fire-in-my-bones/22308-from-the-deep-south-a-cry-for-racial-healing excerpt: Jesus told the Pharisees that their holier-than-thou traditions actually nullified the Word of God. They were obsessed with washing their hands and dishes to keep themselves pure; Jesus was focused on touching the untouchables of society so that God’s [...]
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http://aholyexperience.com/2008/10/draw-god.html Imitate the imitator – read in Ann’s blog of the boy copying the artist with the easel set up in front of a famous painting in a museum. … “Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ” (Paul in 1 Cor. 11:1). … Our children imitate those they spend time with, [...]
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I was brought up to go to Church on Sunday. That’s the first call on your time each Sunday. I have wholeheartedly believed this – til the end of last year. Factors that have contributed to changes in my thinking about what church (small ‘c’) is, include: multiple migraines (and not wanting to endure teenage angst, [...]
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