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Discover how God gave a soldier with PTSD, a renewed heart towards Muslims

by | Jun 30, 2016

He was deployed as an avionics technician, but he was also responsible for playing the bagpipes at ramp ceremonies, piping off his fallen comrades. In his first ceremony, he had to say goodbye to a Canadian soldier he’d befriended just three weeks earlier. For four months, he took part in three ramp ceremonies a week, with up to six bodies in each. In an attempt to forget everything he took to drinking five bottles of wine a week and whiskey to finish, just so he could get to sleep. But it didn’t stop the nightmares…

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Overcoming the ‘I Can’t’ Mentality

Jun 30, 2016

‘We saw the giants … and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight.’ Numbers 13:33 NKJV Wherever you go, you take your mentality with you. After four hundred years as captives in Egypt, the Israelites developed a slave mentality. Because they were dominated for so long, they never learned to be decision makers. They [...]

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Today’s Soulfood Readings

Jun 30, 2016

1 Samuel 11–13 23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! 25 “Woe to [...]

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At seventeen he became legally blind …Discover how radio helped him to see clearly

Jun 29, 2016

His childhood was marked by arguments over God. One of his parents was Anglican, the other Catholic. He attended Sunday school and two churches, but in their confusion, he said his family didn’t know where God was. As a teenager, he left the church behind, and he says he might never have gone back. But at seventeen, his vision started to fade due to an irreversible optic nerve condition. Within six months, he was legally blind…

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Prayer Gives You Access to God

Jun 29, 2016

Dr James Kennedy said: ‘I read an interesting book by an unbeliever who attempted to “do in” the Christian faith. Despite his lack of belief, I found insightful something he said regarding prayer.

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Today’s Soulfood Readings

Jun 29, 2016

1 Samuel 8–10 13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and [...]

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When ‘Ana’ goes head to head with God! Discover how a woman is called out of captivity and clothed with strength

Jun 28, 2016

As a young girl, she grew up in a Christian family and was a healthy, high achiever in all aspects of teenage life. But in her senior year, her father attempted suicide. It shook her to the core, and with the added stress of her final exams, she was so worried that the thought of food made her physically ill. She became increasingly sick with anorexia. “I had become so introverted, I stopped going to church and socialising with people”. It was only when she reached 37kg that she…

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Start Now

Jun 28, 2016

‘An intelligent person aims at wise action … a fool starts off in many directions.’ Proverbs 17:24 GNT Successful people have one thing in common: they’ve developed the habit of doing what unsuccessful people aren’t willing to do. We all want more money, but we don’t all want more work. We’d all like to be [...]

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Today’s Soulfood Readings

Jun 28, 2016

1 Samuel 4–7 23:1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, 3 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. 4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on [...]

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Discover how God’s plan changed this German man’s life. A new country, a new career results in bringing hope to Indigenous street kids

Jun 27, 2016

As an 11 year old boy in Germany, he remembers seeing a video about Australia and longed to move there. At the age of 19, his dream came true. He moved to New South Wales and studied to be a doctor chiropractic medicine. He married and set up his practice in Cooma. He later separated from his wife and sons, but after overcoming his fear of entering a church, this doctor made a commitment to Christ. “Yet again, I heard that same voice, ’go to church!’. And when I walked through the door, it was like…

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Building Real Relationships

Jun 27, 2016

‘He now showed them the full extent of His love.’ John 13:1 NIV People spend hours every day on social networks like Facebook—in many cases because they’re lonely. Now, there’s nothing wrong with interacting with others this way. In fact, social media offers one of the greatest tools the Church has ever had for reaching [...]

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Today’s Soulfood Readings

Jun 27, 2016

1 Samuel 1–3 34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart [...]

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Eternal life could not be snatched from this man. How did this man bear witness to God?

Jun 26, 2016

When he heard about the fire that had started at Pinery (South Australia), he knew he had to help. He left around midday to volunteer at the frontline, fighting the flames. All this time, he wasn’t answering his phone. His wife got conflicting messages about his whereabouts, and heard that a man who’d been working with him had been taken to hospital with severe burns. Multiple reports said her husband was safe, but as time went on, she started to worry…

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Today’s Soulfood Readings

Jun 26, 2016

Exodus 34:29–35 2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. 4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they [...]

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Beauty Is, as Beauty Does

Jun 26, 2016

‘Be beautiful in your heart.’ 1 Peter 3:4 CEV Princess Diana was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the world. Yet she disliked what she saw in the mirror. This led to an eating disorder known as bulimia, which is caused by self-loathing. And the ‘beauty cult’ has infected many of [...]

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God Wants to Bless You Financially

Jun 25, 2016

‘You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion.’ 2 Corinthians 9:11 NIV When you give to fulfil the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth’ (Matthew 6:10 KJV), He will make sure you have everything you need when you need it. That’s [...]

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Today’s Soulfood Readings

Jun 25, 2016

Song of Solomon 5–8 23 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, 24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’ 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. [...]

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A Christian man thanks God for ISIS. Discover what it is like to follow Jesus in one of the most dangerous countries.

Jun 24, 2016

In this story a Brisbane pastor shares his visit to Iraq and explains why an Iraqi Christian man said that he was thankful of ISIS. He left for Iraq in tears, because he was leaving his family behind. Then he left Iraq in tears, because he’d met brothers and sisters in Christ, who were showing incredible faith in the face of terrible suffering and persecution…

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Today’s Soulfood Readings

Jun 24, 2016

Song of Solomon 1–4:13 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. 16 And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not [...]

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How to Become a Good Leader

Jun 24, 2016

‘Teach the wise, and they will become even wiser.’ Proverbs 9:9 NCV Whether God has called you to be a leader in church, in business, or at home, here are two important principles you must always practise: (1) Reach for people who stretch you. Solomon said, ‘Teach the wise, and they will become even wiser.’ [...]

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You are not a robot …You have a choice! Why did this man stick with God, when everything was falling apart?

Jun 23, 2016

He grew up in a country town and as a lad he was a church ‘server’, choirboy and paid bell ringer. “I always attended Sunday School. We kids did as we were told. Mum made sure of that.” In his late teens, peer group pressure got hold of him and he moved away from the church and during this time he met his future young wife at a local dance. He didn’t know she’d become pregnant…

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Today’s Soulfood Readings

Jun 23, 2016

2 Corinthians 11:16–13:14 22:1 And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, 2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, 3 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other servants, saying, [...]

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Media is becoming the bridge to bringing Australians to faith in God

Media is becoming the bridge to bringing Australians to faith in God

Jun 22, 2016

E.A Mullen, Guest Writer. The Spiritual Condition in Australia The gap between traditional churches and the community is widening. How can we bridge it? Falling church attendance. The rejection of traditional religion and the embrace of new age spirituality. The demonisation of Christianity by mainstream media leading to a general mistrust of churches. These are common [...]

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