Category: Developing Faith

  • When “Sami” met Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    When “Sami” met Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    Reaching Jesus Through the Roof by David Duncan at David’s Daily Dose Greetings. My name is Samiya, but my friends call me Sami. I’m a carpenter from Capernaum. Would you believe I once worked with Jesus of Nazareth? It was back when he was a carpenter too. But then came my accident. One day, some other carpenter friends were…

  • When Anna met Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    When Anna met Jesus…Encounters with Jesus

    Morning everyone, this is the first post in our series about encounters with Jesus written by Andy B who you may know from the Berry Bunch Family. If you have not yet discovered the Berry Bunch then I hope you will drop by…you will be blessed. There is something very special in this story which…

  • Encounters with Jesus..

    Encounters with Jesus..

    I am excited to share some upcoming posts in this season of Lent about encounters people had with Jesus and how those encounters impacted them. The gospels are full of stories of people meeting Jesus…all sorts of different people..rich,poor,educated,religious leaders, foreigners,the sick and dying, the outcasts, prisoners,authority figures and ordinary folk…..people we can all identify…

  • Fulfillment..

    Fulfillment..

    This week my prayer is from Philippians 3:8 about finding true fulfillment in Jesus Christ and this timely quote from Coretta Scott-King the wife of Dr. Martin Luther-King was part of my readings this week. ‘I’m fulfilled in what I do,’ she wrote, ‘I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes –…

  • Thermometer or Thermostat? Flashback Friday

    Thermometer or Thermostat? Flashback Friday

    When we were away at our church weekend we were reminded that as Christians we can choose to be thermometers or thermostats. So we know a thermometer takes the temperature but it can’t alter the temperature. It just tells it as it is. There are plenty of us that can have an opinion on situations…

  • Lost and found…

    Lost and found…

    Recently, our little cat Leia went missing. It couldn’t have happened at a worst time. My mum, Pam had recently passed away and we were in the middle of preparing the funeral. At first we didn’t realise that she was missing. We were pre-occupied with other things, but then realisation dawned that we had not…

  • Acceleration and Multiplication..

    Acceleration and Multiplication..

    It seems fitting in a way that when I was pondering on my word for 2024 that the Lord would remind me and give me two words again- Acceleration and Multiplication. I have received these words from the Lord before in 2020 so I pray that this year of 2024 we will see an Acceleration…