Friendship that grows into commitment

It’s been exactly five years since we launched our very first public meeting in Kairos.  It took a year previous to this for our team to work together putting the strategy in place of how we thought Kairos would look.  The beginning days were days of dreaming, and the realisation that history was being written made life very exciting!  We met daily in our Kairos office to pray for the miracles we needed to plough ahead with what...

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The importance of Community

If ever we begin to think we can make life on our own, we are sadly mistaken.  Should we ever have the notion that we don’t need anyone in our lives, we are on a slippery slope to isolation and loneliness. I’ve never functioned very well on my own.   All of us are different, but however self-sufficient we feel we are, I believe there are times in our lives, many times, that we need people around us. Loneliness is a terrible affliction. The...

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The Call of God...and my bucket and mop

Photo: Alan Levine (Flickr: cogdog) I’ve often heard folk pray for God to ‘call them’.  It really should be the desire of everyone who has found Christ as their Saviour to do more for Him than we do in our everyday lives.  In whatever situation we are in, or whatever age we are, we should be aware that we could be doing a bit extra than normal.  Life kicks in and it’s hard.  Jobs are stressful and life is busy. ...

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Iron that dress!

By Palmer, Alfred T., photographer. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons We all dream about making a change in someone’s life.  We think that perhaps if we did this or if we did that, we could alter their whole outlook on life.  In our parenting years, we believe that if we set enough rules we can save our children the heartbreak that we ourselves went through, or protect them from the world or from some of our personal fears.  But actually,...

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In this world... but not of this world

So often, we think that when we become Christians, we need to totally denounce all our friendships, our relationships and separate ourselves from all that we've known so far.  We are indoctrinated into believing that the least possible contact with ‘the world’ is what’s needed for us to be holy and to purify ourselves unto God.  The only thing is that by doing this, we minimise the power of God in our lives.  His power is strong...

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Frica întâlnește Credința

Ca și ființă umană, ai experimentat deja frica și vei mai avea momente în care o vei experimenta.  Frica este ceva cu care ne luptăm încă de mici.  Poate să îți fie frică de întuneric, frică să fii singur, frică de clovni, frică de insecte, sau frică că ceva rău o să se întâmple unei persoane pe care o iubești.  Când eram copil, îmi era frică de întuneric.  Ca și copil, îmi aduc aminte că mama tot timpul avea o veioză...

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How far will we go?

These words have been coming to me all morning. The question raises its head over and over again: How far am I willing to love people into the Kingdom?  Am I willing to lay aside the long-standing mistaken beliefs that I was brought up with?  Am I able to overcome my own prejudices of who can or who cannot come to our church?  Can I lay aside my judgemental thoughts about who is acceptable to God?  First impressions so easily...

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