Maybe in your yearning for the spiritual you are driven by the thirst for experience. Sadly many forms of spirituality that ‘thirst for experience’ hold any experience as ultimate. Thus experience because authoritative in their quest for spirituality. Of course there is nothing wrong with thirsting for experience in your relationship with God. The phenomenal growth of the Pentecostal and charismatic movements…
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In your yearning for the spiritual, are you yearning for increased relationships or greater connectedness? Now I am aware of the many varieties of ‘connectedness’ that are on offer from our ‘spiritually thirsty’ world but the one true spirituality that actually delivers for all eternity is greater connectedness with the God of the Bible. Here are a few reasons: The God of…
As we spend some time exploring what it means to be spiritual it is worth our while to ask ourselves the question, what is spirituality and where is it found? There are plenty of opinions on this but I want to run one past you. “Spirituality in its broad contemporary usage expresses the longing of the human spirit for an experience of…
It seems that almost every month in Adelaide I could attend some sort of show that is promoting human spirituality. It could be something big like the Body, Mind and Spirit show that is held each year or it could be the smaller expo’s that are held in the suburbs. The search for the spiritual is huge in our western world. Not…
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years! Mark Twain Families are complex and some have caused untold heartache and pain that have rolled down to…
Your spouse is talking to you about their day, your eyes are glued to the TV and you manage to make the occasional grunt… then the phone rings. It’s one of your mates, the conversation flows and you listen to every word they say. Your spouse hears you responding animatedly, showing interest expressing sympathy and enjoying the conversation. The problem many of…
This is the second last of a series in which I’ve looked at seven aspects of building a strong relationship. As a teenager, I was given a Christian book that covered a whole range of subjects but the first chapter was all about sex. The author argued that he dealt with it at the front because most teens would flip to that…
In any relationship you get plenty of opportunities to hurt each other and in a marriage relationship, you get them all the time. Now I do not meet many people who get married with the intention of hurting the person that they claim to love. But I do meet plenty of people in their marriage relationship who have hurt each other. In…
I read recently that marriage represents similar struggles found in a three legged race. It is entirely normal for a couple to have disagreements. Those who make a success of their marriage are those who tackle their problems together and overcome them. What causes disagreements in your marriage? A survey in the UK in 1998 revealed that the number one cause of…
There are plenty of times in a marriage when both husband and wife would feel that they do not feel loved anymore. Have you ever felt that the person you pledged to spend the rest of your life with does not show you any love? I remember a couple who wanted their marriage vows to go something like, “till our love runs…