Everybody Always

Becoming Love in a World full of Setbacks and Difficult People

1. Creepy People - We Don't need to be who we are used to be ; God sees who we're becoming - and we're becoming love

2.  Meeting Carol- God doesn't give us promises; He gives us each other

3. Love Everybody, always- Love one another. ' what is simple often isn't easy; what is easy often doesn't last.

4. The Yellow Truck- Don't tell people what they want; tell them who they are

5. Limo Driver- Don't build a castle when you can build a kingdom

6. Skydiving - God was with us so we'd be with each other

7. A Day at the museum- It doesn't matter what our faith looks like, it matters what it is

8. The Pizza Place - What we've spent our lives collecting may not be worth it

9. From the light house window- Everyone hits a couple of notes wrong, keep playing your song

10. three green lights - we don't need as much confirmation as we think we do. The difference between prudent pause and persistent paralysis

11. Last one, best one- God often uses our blind spots to reveal Himself to us

The Power of a Parent's Blessing

1. Create a culture of blessing in your family and in your community by blessing your friends, neighbours and coworkers
2. If you are married, make a regular habit of praying together as a couple daily and speaking a blessing over each other.
3. Receive ministry to be healed of past cursing of identity
4. Begin to separate identify from behaviour when relating to and disciplining your children.
5. Develop a regular habit of having a Sabbath meal together as a family once a week.
6. Consider becoming a change agent by inviting one other family to dinner on your family blessing night
7. Embrace and use the power of blessing at the 7 critical stages of life

• Conception
• Time in the womb
• At birth
• During infancy and early childhood
• At puberty and release them into their adult identities
• Bless your children at the time of their marriage
• Bless your parents in their older age 

Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

1. Calling
Principle: Nothing is more important in your life than being one of Gods tools to form a human soul.

2. Grace
Principle: God never calls you to a task without giving you what you need to do it. He never sends you without going with you.

3. Law
Principle: Your children need GO'd slaw but you cannot ask to law to do what only grace can accomplish

4. Inability
Principle: Recognizing what you are unable to do is essential to good parenting.

5. Identity
Principle: If you are not resting as a parent in your identity of Christ, you will look for identity in your children.

6. Process
Principle: You must be committed as a parent to long view parenting because change is a process and not an event

7. Lost
Principle: As a parent you're not dealing just with bad behaviour but a condition that causes bad behaviour

8. Authority
Principle: One of the foundational heart issues in teh life of every child is authority. Teaching and modeling the protective beauty of authority is one of the foundations of good parenting

9. Foolishness
Principle: The foolishness inside your children is more dangerous to them than the temptation outside of them. Only God's grace has teh power to rescue fools.

10. Character
Principle: Not all thhe wrong your children do is a direct rebellion to authority; much of the wrong is the result of a lack of character.

11. False Gods
Principle: You are parenting a worshiper, so its important to remember that what rules your child's heart will control his behaviour.

12. Control
Principle: The goal of parenting is not control of behaviour, but rather heart and life change

13. Rest
Principle: It is only rest in Gods presence and grace that will make you a joyful and patient parent

14. Mercy
Principle: No parent gives mercy better than one who is convinced that he is desperately needs it himself.

How's Your Soul?

A easy to read book that leaves you thinking. 

Growing Deep in Faith

Started reading this for devotions after I was challenged on what I was doing everyday for devotions. Another trying period and I was running on empty, without faith. Walking by sight and not by faith. This book is made of short excerpts on how to live by faith.

The Kiss of Heaven

Borrowed this from the church library after reading the 'Art of Mentoring' by Darlene Zschech. She has a way of inspiring you to believe in God's greater plans and this book was how we could experience God's favour as we seek His blessing to pursue the dream He has planted in our hearts. It took me a while to read this as it has been quite a dry/distracted spell but it provided timely refreshment. It helped me a dream a little more again.

Deep Magic Dragons & Talking Mice

Bought this book as a favour to a friend as I was going to a christian bookshop. My first thought was what sort of title was it ' deep magic dragons & talking mice?' But it turns out to be a snappy taste of some of the more impactful ideas of C.S. Lewis. One of C.S. Lewis strengths is explaining complex terms in every day analogies and this further simplifies it to the reader.