CONNECTED Adventist

The experiences we have with people can stick with us for a lifetime. Someone I knew used to tell me about their daily experiences with a person they worked with. Over time, I began to respect a person I'd never met, just from the stories this person told me about their work colleague. Never under estimate the power of your experience in the context of the Gospel, to draw people to a person (or Go...

Oh how those adolescent years can either build us to see our glimpses of our potential or shake us up and even MESS us up! Many people experienced some of the most difficult stages of identity formation during their high school years. For some us, we're still carrying the wounds we received long into our adulthood. Shannon shares with us how God used a simply interaction to transform his darkness...

Our past, our opinions and our ignorance can cause us to distort facts and Biblical truth to suit our preference or to back-up our communities of preference. It's time for all of us to take all the Bible goodness we've discovered (or had shared with us) back home and let God transform our preferences so that our opinion, on all Biblical concepts, are based on God's leading; not crowd thinking or c...

Having to move will often reveal to you just how much stuff you have that you don't need and that you don't actually want to take to your next location. It seems as though we accumulate excess things without even trying. Emotion excess can accumulate just as unintentionally as physical things. But it's best that we "downsize" and "declutter" our soul- sooner rather than later. Life is too short to...

My 4 week break was an answer to more than just one prayer- it was an answer to LIFE CHANGING prayers!!! I'm leaving!!! See ya, QLD and HEEEEELLO NNSW!!

Droughts and dry spells drain the life out of most things. Animals lack food, the trees loose their foliage and the grass becomes brown and it looses all its softness, but what happens when a Christian is going through a spiritual drought? We're told there's hope no matter how lifeless our spiritual life is and to "not give up", but how long do we have to wait before we finally get a 'spiritual do...

Have you ever met one those Christians that are always warning people to follow 'the truth' and to not be 'deceived'? One of those kind of SDAs came to my church this week. And although I fully agree with much of their concerns and their 'truth', i often hear only one perspective of Biblical truth from these kind of Christians. 'Doom and gloom' preaching must always be presented with the redemptiv...

We all have 'dirty laundry'. Some of us have multiple baskets of 'dirty laundry'. However, many of us keep those experiences hidden away even though; we've been washed in the blood of the lamb. But if we reflect on the Bible narrative- we'll find ourself pushing through the complicated and messy past of some of the most respected Bible personalities. And then, you have Enoch and Job. Their Biblica...

Calm down y'all! It's not what you think. Well, it kind of is but not really. The Bible was never intended to be read. It was meant to be studied and for its advice to guide us everyday. We're called to continually and inexhaustibly meditate and reflect on God's word- not just read it so we can check it off our morning routine list.

Forbidden things aren't always 'scary' looking. We don't need to be a genius to know that most people won't fall for things that look 'messed up'. The Devil is cunning and a great salesman- he has a way of making the forbidden appear enjoyable and 'pleasing to the eye'. But the Bible gives us a better way. Trust in God's counsels will always be the most powerful source of wisdom to fight against t...

17 million people watched the interview. 17 million people have an option about the interview. On this episode I share just one of those 17 million opinions about the interview and the aftermath of what Harry and Meghan shared.

There's a whole bunch of scared Christians in our churches. And I'm not surprised! Some churches seem to preach about 'doom and gloom' WAY more than they preach about God's glory THROUGH the 'doom and gloom'. End time events will always create fear, it's a scary chapter of Earth's history, but we must be very careful to not base the entire Christian journey and the Christian experience around one...

It seems like we're always fighting against someone or something. And if it's not something or someone, at times, we may find ourselves even fighting against God! The power of human free-will is the only thing that limit the power of the Omnipotent God of the universe. Free-will, allows Created beings to completely disregard the Creator's intent, and gives power for the Created beings to go comple...

Within the church and outside the church, we all have people we admire. You know, those people who seem to have the very things we dream we had; whether it's the grades, the popularity, career, looks or the Spiritual gifts, we all know someone who has something that leaves us 'wishing' we were like them. But every 'always happy' person has areas of discontentment in their life, the confident perso...

Emotional connection is crucial and necessary to the human existence. We were created to love and be loved. To know and be known. Yet, emotional human connection can also be the single source of all our heartache and our trauma. So what if you could find a risk-free way to have emotional connection without the danger? Let me introduce you to the friends that will *never hurt me- YouTubers! *never...

Most people wear masks- some just won't admit it! On this episode i discuss 2 masks I believe some people wear, one hides their reality and the other masks hides their character. Let's take the masks off fam- life is sweeter when we work through the character flaws we try and hid and when we find light in the darkness of our hidden pain.

The Seventh-day Adventist Conference's '10 Days of Prayer' initiative highlighted some EPIC RED FLAGS about revival! In a group discussion I was challenged to ask myself "what does REAL revival look like?". In my opinion, I think many of us have fallen for many lies and misconceptions when we talk about revival, and even conversion.

Online reviews can save us from spending money on a bad experience. Online, we give a lot of weight to people's opinion and we can even make their experience 'authoritative truth'. But what if their preferences are different to us? What if they have a bias attached to their experience? Not every online review reflects a legitimate rating.

Its early in the morning and both my dogs are barking, I have two choices- go see what they're barking at or yell at them to stop. When the Holy Spirit is making a noise you also have to options- address the conviction or drown out the Holy Spirit. One option will save you from the 'snake', the other- will let the 'snake' get closer!

They do! Well, my daughter would probably tell you they do. Do you believe in angels? Have you ever had an experience with an angel? My daughters believe they've had 2 interactions with angels in the last few months. What's stopping you from becoming an 'angel' to someone?

There are situations in life that call us to respond in a way that's not the norm for us. Sometimes, God is calling us to speak up in certain situations where things (and people) need to be challenged. Staying silent (or 'in bed') won't stop the noise of the loud, dominating and inconsiderate crowds in our life. Get out of bed peeps and go tell them to turn their nonsense OFF! All with God's promo...

Let's say that 2020- is what it is. For some, our year was painted with fear, pain, uncertainty, stress, loss and heartache and somehow, others have experienced a year of regeneration and renew. How can that be? The seasons of life don't have a date or a year. The seasons of life unexpectedly come to reality and when they do, we have to ride it.

We all know that the 25th of December is a significant date WORLDWIDE! What do we do with a date that Biblically isn't Jesus' birth date but is globally recognised as his birthday? Well, let me share with you what this holiday season has looked like for me throughout my walk with Jesus and my journey to making the 25th of December a significant date of my year.

Humility can be a hard Christian pill to swallow. Even harder is the balance between humility and service, and boundaries and self-respect. But regardless of how challenging the concept of humility is in the Christian life, Jesus called us all of His followers to humility and He said the humble will inherit the re-created earth!

Sorry fam, MacFan decided to join the discussion and it was way louder than I thought it would be "Sitting on the fence" can be safer than crossing over to the wrong side. Leaving church and leaving God can become a decision that makes us live everyday, hoping we could go back. I hope you can prayerfully trust that 'the paddock' is better than the highway, until you actually believe that it is. An...