The gentle wisdom of Lucas Cairns.
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Lucas Cairns is a talented musician, a loving husband and a father of 4. He is a Salvo officer who loves young people and is also a heart transplant recipient with a whole new lease of life. It will do you good to listen to this man explain how he has embraced the storms of life and how much he delights in the everyday miracles around him. To listen to some of Lucas Music click here.
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Christian Living 8 Financial Stewardship
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Australia is a wealthy country but if we don't make a plan for generosity and think well about it, we can be as stingy as anyone. On the other hand, it's OK to use money and enjoy life, so making sure I wasn't a cheap skate with my outfit for my daughters wedding, was something the lovely Sue controlled carefully. There were 6 helpers to keep me in line.
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Christian Living Series 12 Healthy Relationships in the Christian Context
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Healthy relationships are really important and we do well to consider the balance we have, so that work, church, hobbies and family get the sort of relational attention they deserve. Movie nights with my adult daughters and our cute puppy, Maggie has been a delight.
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Supervision Series Part 3: Conversations
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In this the final episode on my series with Andy King on Supervision, we chat with three Salvo phone assessment workers and my pastoral supervisor about the way supervision helps in skills development and capacity in the workplace and also how it makes staff feel personally valued and supported.
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Christian Living series 11 The Role of Mentorship in Christian Living
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Rick Warren met regularly with Billy Graham. We are never too old or successful to learn from others. We all need good mentors - even us oldies. Rick Warren continued to meet with Billy Graham even as he aged and his ministry was thriving. They remained friends until Billy death in 2018.
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Mark Curtis Repost
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Mark Curtis was an alcoholic and a drug addict for over 20 years. He ended up in jail and was mandated to do a Salvo rehab in Perth.
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Christian Living series 10 Overcoming Spiritual Dryness
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There will always have seasons of spiritual dryness. We are not robots and our emotional and physical resources sometimes get depleted. But knowing this helps us accept it and trust that fresh hope and vitality may not be far away. Pretending before God and our friends doesn't help, but being honest and vulnerable can provide some comfort the strength we need to hold on.
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Bethany Baillie. Honouring Zephaniah - Repost
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Bethany Baillie is married to BJ and is a Salvo officer living in Western Australia. She is a young woman with a huge heart for people on the margins. A true blue Salvo who cares deeply for others. Life was cruising along nicely, but falling pregnant just wasn't happening and so a journey of IVF was about to begin, when the unexpected happened. A little life began to be formed just before this process began. What a joy! However this joy was short lived and the baby did not survive. Bethany shares about her life and how running a half marathon was part...
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Christian living series 9 Disciplines for Spiritual Growth
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It's a bit of a trap to get so caught up with the busyness of life, that we stop growing and maturing and just plod along for years doing the same things. Practicing the disciplines that foster spiritual growth can help us stay fresh and vibrant if we carve out time for them. It's a bit of a trap to get so caught up with the busyness of life, that we stop growing and maturing and just plod along for years doing the same things. Practicing the disciplines that foster spiritual growth can help us stay fresh and vibrant if we carve out time for them.
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Tracy Briggs. Reposted
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Tracy is a salvo officer who despite a difficult childhood, has found her way to a place of hope and service to others. She is married to Steve and has three children and one grandson. Her story is inspirational and her spirit is a joy to experience. Warning* There is Domestic violence in this story.
info_outlineA distinct Christian virtue is the the mysterious capacity to love without agenda. Jesus ate with misfits and nobodies and loved them in a radical way. Not sure it did him much good, but He did it anyway.