Discipline and Discipleship

I was thinking today about how I can better discipline my children, and how to discipline them in love, and then I thought, “What would Jesus do?” I thought about how Jesus might have disciplined His own children if He had had children on earth. I know He wasn’t married and didn’t have kids,

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Education

I recently read a book called “For the Children’s Sake” written by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, examining the educational foundations for home and school. The author devotes a large amount of space in her book to the educational methods of Charlotte Mason, a Christian educationalist who lived some time ago. I found it a very interesting read and found myself not just ‘reading’ the book but almost ‘studying’ it,

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Marie: My Story

For a long time now, I’ve been thinking about writing a blog post about ‘my story’ for those who don’t know me so well – recent friends, new acquaintances, even family, so today I’m actually getting round to it…

During this blog post, I want to mention and highlight a few wonderful people who have all played significant roles in different seasons of my life.

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Update from Zimbabwe

Well it has been one and a half months since my husband and I landed at Harare Airport, Zimbabwe, so here’s a brief summary of what we’ve been up to so far. Our time here has been very fruitful, productive and joy-filled! We have achieved everything we set out to accomplish by the grace of God,

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ONE People

I’m reading a book at the moment called Glorious Intruder by Joni Eareckson Tada, and it’s challenging me in many ways to go deeper in my relationship with God. I recently read part of a chapter of the book which made me think about ONE People, which is the church plant Ant and I will be joining in August in Harare,

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To Serve

I’m currently reading a Bill Hybels book, and as I was lying on my bed reading this evening, the Holy Spirit impressed the following message on me: “The reason why I’m calling you and Anthony to move to Zimbabwe is very simple: to serve”.

Now this had absolutely nothing to do with what I was reading in my book,

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The Real Africa

The real Africa is the one they never show you. The real Africa is hidden beneath a veneer of poverty and hunger and death; a cancerous mass on the face of the earth the rest of the world term homogenous "Africa"...

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A precious 3 weeks in my home country!

After a long and grueling 15-hour overnight flight from London to Harare, via Joburg, Ant and I finally arrived at my parents’ house to the warm greetings, hugs and kisses of my family. In the past year, they hadn’t changed much at all (apart from my daddy’s and brother Andre’s stomachs appearing a few inches wider 😉 It was great to sit down and catch-up with everyone over a delicious cool lunch of cold meats and salads,

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God is Funny!

God has got a brilliant sense of humour! He tends to give me things I haven’t even prayed for, but things that I’ve thought about and want. There are a number of small examples I could give, but for the sake of time and my fingers, I’ll just give a few…

For example,

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