Rob's Rave and Silvina's Stories Living life at the end of the world
Experiences
It was Time
Yep. I had decided that wrestling with my hair was too much, so I did the best thing that anybody could do… cut it all off.
Starving Yourself Can Be Healthy
It started from a feeling that God was asking me to fast… after all, fasting is talked about all through the Bible. Then it continued with a realisation that most of the food I was eating was not really good for me. Finally, it all came to a head when I received a book I [...]
Correcting Your Mistakes – on Camera
The successes, and failures, of trying to fix an expensive video camera with the wrong tools.
Birthday in Oz
When I turned 40, it was a really big deal. Unfortunately for me, the people around me did not think the same way, and so my 40th birthday came and went without any fanfare at all. I guess when you are in the middle of Peru, surrounded by students and constrained by activities relating to [...]
Where Has the Help Gone?
Loaded with a huge pile of books balanced precariously on top of each other, I turn the corner for the umpteenth time and pass through the crowd of young people gathered outside after dinner. One jumps up from his conversation and walks beside me asking if I needed help. It quite surprised me. This was [...]
Conquering the Snow
A Day of Small Beginnings It was a bleak day when I set out towards town, ducking down to follow alongside a burbling stream with the aim of walking along the rocky beaches facing Lake Nahuel Huapi. This was a more preferable route although a little longer than that of following the roads. The rocky [...]
Fleeing for My Life
What just happened to my friend Paul and me still has my head reeling. It felt like I was living a movie scene… except they were real people chasing me, with real bullets flying over my head… and I was in some serious danger. Always Walking It all began as we were walking back to [...]
Instantly Healed
Although I believe that God can heal, it is very rare when I am praying for somebody that they are healed right then on the spot. You see, my mum was healed of the fast acting strand of multiple-sclerosis over twenty years ago, and my shoulder was instantly restored to normal, from being virtually pulled [...]
Identifying and Obeying Our Values
A doctor seated beside me told me of how he and his Catholic priest would head over to his place for a number of beers. Sometimes they would get so caught up in their conversations that they would drink until they had become drunk. His question was, "what harm is there in two guys getting [...]
What are “labels” except division
So many times I have heard people talk about this denomination or that denomination or this “religion” or that “religion” and so on. The reality is that we are all simply people standing before a living God. All of this talk simply creates divisions; an “us” against “them” mentality. Having grown up without knowing much [...]
Kids in Church
Today I was in church watching the kids sitting there in their seats. Forced to go by their parents, they showed no interest at all in the proceedings around them, be it the sermon, notices, or the worship and singing. It seemed to me that they were really only enduring their time in the seat [...]
Old Thoughts Revisited
I wrote this comment on the church back in May 2004. It was how I was feeling then, and it is still how I feel now (note, this was originally written on a completely different blog but they are the same blog now): I am at a loss. Everything in me wants to fellowship with [...]
Does God Speak?
Here I am at the YWAM International Workshop in Brazil and many things have been happening here. One of the craziest things has been that there have been a number of different people praying for me… and even though they are from different parts of the world (USA, Chile, Argentina) each one has prayed almost [...]