Tag archive: Joel
Barracking For The Wrong Team
She couldn’t believe I would go against my home town. Joel 3:1-21 Reference: “Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!”” Joel 3:10 NIV Explore: I was recently at a basketball game between my home city, Melbourne, and Cairns. While I have been to Cairns…
Who Is Your Favourite?
My husband will just chuckle and say he knows they have one Joel 2:28-32 Reference: “Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.” Joel 2:29 NIV http://bible.com/111/jol.2.29.niv Explore: My controversial husband likes to ask parents this terrible question: “Which child is your favourite?!” Of course, most…
Out Of Hours
It was rude to contact people before 9am and after 9pm Joel 2:1-27 Reference: ““Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”” Joel 2:12 NIV Explore: You know you have a good friend when there is no “out of hours” time on your communication. My…
When Life Brings Meaning
Some reflections were helpful and brought clarity and comfort Joel 1:1-20 Reference: “Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?” Joel 1:16 NIV Explore: After the September 11 attacks in America there were record numbers of people flocking to churches in the following…
Precious Possessions
As I walked around my house I realised there were only a few things that were truly precious to me. Joel 3:1-21 Reference: “For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.” Joel 3:5 NIV Explore: One particularly bad fire season I found myself at work and…