by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | Show Love
Love and relationships are confusing and complicated concepts for the modern generation. There are no clear standards as to what is and what is not acceptable or appropriate. Our young people are taught how to have safe sex, but not safe relationships. They are taught...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | Bible Study
23.1.16, Luke 23:46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.’ When he had said this, he breathed his last. It feels like it all happens so fast. In a matter of a chapter Jesus goes from being arrested and on trial to being dead...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | Choose Well, The Purposed Initiative
This may be me revealing my naivety, but I refuse to accept the platitude that people get divorced because it’s easy. There is nothing easy about divorce. Perhaps the actual signing of the documents is fairly straight forward, but that path that leads you to and from...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | The Purposed Initiative
It’s always interesting how things evolve and grow. For me this journey started to take direction in late 2011 when a friend and I signed up to a gym because we both wanted to get fitter. I was overweight, unhealthy and knew something needed to change. That decision...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | Be Purposed
He could steadily feel the pressure building. Moment by moment his time drew closer, it wouldn’t be long before it was his turn. A sweat broke on his forehead and his hands became clammy. One by one they went before him, some were prepared and fared well, facing the...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | The Waiting Place
”I have run, I have crawled, I have called these city walls, only to be with you… But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” U2 What happens when the reason you are trapped in The Waiting Place is because you have no where else to go? When you start drifting...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | The Waiting Place
David looked over his shoulder. His men were hungry and ragged, battle weary and frightened. He didn’t blame them. The wilderness of Maon was sparse and desolate, with little cover. The only safe time to move forward was under cover of night, and hope they would make...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | The Waiting Place
“Userhat!” An authoritative voice echoed off the stone walls of the prison. “UserHAT!” A short, plump man, with grime clinging to his skin and thick stubble growing from his once clean shaven head groaned and rolled onto his back. “I’m sleeping,” he yelled back....
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | The Waiting Place
“Not again”. The Hebrew Prince of Egypt knelt down next to the lamb that had managed to get itself stuck in a thorn bush. The soft pink skin beneath her fleece was already covered in scarlet scratches. ‘Seh, seh, seh’ the Prince breathed rhythmically, easing the...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | The Waiting Place
“You can get so confused that you’ll start to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place…for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | Bible Study
“And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and some of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose...
by thepurposedinitiave | Feb 6, 2016 | Break Free
Peter’s situation seemed hopeless. He was locked in a prison, put there for no other reason than being a leader in the Christian community. He had been imprisoned by a king who planned on giving him a very public execution simply to please the Jewish religious...
