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Love Language #1 - Words of Affirmation
Who doesn't love a good compliment? I love a compliment. Any compliment will do, but a compliment from my husband means more to me than any other. For people like me who have words of affirmation as...
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Love Language #2 Quality Time
The second love language we will be visiting at Life on a Hill is Quality Time. As the name of this love language suggests it is not just spending time together but actually spending quality time...
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God's Greatness through Creation. {On My Mind}
My bible study group has begun a new series focusing on the last half of Isaiah. If you haven't read Isaiah, I encourage you to do so. Isaiah was a prophet who spoke to the nation of Israel, pointing...
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Love Language #3 It's the Thought That Counts
Is there anything better than presents? image credit No really, I'm being serious here. I love presents. Love them, love them, love them. I love to give them and I love to receive them. I like it when...
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Teaching Jesus to our kids: Some helpful resources
What a privilege it is for parents/ carers to be able to share Jesus with our little ones. It is too important a task to leave the responsibility to Sunday School teachers or our church (although they...
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Love Languages #4: Let's Get Physical
We've talked about true words of affirmation, spending quality time together, and how it's the thought that counts when giving gifts. Today, it's my turn to talk about Physical Touch as a love...
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Love Languages #5: Loving through Serving.
The last of the love languages we will be looking at is Acts of Service.When you think of acts of service, what comes to mind? Someone doing the dishes for you? Someone making you a cup of coffee?...
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What's the Bible all about then?
Like many people growing up, I heard a lot of Bible stories. I attended church with my family. I attended Bible school (similar to Sunday school) and scripture classes at school. My parents read the...
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Walking the Hard Line
It's such a hard thing sometimes. This whole faith thing. A hard line to walk, a hard balance to find. We live in a world where there is no definitive definition of truth; everything is subject to...
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Thank you God that...
A week or so ago, I wrote a post for my personal blog about teaching my daughter (and myself) about thankfulness. At the conclusion of the post, I reflected: "We can measure our days (and our lives)...
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Staying On The Track.
Our backpacks were loaded with food and other supplies required for a night's camping as we began our two day trek through the lush rainforest. We'd been looking forward to the chance to explore a...
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Run for Their Life
Growing up, there was always the three of us. Three girls all the same age, friends since we could remember. We had play dates almost every Sunday after church, sometimes all of us, other times just...
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The Two Things You Can't Do in Heaven: Part 1
I once heard a someone say “There are two things you can’t do in heaven” They were: Sin and Bring people into relationship with Jesus. The question then came “So what do you think we are still here...
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The Two Things You Can't Do in Heaven: Part 2
In the first part of this series I wrote about the two things we can't do in heaven. They are sin, and bringing people into a relationship with Jesus. For how ever long we have left on earth we want...
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Disappear
If you know the answer, why do you still ask the question? I keep thinking these thoughts lately, lost in a haze of depression induced fuzziness. As a Christian, I am adequately equipped to withstand...
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Homesick
Three and a half months ago, my family upped and moved to Japan. My husband is a scientist and completed his PhD over 3 years ago; part of being a credible scientist with a PhD is to do at least one...
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Making Time for God
As a mum of three girls under four life is busy. I often feel like I am bouncing from one thing to the next never achieving the things I set out to do. If I am not changing a nappy, then I am picking...
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Time with God: a life-changer
Spending time with God, in prayer and Bible reading, is something I've never done as well as I would like. Of course, I have known how important it is to spend time with God, but there has often...
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Enough
It's been far too long since we have published here on the Hill. Between the five of us there have been babies born, international reallocations and husbands working away. Add to that the 17 kids...
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Hidden in the Heart
When I was a little girl, my mum used to read me Bible stories every night. I had the most wonderful picture bible (I've sadly never found anything as good for my own kids), and a collection of Little...
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Christian Parenting. What's the Difference?
So for those of you who don’t follow me (Jess) over at my personal blog, you may be unaware that I haven’t recently self published my very first book. (Due for release mid June, you can pre-order a...
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We All Need Saving
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Or so the cliche says, and maybe it's right. Sometimes there doesn't seem to be very much normal about the way God does things.I never thought I would be selling...
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Have You Made a Decision or a Commitment?
The reason that the church is not making more of an impact in our society is that many church members made a decision about Christ, but have not made a commitment to Christ. {Charles Stanley}Last year,...
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Look at Me
It was a day like any other.Or so I thought.Wednesday morning, I got all the kids ready for school, kissed Taylah good bye at the car, Bridie goodbye at the path to her class, and BJ goodbye on the...
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Speak Up For Injustice: Human Trafficking.
The first time I became fully aware of human trafficking was on a date night, watching Liam Neeson's Taken. The movie tells the story of a teenage girl who travels to Paris with a friend where they are...
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