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15/01/2025

Water slides. Always a popular summertime activity.

Check out this slide - you land in the Mediterranean Sea in Sicily.

Would you have a go?

Lizzie

15/01/2025

And here is the link to a beautiful piano version …

Johann Sebastian Bach"Jesu bleibet meine Freude" from Cantata No. 147, (version for piano arr Myra Hess)Alexandra Dovgan (piano)Stockholm, KONSERTHUSETFrom a...

14/01/2025

Started the day with a beach walk & a chin wag with a friend. How is this view?

I was tempted to see if I could walk on water. 🤣

Lizzie

14/01/2025

Obey God! 💙

14/01/2025

Throw out your fears

‘There is no fear in love.’ 1 John 4:18 NIV

When you were young and said a bad word, your parents may have threatened to wash your mouth out with soap. Well, if fear is a dirty word, then faith in God’s unconditional love for you is like soap! Too many put the cart before the horse, believing that God accepts them based on the degree of their love for him rather than on the degree of his love for them. The Bible says, ‘We love because God loved us first’ (1 John 4:19 CEV). God’s love for you is not based upon your performance but Jesus’ performance on your behalf.

When you put your trust in Christ, God sees you ‘in Christ’ (2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV) from that moment forward. Do you want to know how God sees you at this moment and every other moment? ‘As [Jesus] is, so are we in this world’ (1 John 4:17 NKJV). Does that mean you can disobey God and get away with it? Not a chance! ‘The Lord disciplines the one he loves… No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it’ (Hebrews 12:6, 11 NIV). But God’s correction is not rejection! It’s proof of his unconditional, unlimited, unwavering, undeserved and unearned love for you.

God doesn’t love you more on the days you’re victorious and less on the days you’re defeated. His love for you doesn’t vary or vacillate. Knowing that truth will boost your faith and take your fear down a notch!

14/01/2025

I thought this was rather cute. A wee challenge if you’re looking after the kids or the grandees. Or maybe like me you’re just a big kid. 😁

Lizzie

How to draw a dog 🐶 so cute!

Via Kids Drawing Activities

13/01/2025

In this second part, Nicky Gumbel talks about pandemic of loneliness and his hope for the future.

Link to the podcast here: https://bit.ly/averytallman

12/01/2025

Back to it today. Happy New Year!

Excuse my shaggy hair du. Still full of salt water from my swim yesterday afternoon.

I’ve been mastering the art of sleep ins & chillaxing. Feeling refreshed for the year ahead.

How has your summer been so far? Only honest answers. 😉

Lizzie

11/01/2025

Show compassion to all (2)

‘[Jesus] was moved with compassion for them.’ Matthew 14:14 NKJV

Jesus demonstrated compassion wherever he went. He taught that we must care for ‘the least’ among us (see Matthew 25:40). The New Testament church continued his example by doing away with racism and lots of other ‘isms’. ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female…you are all one in Christ Jesus’ (Galatians 3:28 NKJV). Following Jesus means showing compassion to everyone, whether you like them or not. You’re called to practise compassion where you work and where you live.

Jean Henri Dunant couldn’t endure the sound of soldiers crying on a battlefield after they had been wounded, so this Swiss philanthropist said he would dedicate his life to helping them in Jesus’ name. As a result, he co-founded the Red Cross in the 1860s. Every time you see it, you see a thumbprint of Jesus. A Lutheran pastor in Germany named Theodor Fliedner taught a group of mainly peasant women to nurse the ill. This led to a development of hospitals all over Europe and inspired Florence Nightingale to give her life to tend the sick. Father Damien, a Belgian priest, worked in Hawaii in the nineteenth century and established a place where people with leprosy could be loved and tended to. Each week he would tell them, ‘God loves you lepers.’ And then, one week, he stood up and said, ‘God loves us lepers.’ He died from leprosy.

Jesus said of every unwarranted act of kindness shown towards someone, including those who don’t deserve it, ‘you did it to me’ (Matthew 25:40 NKJV).

10/01/2025

Here’s the link I promised to share ._there are so m ay beautiful versions …super hard to find the ‘ easy’…but this is certainly up there.

A Very Tall Man

Seong-Jin Cho – Chopin: Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2 in E Flat Major. AndanteListen to ‘Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 · Scherzi’: https://dgt.link/Cho-ChopinWith a...

09/01/2025

Love the Lord! 🙌

09/01/2025

The power of the tongue

‘Keep your tongue from speaking evil.’ 1 Peter 3:10 NLT

Your tongue has creative power. If you doubt that, criticise someone and observe the look on their face and their response. Now try complimenting them and observe the look on their face and their response.

But let’s not just talk about the effect your words have on others but what they have on you. The Bible says when you use your tongue to do good, you ‘enjoy life and see many happy days’ (1 Peter 3:10 NLT). Jesus said, ‘Whoever says to this mountain, “Be removed and be cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says’ (Mark 11:23 NKJV). What did he mean?

He means… That you can talk about your problem or talk to the great problem solver about your problem. You can complain about it or pray about it. You can discuss it from a human perspective, focusing on all its complications, or discuss it from a divine perspective, focusing on God’s power to change the circumstances. You can reinforce your sense of discouragement and despair by saying things like, ‘The problem is too big, and nothing can be done about it.’ Or you can give the problem to God and say, ‘Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us’ (Ephesians 3:20 NKJV). When you say that, you’re not only using the creative power of God’s word, you’re using your tongue the right way.

07/01/2025

Steps to spiritual restoration

‘The goodness of God leads you to repentance.’ Romans 2:4 NKJV

Satan wants to convince you your failures are so bad that they disqualify you in God’s eyes, that you’re unworthy of his love and grace, and that you should avoid God altogether. Don’t believe him.

Here are three steps that lead to spiritual restoration:

(1) Repent. Acknowledge your sin, renounce it and trust in the shed blood of Jesus to forgive you. God loved you when you were a sinner, and he loves you no less as one of his redeemed children who has blown it.

(2) Seek restitution. When your actions have hurt someone, Jesus tells you what to do: ‘If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift’ (Matthew 5:23-24 NKJV). If you want to walk in God’s blessing, follow his instructions.

(3) Refocus. ‘But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord’ (2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV). When you focus on yourself and your failures, you’re looking in the wrong mirror. When you focus on Jesus and his unfailing love and grace towards you, you’re looking in the right mirror. You will be changed into the image you focus on.

Thankfully, the change agent for spiritual restoration is not you but the Holy Spirit who lives within you. He will keep working in your life to make you more and more like Jesus.

07/01/2025

Coming to you from the home studio in sunny Mangawhai! Just thought I'd share a pic and also a verse or two from the message... Jon E

Lamentations 3:22 "GOD ’s loyal love couldn’t have run out, his merciful love couldn’t have dried up. They’re created new every morning. How great your faithfulness!"

06/01/2025

In this episode our guest is known the world over as former vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton. Nicky Gumbel talks about his coming to faith, being overzealous, and why he believes in the Alpha course.

Link to the podcast here: https://bit.ly/averytallman

06/01/2025

Often summer for me, means getting out and playing summer gigs in loval cafes in between hanging out with you on the wireless. (In fact one time is was a little concert in Gary's lounge!) But last week I played at a lovely little cafe called Eutopia in Kaiwaka... it was quite mellow and one of the audience decided it was nap time... Meanwhile, this week I'll be spending the afternoons with you here on Star Radio. Jon E

05/01/2025

Here’s a copy of the list I mentioned

Gary

The real Luxuries in life:
time health
a quiet mind,
slow mornings
ability to travel
rest without guilt
a good night's sleep
calm and "boring" days
meaningful conversations
home-cooked meals
people you love
people who love you back