Mark's Blog

Learning to Love and Trust Again!

Where healing happens: A Jesus centred small group!

The emotional damage we suffer from those closest to us can run deep! Fractured trust and disappointment in those we love can go back to the very formational years of our childhood. Emotionally, it can be the very thing that keeps tripping us up in our attempts to get up close and personal with God the Father!

Because the currency of relationships is love and trust, we need to discover and learn what builds trust and conversely, what destroys trust.

Have you ever sat down and written out a list of what ‘destroys trust’ for you? This list needs to be carefully considered and ‘aired’ among trusted friends for possible healing or correction. The person who invites feedback from those whom you trust is inviting success into their lives! Conversely, those who isolate themselves due to hurtful and painful experiences with others, is inviting...

Getting to the Relational Core Centre of our Lives:

Our Heart!

We’ve been considering some of the barriers that seem to prevent the average Christian from making disciples.

Relationships are the essence of life. To quote Ps Steve Murrell from the Philippines: ‘Discipleship is about relationships; but relationships aren’t easy!’ Why are relationships so difficult sometimes?

The currency of relationships is love working through trust. To build and strengthen a relationship, love and trust is given and it is received! Love and trust requires a two way street of ever deepening and honest communication. The reason relationships are ‘not easy’ is because most of us struggle in the area of trusting others. Our past and current experiences sometimes shout at us not to let someone hurt you again? If Discipleship is about relationships based upon mutual trust, no wonder our introduction to...