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The Best Thing You Can Do with your Life: Sign it Over. (Inspired by Bill Bright.)

Anita Mathias — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 22:02:22 +0000

I read an arresting blog about Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, and one of the post-War generation of entrepreneurial American Christian giants—like Billy Graham, Bob Pierce of World Vision, Francis Schaeffer of L’Abri, or George Verwer of Operation Mobilization. As newly-wed Christians, Bill and Vonette Bright were disappointed with each other. After a quarrel, Bill […]

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Wriggling towards Shalom

Anita Mathias — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:39:53 +0000

When I find I am stressed, or distressed, I like to pause there and then instead of going through the day with undefined, subterranean unease. I take the question to which I do not know the answer–how to be more productive perhaps. How to read more. How to help someone. How to get our business […]

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My One Word for 2014: Alignment

Anita Mathias — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:29:08 +0000

This the first year that I have chosen One Word for the year. “One word that sums up who you want to be or how you want to live. One word that you can focus on every day, all year long. Your one word will shape not only your year, but also you. It will become […]

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If You Should Ever Want My Life, Come and Take It

Anita Mathias — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:33:41 +0000

In Chekhov’s haunting play The Seagull, the beautiful country girl, Nina, who dreams of being an actress, writes to the narcissistic playwright, Trigorian, “If you should ever want my life, come and take it.” He does; oh he does! He comes; he takes it; he casts it away, a poor discarded thing. Nina returns home, broken. She has […]

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10 Reflections after Listening to Heidi Baker

Anita Mathias — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:50:19 +0000

Heidi Baker is, I believe, the closest to the heart of Jesus of any living Christian. Christianity Today wrote a rapturous cover story on her. I heard her in Birmingham, and here are my notes, reflections and resolutions. 1) “Always, always, always, say YES.” Heidi: “I got so yielded that I didn’t have much more […]

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In Which We Give All to Get All

Anita Mathias — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:32:01 +0000

So Jacob has an amazing vision of a stairway between heaven and earth, and angels ascending and descending on it. And at the top was the Lord, who promises him the land, fruitfulness, blessing, protection, his presence and his favour. The context? Jacob is fleeing the brother whom he had effectively disinherited and deprived of […]

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On Absolute Surrender. Killing “Isaac” for God’s Fullest Blessing.

Anita Mathias — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:20:02 +0000

The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession […]

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“If God doesn’t tell you to do anything, then why are you doing things? Why not just sit at his feet?” (Roy Godwin “Grace Outpouring”)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:09:00 +0000

Fflad-y-Brenin, the splendid retreat centre founded by Roy Godwin “The key is searching for God, learning to listen for his voice, burrowing into his heart, listening to what he says, and then doing it, however simple or complex it might be. If He says it, do it. If He doesn’t tell you to do anything, […]

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Absolute Surrender, and the Christian Life

Anita Mathias — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:10:00 +0000

I am not athletic. At all! During a family trip to the Dunes du Pyla near Bordeaux, the largest sand dune in Europe, I sat on the sand, watching my family climb it, and enjoy the views up the sand-mountain.I have stood at edge of rinks, and watched Roy ice-skate; sat at the edge […]

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