Everyday Devotions by an Ordinary Christian

Everyday Devotions by an Ordinary Christian

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Overwhelming

Lately, I have been reading this series called The Door Within which is practically Genesis through Revelation in a fantasy version. The king in the book represented God and his love expressed in the book was just too great and overwhelming. This reminded me of my king, God, and how great and amazing his love is for me. Every time I hear a song about how great his love is for me, I just break...

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Friday, 9 March 2012

Finding Jesus in Every Book of the Bible

Last week, I was at a youth conference and a small group of girls had a performance and I thought it was really cool so I asked for the script and I want to share it with you: In Genesis, Jesus Christ is the seed of the Woman.  In Exodus, He is the Passover Lamb.  In Leviticus, He is our High priest.  In Numbers, He is the Pillar of Cloud by Day, and the Pillar of Fire by Night.  In...

Sunday, 4 March 2012

The Decision (a video starring me and my church)

This is a video that a group of teens from my church put together and I am Natalie in this one. We didn’t have a lot to work with, we had just written the script 20 minutes before we filmed it including the practise runs. This video is about standing up for your faith in any situation. It shows 2 different situations in which a girl is challenged about her faith at school in order to hangout with...

Saturday, 3 March 2012

What is true beauty?

I was talking to my friend a while ago and we were talking about beauty. She was talking about how she doesn't think that she's that beautiful. Personally, I think she's extremely beautiful, but she didn't seem convinced. Well maybe that is because I view beauty in a different way than what she was...

Beyond Our Galaxy (God of Wonders)

"God of wonders beyond our galaxy... The universe declares your majesty..." I was singing this song in a conference that I was just at and those two verses just struck me. God of wonders beyond our galaxy. He is BEYOND our galaxy, a God that is so far from us, wants to be so close to us and even wants us! Our sin makes us unbearable to God, but he didn't want us to be separated, he wanted to...