Are You an Asset or a Liability?

Posted by Berni Dymet on May 3, 2013 in Blessing, Community, Discipleship, Featured, Growing, Service | 4 comments

There are two types of people walking around on planet earth today. Just two. There are givers and there are takers. You know what I mean. The question is – which one are you?

How to Discover Your Destiny

Posted by Berni Dymet on Apr 15, 2013 in Berni's Life, Discipleship, Faith, Featured, Growing, Jesus, Power, Victory | 5 comments

We all want to know our destiny don’t we? We all want to know what we were put on this earth for; what God made us to do; what God has in store for us.

We’d love to be living a powerful, exciting  life in His service, but …

Three Powerful Lessons from a Small Giant

Posted by Berni Dymet on Apr 10, 2013 in Berni's Life, Church, Community, Discipleship, Featured, Growing | 8 comments

Every now and then, you meet a giant in your life.  I’m talking a good giant here, not a bad one. The sort that Isaac Newton spoke of when he said:

If at times it appeared that I could see further than others,
it’s because I’ve stood on the shoulders of giants.

Here are 3 powerful lessons that I learned from a “small giant” in my life.

Good Friday – Easter Art Evokes Anger

Posted by Berni Dymet on Mar 29, 2013 in Berni's Life, Controversies, Easter, Evangelism, Faith, Featured, Forgiveness, Grace, Growing | 19 comments

Art has an amazing ability to evoke all sorts of  emotions – happiness, sadness, awe, anger, excitement, wonder, pain … the full gamut. 

As I was walking down Oxford Street Paddington (Sydney) in the week leading up to Easter 2013, this window display in a gay, fetish erotica store caught my eye.

No – ‘caught my eye’ is too soft!  It confronted me. That’s much better.

When I saw it, my blood boiled, but …

An Unsettling Story About Money

Posted by Berni Dymet on Mar 18, 2013 in Bible, Blessing, Church, Discipleship, Featured, Finances, Growing, Holy Spirit | 14 comments

How attached are you to your wealth, whatever “wealth” means in your context?

Well, the results of our Honest Answers Quick Poll are in, so I’d like to share them with you, together what is, to my mind, one of the most unsettling stories about money in the Bible. 

Are you ready?

Honest Answers Quick Poll – Attachment to Money

Posted by Berni Dymet on Mar 15, 2013 in Discipleship, Featured, Growing, Honest Answers, Worship | 8 comments

Okay – here’s the thing. I need your input for my next blog post. It’s all about how attached we really are to our money and wealth.

To help me prepare, I’m putting this “Honest Answers Quick Poll” in the field and I would like you to respond. It will only take you half a minute. 

And the way my polling software works, I have absolutely no way of finding out who responded and how. So it’s totally confidential.  

3 Powerful Ways to Tear Down the Wall in Your Marriage

Posted by Berni Dymet on Jan 27, 2013 in Featured, Forgiveness, Growing, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Spiritual Warfare | 2 comments

Anyone who’s been married for any length of time will be able to tell you all about the brick wall that can grow up between this man and this woman who love each other so much. Left unchecked, one day they wake up and realise they’r living as strangers under the same roof.  Divorce is now a very real possibility.

That was never God’s plan. Find out how you can stop that from happening – with 3 powerful things that you can do to tear down the wall in your marriage.

One brick at a time.