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Have you seen this Bono video?
On February 26th, Bono spoke at TED to show the progress in the fight against extreme poverty… and what we need to do next. Bono shares the new facts about fighting global poverty: “Forget the rock...
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Are You Sleeping Wrong?
We all know we’re supposed to get eight hours of sleep a night. But these days that number seems impossible, right? There’s work to do. Books to read. Movies to watch. And Facebook doesn’t check...
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Unpacking Suitcases
Up in the Air Ryan Bingham: [on getting through airport security] Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have...
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What Warrior Taught Me About Forgiveness…
Every year my church does a series called “God in the Movies”, where we look for elements of truth – God’s truth – in the stories around us. This year I got to preach on the film Warrior, starring Tom...
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Want to Know Your Destiny? Look at Where You Apply Your Time.
Time is the most valuable asset you own. And whether you realise it or not, how you use or don’t use your time everyday is probably going to be the best indication of where your future is going to...
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Getting Married? Then This Is For You.
As a pastor and a wedding officer I’ve had the privilege of performing many many weddings over the past six years. Unfortunately, I’ve also seen too many stressed out brides and stressed out couples...
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Settling Down without Settling
When you’re fourteen, you look forward to car keys. In high school, you just want the freedom of leaving home. When you get to university, you can’t wait to get out into the real world. When you land...
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A Letter From God to Me
Sometimes when we read the Bible we forget that many of the books are actually letters. Personal letters written by real people with real emotion, and real empathy. One of my favourite of these letters...
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KZN Wedding Venues
It’s no secret that I LOVE DURBAN. Fantastic weather, warm ocean, great surf, awesome people, diverse culture… I could go on and on. In fact, here are 10 Things I love Most About Durban. But my love...
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How to Change a Habit
I’m currently reading a book called “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg. It looks at the neuroscience of habit formation and change, and is really quite fascinating. Of course, there is much more to...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rob Bell
I’ve recently finished reading Rob Bell’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About God” which, in my mind, is not only a brilliant title for a book, but a brilliant book as well. In it Rob uses three...
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The Quality of Life
We live in a culture that continually tells us to pursue a higher standard of living in order to improve our quality of life. But “standard of living” and “quality of life” are not the same thing. One...
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The Quantified Self: Are We Tracking Ourselves Too Much?
The wearable device trend is taking off, recording everything from how well you sleep to how far you’ve moved. But can it improve your life? Every morning I get up, put on some clothes (while trying...
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The Case for Replacing Family Dinners with Family Breakfasts
This is a guest post by Laura Vanderkam that I just had to repost… By dinnertime, your family is tired, in a bad mood, and often not together. The mornings are another story—and can bring all the...
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8 Things I’ve Learnt About Habits
Over the past year or so I’ve set out to discover as much as I can about “habits” – how they work, and how we can change them to improve our lives. Three books in particular have been incredibly...
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Finding God in Gangnam
Love it or hate it, it cannot be denied that PSY’s song “Gangnam Style” is a phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Here are just a few incredible facts surrounding the song: On December 21,...
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8 Things I Wish I Knew Then That I Know Now
I’m coming up on 32 years old and have certainly made my fair share of mistakes in life. And while I’m not a big believer in regrets (I have learned tremendously from every single mistake) there are a...
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7 More Things I Wish I Knew Then That I Know Now
Last week I wrote a post called 8 Things I Wish I Knew Then That I Know Now. Here are 7 more… 1. Today is What’s Important. It’s so easy to live stuck in the past or perpetually in the future. Pay...
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3 Reasons Why I Love (And Don’t Love) CrossFit
That’s me on the left in the final of the United We Stand CrossFit Games 2013. Firstly, I have only been doing CrossFit for the past five months, so I certainly don’t pretend to know it all, or even to...
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Sex is Not Just Physical
“There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact.” – 1 Cor 6:16 (The Message) This took me a while to figure out. In my youth I treated sex as if it was...
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