Dazz - Life, Living and Lessons.: The Stage - "a story about my journey"

Dazz - Life, Living and Lessons.: The Stage - "a story about my journey": I can feel that this one is going to probably speak to me more than anyone else but I'm sure someone out there needs it too... so here i...

Calm Down!

Calm down!

Luke 24v45 - "And He opened up the eyes of their understanding, that they might comprehend the scriptures" 

My prayer today is that every-time we open up the bible it will like when Jesus felt so passionate about what He wanted to tell the disciples in Luke 24. In v 36 He said "Peace to you" calming their thoughts. So when you open up His Word today, calm down then ask Him to open up your understanding. Its very easy to get bent out of shape  being a volunteer in church. Sometimes i have a huge laugh about the stupid things I throw my toys out for...lol





Always be reminded of who you doing it for, why.... In an instance your mood will change.

Have a blessed day friends!

Gliss

Finding yourself in the Volunteer Ministry: City Lights doing City Life in Dubai

Finding yourself in the Volunteer Ministry: City Lights doing City Life in Dubai: Last week Tuesday a few of the guys in City Lights got together for indoor cricket in Al Quoz.  The place is called INSPORTS and if...

City Lights doing City Life in Dubai

Last week Tuesday a few of the guys in City Lights got together for indoor cricket in Al Quoz. 

The place is called INSPORTS and if you didn’t receive any proper directions it’s quite easy to be in the office park and still don’t find it. But once inside you discover that its quite a cool place.

INSPORTS is Dubai's fully air-conditioned Indoor Sports Facility. This indoor sports center offers the community in general the facility for indoor cricket, football, basketball, hockey, table tennis and others; all in a professionally managed environment which includes coaching. Schools reserve the facilities during the day and the evenings are structured to meet bookings by members / nonmembers or alternatively for people like us to just come and have fun. The obvious advantage of this sports facility is that it is fully operational year round and is fully air-conditioned for the long hot summer months and dusty evenings like tonight. Huge thanks to H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum who is the president of the Dubai Sports Committee for developing and improving sports facilities such as INSPORTS!

Now I have to say that we have real professional players like Adam and Clint. Geeze these guys are scary! Lol. I seriously couldn’t even see the ball at times. The rest of the guys were good, they made me look okay; at least for the first 30min. Being hopelessly unfit, not having had any form of cardio activity for at least 7 months I was on the brink of passing out lol!!! Luckily Lindi were on hand to doctor me with some sugar and take my place on the pitch.

Events like these I believe is important for City Life. I’ve long liked the idea of men getting together and helping each other get by in life. As far as I can tell from reading history, it used to be a lot more common for men to do this years ago than it is today. Fraternal organizations, labor unions, sports leagues and at the extreme monasteries come to mind. I wonder sometimes what it is that finally broke these institutions. Could it be mass media and home entertainment? Too many hours at work? Maybe a combination of these.

I think it’s time for those of us who have the time and inclination, to start thinking about putting aside more time for stuff like this. And rather than make them overly churchy or ideologically based, I think the first order of business should be to simply offer people a place where they can get away from the world for a bit and calm their nerves. No competition over women, no workplace stress: just friendship, some understanding and an opportunity to show people that Jesus loves and cares about them.

Have a great week!

Gliss