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5-year-old 4-hour Walkers in Burundi…
These 5-year-old boys are about to embark on a two-hour walk home from school to the second hill you can see. They make the journey twice per day – that blows my mind! It’s easy to take school for granted in the West, but for these kids, a decent education is their best hope of escaping the…
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Tough times and a cry for help…
It’s bad. Really bad… In the area around Thierry’s house, seven people have been killed by hippos. Then there are the crocs, snakes, mosquitoes, parasites, the open sewage leading to cholera… the list goes on. Thierry, my Anglican pastor friend, has lost his house (and his church) to the huge floods in Burundi. Lake Tanganyika has…
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Who is the Holy Spirit to you?
From my uncle Ross Paterson’s book ’The Antioch Factor’, I find this section very challenging: Walter Lewis Wilson was an American doctor born towards the end of the nineteenth century. He was a faithful Christian who hosted visiting missionaries to his church. One visitor from France didn’t mince words, asking him, “Who is the Holy…
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Choose Life in 2023!
I have exciting news! My publishers have kindly agreed for me to share the award-winning devotional Choose Life 365 for free in 2023! So I invite you to sign up for either a daily or a weekly email from me in 2023, helping you to choose faith over fear, love over legalism and gratitude over…
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Squeezed to the Wall in Burundi…
What oozes out of you when you are squeezed? Let me explain. A favourite quote of mine is by Smith Wigglesworth: “Be filled with the Spirit – that is, be soaked with the Spirit. Be so soaked that every thread in the fabric of your life will have received the requisite rule of the Spirit…
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Listen Now to My New Inspired Podcast!
Today we’re launching a new podcast: ‘Inspired… with Simon Guillebaud’. Upbeat and uplifting, ‘Inspired’ introduces us to a stunning variety of people from all walks of life. It celebrates perseverance, overcoming, and costly faith. Stories of adventure and risk-taking stir the listener to imagine new possibilities. I’ve loved recording the first few episodes already, which…