la vida creativa.

Sunsets and Selfies.

This self portrait got chosen to feature on a page called #picturehisglory on Instagram, where pictures that are associated with worship + bible verse and/or are inspirational to the Christian faith are posted. If you’re ever on their, check out the hash tag: picturehisglory. Alternatively, a few have expressed keen interest, so I have loaded it up for y’all to use as a wallpaper on your computers or your smartphones (I don’t discriminate against non-iPhone users…) You can download it here. 

​E N J O Y .

​The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies show the work of His hands.
​//Psalm 19:1

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Gabriel

Gabe is a friend of mine who recently started working at a cafe called TIMBRE. This cafe is the first non-profit cafe in Sydney, and it’s located in Bondi Junction, on Oxford Street. This cafe is filled with custom furniture, home made treats and creative people. It’s new, but it’s got a lot of potential. AND every time you purchase something from there, you’re helping a good cause, due to all the excess profits going to fund mission projects. Rate and like Gabe’s Mo! And also, head over to au.movember.com to donate! 

Pablo & Rusty’s Epping

So I work at a cafe called Pablo & Rusty’s. And all the boys at my work have decided to participate and raise money for Movember. Naturally, they were added to my Movember Project, and here is a picture of our ruggedly handsome manager, Andrew, who’s still in his early days, but well and truly on his way to growing his very own mo. If you’d like to donate to our group, you can click on this link to donate!! The Mo-Bros of P&R’s Epping :)

{ MoBro.co/pablosepping }

Pablo & Rusty’s Epping

So I work at a cafe called Pablo & Rusty’s. And all the boys at my work have decided to participate and raise money for Movember. Naturally, they were added to my Movember Project, and here is a picture of our ruggedly handsome manager, Andrew, who’s still in his early days, but well and truly on his way to growing his very own mo. If you’d like to donate to our group, you can click on this link to donate!! The Mo-Bros of P&R’s Epping :)

{ MoBro.co/pablosepping }

My Jesus.

He died for me. I was rotten, scum, lost, dirty, blind, deaf and dead. He didn’t even physically know me. We never had a conversation like the discipled did with him. We never set down and had a meal together. I’ve never had the privilege of hearing his teaching directly from his mouth. And yet, he knows me completely, because he created me. Somewhat two thousand years later, when nothing that happened around the time of Jesus really seems to matter or impact us as much as what’s really revenant now, the fact still remains that my Jesus died for me. He created me, he knows me, more so than what any of my closest friends, my parents or I, myself knows me. And yet, he had the love to carry the cross up to that hill and die on it - even when he knew who I was and how much I would act against God throughout my entire life, in my sinfulness. Would I give up my life for that? Would I give up my life for someone, knowing exactly how much they would be against me, how much they would ignore me, hate me, betray me and deny me? My simple answer is NO. 

But I am not Jesus. He is God, the Lord, Messiah and my King. I am unable to give up my life for someone because I am selfish. I am sinful.

But I am thankful that Jesus is not sinful and that he is not selfish. This story may come from one persons view, and I may have only though about dying for one other person, but in this case, Jesus died for ALL. Countless amounts of people who are just like me…

I am reminded on this day of how far off from grace I was, before I gave my life to Christ. Many of you know parts of my story, and many of you know most of my story. But Jesus knows ALL of my story, and he chose to love me. That is the only way a sinful, lost and broken man can be fully changed. No other amounts of circumstances, environment, peer influences, therapy or self motivation can come close to having the power to change one soul and save that one soul like the power of Love that Jesus showed the world on Good Friday. 

So friends, I encourage you to not feel guilt, but thankfulness that Jesus died for you and I. And I pray that you would experience even a glimpse of of that infinite grace that was shown on that cross, two thousand years ago, today. I am unable to see what responses you might have to this, as I am fasting Facebook this month, but I do hope that this has encouraged you.

God bless,

Joshua.