1 Corinthians 10:31
I approach cooking with an emphasis on family-style meals and the tastiest ways to eat healthy together! When not in my kitchen, I'm often sewing, crocheting, reading drawing or painting in and around my home and exploring the best food locations in Brisbane. My favorite food is anything shared with friends!
Food has a special ability to bring people together. I often find this in my own life, and I hope you will find that through these recipes it would have the same effect. For me, cooking together builds the best communities, develops meaningful relationships and displays lovely hospitality to the people we love! Let's get cooking together!
I have been cooking for a long time, but that doesn't mean that you need a ton of cooking experience to follow my recipes. I work to make my recipes interesting for advanced cooks and still accessible for beginners. If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask by sending a message or posting a comment.
We seek to upbuild others and encourage continual growth and development through Christ like hospitality and service in our families and communities. Capturing the beauty in creation and giving glory to the One who created it all.
Lydia’s Chronicles aims to enable people to develop and flourish in their God-given creative skills, talents and gifts.
Mission:
Lydia’s Chronicles aims to enable people to develop and flourish in their God-given creative skills, talents and gifts.
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We seek to honour God by using what he has given with his providential hand to encourage, bless and grow others. We believe that God is the ultimate creator and owner of all things including this business and hope to be faithful stewards that utilise and manage all resources He provides for His glory and the betterment of His creation.
Values:
Integrity: We uphold and live by our values and beliefs.
This core value permeates through everything that we do as a company. We aim to be living examples of what God commands us to be, both in word and in deed, remaining honest and consistent, having our hearts affections and dispositions match our external actions. 1 Timothy 4:12 (ESV) says, “Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” Ephesians 5:1-2 (ESV) says, “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Community: We use our God given talents, skills and abilities to serve those around us, including family, friends and the local church.
We believe we are part of the community in which we work and therefore have the responsibility to serve and be hospitable to those who are in need. God is the owner of our company and all that we do centres around Him. We all have gifts that are to be used for the building up of Christ’s body. And we fulfil our roles only when we put our gifts to use. We work as he has gifted us to love and care for strangers and those we love remembering that we were once outsiders who have been dearly loved by a hospitable God (Romans 5:8). 1 Peter 4:8-10 says, “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
Excellence: We work wholeheartedly and strive for excellence and distinction in all aspects.
We are constantly setting new goals and aim to achieve the very best in everything that we do through continual learning, growing and improving. Undergirded by moral and skillful excellence and godly character in everything that we do, all of life is to be lived for the glory of God. Colossians 3:17 (ESV) says, “And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him”. Paul later writes, ” Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” (Colossians 3:23-24 ESV)
Vision:
We seek to upbuild others and encourage continual growth and development through Christ like hospitality and service in our families and communities. Capturing the beauty in creation and giving glory to the One who created it all.
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Redemptively using what God has graciously given and provided us with to faithfully fulfill the tasks and responsibilities He has appointed to us in accordance with his Word. Diligently and enthusiastically serve God and His people, blessing others through exercising our gifts. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. Romans 12:6-8
Whilst it is true that Jesus is our great example of servanthood, He did not come to earth to live the perfect live, die on the cross for our sins and resurrect to glory just to teach us to be more servant-hearted and hospitable. No one makes himself or herself acceptable to God by trying to emulate Jesus’ example of service. Sufficient righteousness is only found in Christ, in believing the gospel, repenting of our sin and having faith as the instrument of justification. We are only justified and declared righteous by God because of the atoning death of Christ and his righteousness that he imputed to us. When we believe in Christ, His perfect obedience is put on our record, and God declares us righteous in His heavenly courtroom, only by Christ, not by any of our own workings.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” John 3:16-18
Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
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