DOW Articles

‘Dancing on Water – Living Above Life’s Circumstances’ is a collection of short faith-inspiring articles that are born from Bill Joukhadar’s 40+ years journey with God. These ‘life-tested’ articles are intended to inspire existing believers to live 100% of their lives, publicly and unashamedly by faith, in honour of God. They are also intended to interest possible newcomers to take a closer look at Christ and the Christian faith.

  • Derailed for Disaster

    Derailed for Disaster

    Foundational Christian beliefs and practices continue to be minutely scrutinised, criticised and compromised by so called liberal modern-agers from inside and outside the Church. Read more

  • Be careful, you may get what you want!

    Be careful, you may get what you want!

    In the Western world many people are marinating in financial luxury – lacking nothing except time, not wealth, that delays them from getting their hands on the next item on their ever-growing list of wants. We live in a want-driven world! What’s wrong with being a want-driven person? Consider this thought provoking saying: ‘You may Read more

  • Glamour-Driven Generation – 2

    Glamour-Driven Generation – 2

    More than any other generation in my lifetime, this present generation is obsessed with dressing-up their bodies to appear as glamorous as they can afford. This, showy, worldly glamour is veneer-thick! Read more

  • Glamour-Driven Generation – 1

    Glamour-Driven Generation – 1

    From early childhood, I grew up with a very, very low self-image – I saw myself as being too little in worth and that no one would want to be my friend. Read more

  • Irritation-Produced Pearls – 2

    Irritation-Produced Pearls – 2

    Consider this fact: A natural pearl begins to form inside an oyster’s shell when an uninvited intruder (an irritant), such as a grain of sand or a speck of floating food, slips in between one of the two shells of the oyster. Read more

  • Irritation-Produced Pearls – 1

    Irritation-Produced Pearls – 1

    Today is July 9. I am compiling this article in my fourth day of mandatory self-quarantine from a bed & breakfast accommodation at Perth, Western Australia. Read more

  • Positions Vacant: Peacemakers! – 2

    Positions Vacant: Peacemakers! – 2

    The world in which we live is in a ‘natural’ state of war with God and with itself. The one thing humanity needs more than anything else, right now, is peace with God – a prerequisite to enjoying personal inner peace, and relational peace with everyone else… including those who are offside with us! Peace with God, Read more

  • Positions Vacant: Peacemakers! – 1

    Positions Vacant: Peacemakers! – 1

    Her name was Ruth, and it was early, 1992.  My family and I had not long relocated from the Gold Coast in Queensland to commence pastoral service at the Dungog Baptist Church, situated in the Newcastle Hunter District of NSW. One afternoon I noticed a basket full of assorted fruit resting on the rear landing of Read more

  • The Art of Care-Frontation – 2

    The Art of Care-Frontation – 2

    Relationships are not something we can live without – We were created for them! However, if relationships are not healthy, they can be the very death of us! Read more