The Lord’s Spirit has come to me, because he has chosen me to tell the good news to the poor. The Lord has sent me to announce freedom for prisoners, to give sight to the blind, to free everyone who suffers, (Luke 4:18) The theme of October’s Daily Thoughts has been around Freedom and Slavery. […]
Read More Daily Thoughts – Celebrate Freedom: It’s Good NewsBut thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. (Romans 6:17, 18) Learning something new can be fun with thanksgiving. Freedom does not […]
Read More Daily Thoughts – Learning The Path To FreedomThey promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. (2 Peter 2:19) ‘I couldn’t help it’. You may remember the initial question of whether you were a slave or not. As you chose to carry on with your daily activities with the choices […]
Read More Daily Thoughts – Beware The Dodgy Freedom SalesmanBut you are God’s chosen and special people. You are a group of royal priests and a holy nation. God has brought you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Now you must tell all the wonderful things that he has done. (1 Peter 2:9) On Thursday a group from the YMCA went to view […]
Read More Daily Thoughts – Weekend Extended Edition – Light on IdentityOn Thursday a group of us from the YMCA went on a trip to Liverpool – on the Albert Docks. The full report should be up on the North Staffs YMCA web-site soon, hopefully by tomorrow, but don’t hold me to that. In the meantime following the success of a photo try-out on the other […]
Read More Liverpool Trip – 25-10-07Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. (1 Peter 2:16) Doulos. It is not frequently used as it is an old Greek word. It means slave and this is the word that is translated as servant. Effectively we are free to […]
Read More Daily Thoughts – Free From Slavery – Free To Be A SlaveSo I be here checking through some songs on YouTube again ranging from The Isley Brothers’ Harvest For The World to the Fugees’ version of Wonder’s classic Blame It On The Sun. Earlier on I was having a look through Facebook and was just wondering about fads and trends that are hot flavour of the […]
Read More Will Facebook Destroy My Wife?For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. (Galatians 5:13) Some debate over whether freedom is positive or negative. Whether we are free to do whatever we want, or free from a nanny state telling us what to […]
Read More Daily Thoughts – Free From Slavery – Free To ServeWhen I was at university back in 1996 it was the first time away from home and I was in me own room in a block of student digs. With all the newness of having money to waste I took the opportunity to attain a fair quantity of CD’s. My man then and my man […]
Read More Stevie Wonder – Tuesday HeartbreakYou know I’ve had this image on the desktop for the longest time with the aim of putting a blog entry online about it. So now I’ve got the chance and I don’t know exactly what to say, so here’s a ramble. I tell you what have you ever read an e-mail that seemed to […]
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