I was sorely tempted to run a series of posts this evening, but I thought otherwise, because on a day like today, it’s all about relaxing. There is still enough time to reflect on the year 2010 and without going into great detail my recollections are as follows: January: Having moved to Little Hulton at […]
Read More Thanking God for 2010Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11) There is the ‘What Can He Do For Me’ approach to Jesus – bread for hunger, water for thirst, light in darkness, friend in loneliness, king for leadership, and so on. Yet […]
Read More Jesus Is … AllOne of the words that has really had a new meaning to be over the year 2010 is revelation. I got a hint about it in 2008 when I had the reassuring word given to me that the last book in the Bible isn’t actually written as a scary apocalyptic novel to graphically tell me […]
Read More Revelation: Dealing With The Enormity Of JesusI am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. (Revelation 22:13) It is huge to consider Jesus as the Beginning and the End. This claim establishes Him as being there at Creation and then at Culmination, but note it does more than that. His claim is not […]
Read More Jesus Is … The Beginning and the EndDeborah Dryden, my firstborn, is 6 years old today. Birthdays are a great time to celebrate God’s goodness in life and act as a milestone to measure just how far we’ve come and how to still make it is a tribute to God’s grace. For example I was reflecting the other day how gospel legend […]
Read More Deborah At SixThey will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful. (Revelation 17:14) Royalty, majesty, kingdom and authority. There have been so many empires from the Ancient Egyptians through the Babylonian, Greek, and […]
Read More Jesus Is … King of KingsThis morning I put up the fact that Jesus is a brother and with it a clip from a Christian comedian. So it behoves me to share a word on my views on Christian comedy. Sometimes I think the church tries to imitate with the thinking that if it does then it will keep people […]
Read More Christian Comedy? You Must Be JokingFor he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.” (Hebrews 2:11, 12) He is not just a friend, He […]
Read More Jesus Is … A BrotherDreams. As with a lot of elements of spiritual living they can be dismissed wrongly, or exalted wrongly. Does God still speak through dreams? Yes. Does God want to make a big deal of how He speaks through dreams? No. The big deal is what He is saying in the dream and what of Him […]
Read More Dreaming About YouAnd Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. (Matthew 9:15) He is a love story. There’s the salvation bit. There’s the family reconciliation bit. All crucial parts to […]
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