Hayward posted this just after Crimbo last year, but I only came across it recently and I chuckled to myself wanting to give someone a high-five for how spot on its portrayal of where our allegiances truly lie can be seen in where our treasures are. (HT: The Naked Pastor.) For His Name’s Sake Shalom […]
Read More Shop WorshipThere is a great deal of safety buying into simple statements about complex issues. Rather than make things messy and look into how things might work in certain scenarios it can be easier and more simple to just refer to a familiar catchphrase or phrase that has been recited ad nauseaum. For example, if you […]
Read More Have You Ever Thought About What God Teaches About Sex?This time last year I was looking at what it was to be ashamed of the gospel. My song reference was to one of the greatest gospel songs I’ve heard from one of the greatest gospel components I’ve ever heard. That component is Mr. Andrae Crouch, who has hopefully been informed by his peers and […]
Read More DMCD Songs: We Are Not Ashamed – Isaac Carree feat. John P. KeeRandy Alcorn has done the world a favour again and encouraged us to have a look at an interview Os Guinness to the Acton Institute some years ago. You can of course go straight to the interview. Yet I would still encourage you to check Randy’s three-part blog covering No Freedom Without Truth in part […]
Read More Os Guinness and the Argument of Freedom From vs. Freedom ToSome people have problems with labels. It can be overly constrictive and fail to reflect some of the factors that are dominant in that which is being described. I understand those reservations over labels and after all in most cases we are a lot more than the labels we give ourselves and some of those […]
Read More What Do You Mean ‘Christian’?Sometimes I get the feeling I really should be up on what is happening at the moment. Things like the news gives the impression that if you’re not up to date, you’re missing something critical. Thankfully chiefly through a rather chilled and relaxed father, I am discovering again and again, it still pays to take […]
Read More So What Do We Do With The Poor?Lately someone informed me that ‘no one likes to be used’. I know what he meant, but I’m not sure he got the words quite right. We use things every day. We use them without being consciously aware that we’re using them. Take the clothes you’re currently wearing (of course I assume you are wearing […]
Read More Used or AbusedI was thinking about divorce recently. Not to worry, I wasn’t thinking of it in direct relation to my current marriage to my first wife (unpick the faux pas from that!) I was thinking of it in terms of what a tragedy and a trauma it is on so many different levels. Even in the […]
Read More Compelled by Compassion, Motivated by MercySome songs send me way back. Way back to a time when I didn’t really know God, but was aware that my parents did in as much as I had to go to church with them on the weekend. Back in those ‘innocent’ days music played a big part of family life and I remember […]
Read More CD Songs: We Need To Hear From You – Andrae CrouchLast week I was reflecting on the influences to which I paid careful attention and on how much the John P. Kee was a huge deal. The song I posted last week was good – but this was the killer. The slide is not new I know, but I know say when I saw it, […]
Read More DMCD Songs: Strength – JPK & NLCC
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