This is a beautiful song. I love it because it has Andrae Crouch who has been one of my favourites for years and years. It has Marvin Winans who I’ve also loved a long time. The main reason why I love it though, is because the sentiments in it are so profound for church life. […]
Read More CD Songs: Let The Church Say Amen – Andrae Crouch feat. Marvin WinansMy introduction to the Bible was through the Old Testament. When I was a child I read aspects of the Old Testament like a story. I never understood some of the prophetic books. I enjoyed the first bit of Daniel and gave the other bits a miss. Of the first five books, I obviously didn’t […]
Read More Learning From History: We Want One To Rule Over Us (But Not That One)I do believe in the power of the Word. With all of my heart, soul and mind. I have seen the power in the word bring about tremendous healing in the mind and the body. I give God thanks for it. Yet is it really helpful to just tell Christians struggling with depression to say […]
Read More Talking Point: Christians and DepressionThis song has a great deal of meaning to me. It is a song that says so much not so much about me – although there’s a lot of ‘me’ in it. It is what it has to say about the nature of God. I love the fact that He really won’t leave me. He […]
Read More DMCD Songs: I Won’t Leave You Anymore – John P. KeeThis is another blog entry thanking God for grace. For if it were not for grace there would be little to do to deal with the depth of our depravity. No this is not an advert for Calvinism, but it is a suggestion that for the beautiful things we humans produce on the earth in […]
Read More How Deep Is It?As you know, I love football. I don’t play it, obviously, because that would require physical effort that has already been spent getting the can of ginger beer and me laptop ready to watch it and converse about it. Yet I love watching top quality football and everything that surrounds it. A cause of much […]
Read More Loyalty and the ChurchHe’s Been There All The Time: A Story I’m putting the following in my own words for ease of writing, but it comes from Bremner: The Real King Billy by Richard Sutcliffe. If you’re not a football fan, no worries, the point isn’t about football as you’ll discover. It’s 1961 and 40 years after their […]
Read More Oh Yeah, It Was Right Under My NoseA Disclaimer: God’s Mysterious Sovereignty God works how He wants to work. Some scandalous, bizarre, crazy situations have been a part of His plan all along. Some of the most dubious characters have been the means by which He chooses to speak to His people. The discerning spirit is so important so as not to […]
Read More It’s Not All About Technique: Real Power in Real Broken VesselsIt appears as though the image of Christians in some media portrayals is not that far from the Pharisee depicted in Jesus’ parable. (By the way, it is ironic that some Christians take a holier-than-thou attitude to Pharisees as a whole. Indeed some of the anti-semitic sentiment can be seen as an expression of this […]
Read More Talking Point: Are Christians Cured Of Self-Righteousness?It Started At A Wedding (Not My Own, Obviously) I don’t get invited to weddings often, and of late I’ve loathed being that much in crowds. Yet a dear friend of the family was getting married and invited my wife and I to his wedding. So we made an appearance at the ceremony and even […]
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