Month: Jan 2013

Knowledge and Information

I am glad that people have referred to this as the information age. It certainly appears as though there has been an explosion of availability of information from especially sources like the internet.  At your finger-tips you can identify the capital of Bolivia (Sucre), the seventh president of India (V. V. Giri) and the great […]

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The Question of Fellowship

Let me be honest with you. I sit in on church services and hear people say that they don’t know what anyone else came to do, but they came to praise the Lord.  I hear others remarking how the gathering is for the primary purpose of worship.  Don’t get me wrong, praise and worship are […]

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When Jesus Writes The Script

This is just me thinking out loud blog-style. I am getting to the place where I’m relaxed about the fact that because of a number of factors I am the way I am.  no point in getting all wound up about it.  It is what it is and there is no changing the past. What […]

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Life Beyond The Shelter

There’s a lot to be said for living in a bubble. For the first 14 years of my life I was safely cocooned from some of the harsher realities of life by an introvert nature, parents who were not that outgoing anyway, and a lifestyle centred on church attendance which in itself warned against the […]

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Corporate Repentance

The other day I sat in a church service and the one leading the service selected Revelation 3:14-22 as the scripture reading. The case is that we read the scripture, hear a little bit spoken about it and then carry on with whatever’s on the schedule.  Indeed we can read it and never refer to […]

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Welcome To Suffering!!

Here are some of the bits about being a Christian and following Jesus that I would definitely put in a brochure to market it: Being a Christian means having your sins forgiven and a clean slate with God Following Jesus is an assurance of rest for your soul Living the way God wants strengthens you […]

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Being Authentic

It is very interesting considering how we have been conditioned. Sometimes I hear people speak in such a way as to suggest that their way of thinking, believing and behaving is objectively correct.  Such is their ignorance to the way in which they have been conditioned by society, the oblivious way in which they hammer […]

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