Discipline & Fruitfulness

I sing in a choir. At this point I usually make a quip about using the term loosely. However on this occasion I’ll skip it because there’s something in the singing that’s inspired this post. Of late we’ve had a director who has challenged us. In so doing he alerted and reminded me of the […]

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A Life Aflame: About Intensity

I had something prepared for the beginning of this post, but as I was about to type I listned to the dramtised version of 2 Samuel 1.  You should check it out on BibleGateway.  It fits in well with this piece. 1 Samuel has ended with the death of King Saul.  2 Samuel starts with […]

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Are We Set Up To Be Fruitful?

This weekend a very dear friend of mine challenged me. There are a group of churches in a geographical region who are lacking in numbers.  Meanwhile other churches have more numbers and could certainly do with giving some of their members the opportunity to serve elsewhere.  My genius idea was to offer the opportunity to […]

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For Our Freedom

It’s an interesting time of year. Today I stood with others in a church service as the efforts of the servicemen who died in the major wars of the last century were remembered. I was informed by the leader of the service, that these people made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Yesterday I was […]

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Fishers of Men

The offer that Jesus made to the fishermen who formed a significant part of his apostolic team, remains an interesting one. My church background is one which has historically struggled in producing fishers of men. The typical progression route of males in the organisation is they’ll be in the children’s activities, and some will stick […]

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