Trusting God is a challenging thing to do at the best of times. It’s difficult when you are used to relying on yourself. So it’s not unusual that you are instructed to trust God with relationships, but in your fear or pride, you feel the need to help God out by taking matters into your […]
Read More Who Sorts Out Church?I have started The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer. It is already burning a hole deep in my psyche and being about hungering and thirsting after God alone. Whilst reading I was reminded of this beautiful song as rendered on Ron Kenoly’s album God is Able. (20 years old this year!) Should you have […]
Read More CD Songs: You’re My Everything O Lord – Ron KenolyIt’s been bugging me for a while and even in writing what I’ve written about it, the itch hasn’t been sorted. I am referring to the issue of mutual submission. I started it in general when considering it as the key response in how we can work together. Putting flesh on those bones I looked […]
Read More Mutual Submission: Fruitful RelationshipsIt was not that long ago that I invited you to imagine. No, I didn’t invite you to imagine like some other fella did. I invited you to imagine the basis of relationships being built on mutual submission. Where I left off was with a promise to put some meat on the bone of what […]
Read More Mutual Submission: First PlaceRecently I asked the question, how should we work together? Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Ephesians 5:21) This is an interesting verse. It’s interesting because it finds itself after Paul’s encouragements to the church to behave as children of light in recognition to what Jesus has done. It also comes in just […]
Read More Mutual Submission: The KeyIt’s a great idea isn’t it? You and I working together to get something done. On what basis, however should we work together? How can we do it in the most effective way possible? With the best lasting effects? Just some questions with some interesting thoughts to come. For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. […]
Read More What About Working TogetherThere’s a difference between asking God to search you and introspection. I am very used to introspection. It tends to end up being a long and winding road that leads to nowhere but the very self you’ve always been. The self you’re aware of, the self that keeps things going. It might seem very relieving […]
Read More Search Me O God2 Corinthians is a fascinating letter. Somewhere around the middle of it, Paul implores the church to join in the giving scheme. I read that section of scripture and am bothered about giving. Paul is not talking about tithing or anything like that, he’s talking about organising aid for those fellow believers suffering elsewhere. His […]
Read More Giving What Is NeededThe connections in my brain to issues are strange. A football manager gets sacked, I’m reminded of a song about a Grandfather’s Clock and then I’m thinking about the importance of letting things go. If you can make a straight line through those three points, perhaps you need to see someone about that. Let me […]
Read More Sometimes Things Must DieWhen I was walking home one evening, I turned the corner to the street where my home is located. As I got closer to my house I was struck by the number 12. I don’t mean that literally of course. It’s not as though a figure representation of the two digits assaulted my physically. I […]
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