The way Wisdom describes herself in Proverbs 8 continues to be one of the strongest and most attractive arguments for loving wisdom I have come across. Just hearing her declare what she has, what she does and how much she benefits anyone who seeks her, makes it maddening that we ignore her. After a period […]
Read More Fruit of Wisdom (The Fruit Series 17)What can a family look like when it comes to fruition? Not just the blood family, but a family of believers who grow together. One person’s idea of development can be very different to God’s. The person can be hung up on organisational affiliation but never actively address genuine spiritual development. Where God is very […]
Read More When We Come to Fruition (The Fruit Series 16)This is one of my favourite episodes on scripture. For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More What Is the Story of Elijah and the Prophets of Baal?When he stepped into our home, he took his shoes off instinctively. He did it as if to suggest he already felt right at home. It was his first time round our place, but he helped himself to things as though he slept there and was another family member. He felt right at home. No […]
Read More Right At HomeAnd he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”(MRK 7:20-23 ESV) There’s a saying […]
Read More Bad Fruit – Rotten From The Core (The Fruit Series 15)I watched something recently that made me sad. I saw things that were meant to be so beautiful, corrupted by the pursuit of money and power. Relationships so sacred were sullied by deception. Interactions designed to help each other were full of mistrust and disrespect. Enforcing this was a system that was more concerned with […]
Read More Let It Grow NaturallyTo Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles […]
Read More Bad Fruit and A Thorny Situation (The Fruit Series 14)It was my main man AJ who reminded me about Hezekiah Walker. Back in the day, Walker was a part of my listening life. He wasn’t as prominent in my life as Fred Hammond or John P Kee, but the brother had some choir pieces that stimulated interest that’s for sure. In fact, I recall […]
Read More Knowing Where Power BelongsWhen the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, […]
Read More Bad Fruit and Detached Relations (The Fruit Series 13)It must be something for a parent to witness their child go from a baby to a toddler and infant to an adolescent and then hitting adulthood. Not only that but to then witness that same sprog turn out to be a responsible parent themselves … Well that must make those years of toil appear […]
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