What’s inside tends to emerge outside under pressure. It is one reason why tough times come to see what’s inside. To be honest, sometimes what’s inside is a whole heap of stressing. Stressing about outcomes that may happen. Stressing about how I will look after things. So to help protect myself I ensure that there’s […]
Read More Confessing About Stressing: When It’s Hard To Be A BlessingI like the concept of being being a channel of blessing. I like it because it recognises that we are part of a flow. I am a recipient of this blessing. God has lavished His love on me, every morning I get to enjoy new mercies if I have the mind and heart to embrace […]
Read More A Little Bit More on Channel of BlessingSo there’s been this theme on the blog recently about being a blessing. It wasn’t planned. It was just a roll that kept rolling and this hymn came to mind in the light of that. I will come back to it soon. Meanwhile consider the song words carefully and see if you are a channel […]
Read More Make Me a Channel of BlessingApparently someone said it is more blessed to give than receive. As that is the case, givers must be hugely blessed indeed. Recently I had the privilege of being a part of a special family birthday brunch. The person celebrating the birthday is not my blood relative, but because of Christ and the impact they […]
Read More The Honour In Being A BlessingPeople are really interested in themselves. Not everyone, but a large number of them. Just ask the right question and immediately they will be off and running about themselves in some capacity. They will hog the conversation and by the end of it almost forget how they started, such is their interest in themselves. That […]
Read More Making Room For Others To Be A BlessingCustomer service operators (CSO). They are quite the breed of humanity. Their task can be thankless. There was one in particular at place I frequent. On one occasion I endeavoured to utilise a voucher scheme and because of technicalities as to how the voucher could be used, I ended up causing a large queue. That […]
Read More Be A BlessingFor the past few entries I have had the opportunity to explore the letter to the Ephesians. That’s been a great exploration and as I mentioned I am looking to work on the findings from the study and share those developments as they happen here. Having completed that, there’s a little gap to collect my […]
Read More Dryden Notes November 2016 Part 1Going through the Ephesian letter was a deeply enriching experience for me. More so than it has been in time past and I love Ephesians. What has helped with that has been hearing the entire book read from start to finish on a number of occasions. Doing that has allowed me to get a better […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: EpilogueThere is a war going on. There is a war to be won. It is a war that takes place whether we believe it or not and it’s war that is happening in the unseen realm with repercussions felt in the seen realm. It’s important to see that struggle taking place in the context of […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: Finally … Win The StruggleIt’s not the most pleasant word in modern, enlightened, liberated, autonomous culture. In that light it’s understandable that some do all manner of contortions to make what Paul outlines in key relationships as fitting with the egalitarian way of thinking. Paul was a product of his times and so we should just appreciate this as […]
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