Be yourself, no matter what they say. Recently I spent a lot of the day listening on repeat to a particular track. I love this version more than the original, which is saying something. In listening to it, that line repeated at the end hung around – be yourself, no matter what they say. That is […]
Read More He Did Not ConformThis blog has been going in some form or other for quite a while now. I don’t often go and look at what I wrote way back when, but today I was looking at an issue and considered what I wrote on the matter. There has been a lot written on this blog about fruitfulness. […]
Read More “Without Me, You Can Do Nothing” Another Thought on FruitfulnessPicture this. The man is put in the cell and you hear the door slam behind him. It’s dark, it’s confined and the sense of being closed in on yourself soon becomes suffocating. No one like to be locked up. Apparently. The visual is related to someone being incarcerated. They have committed a crime and […]
Read More Locked UpFood. Not just food, but a meal. And not just a meal, but the full three courses. Ahhh there’s something about it. There’s something about it that says so much more than just eating because you’re hungry. I don’t tend to talk while I’m eating. There’s something about the focus on the consuming of the […]
Read More Like A Good MealI remember a brief exchange I had with King Arthur Sido. In it I was buzzed up with some article about church planting and that kind of thing. In essence King Arthur’s response was that it was more important to be about the business of sharing the gospel and making disciples as Jesus taught than […]
Read More Basics In PlaceYou read it one way, he reads it another way, she reads it another way and they don’t even think we know how to read it which is why they go to somewhere else where one person wrote the text which makes it a lot easier. Then others suggest we don’t need an ancient text […]
Read More What Does The Scripture Say?You can’t put everything that’s in the Bible in a play or a television production or a movie. Genealogy for a starter would be tough to portray. There are parts of Scripture, however, that lends itself beautifully for dramatisation. You ever read those narrative parts in a way that was captured in a visual manner. […]
Read More Dramatisation: You Ever Done This?Context. Where does it fit? Why does it fit there? What came before it and what came after it? Is it all we need to know or is there more? Can I get away with my understanding of it as I look at it, or do I have to do some more work around it? […]
Read More Getting the Whole StoryThe thing about redemption is that it screams out “there is hope!” Even in the worst situations where hope appears lost, the story of redemption says it’s worth holding out for hope. The theme of redemption is particularly something that means a lot to me. There are so many episodes in my life where I […]
Read More Themes I Love: RedemptionIt comes down to this. More than the splendid oratory, more than the signs and wonders, more than the public declarations and stories of the miraculous. More that all of that, can this faith be trusted? Is it for real? The gatherings involve real experiences that people find genuinely moving. Often, however, they can appear […]
Read More Truth and the Christian Way: Authenticity
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