Jesus, I Come

There is something so beautiful about being with those who love Jesus. Recently I had the great privilege of sitting with a few folks who love following Jesus. They’re down to earth, honest folks. They are not into Christianese, they don’t follow many of the traditional church conventions of practice, because they’re honest types. (I’ll […]

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Delete It

I have had my email account for nearly 15 years. Typing that makes me think. 15 years. Wowsers. People have been locked up for less. In any case, in that time I’ve picked up a few habits. One of those habits is to be really organised with the incoming emails. I like to subscribe to […]

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Challenging The Way Things Are

I am not a subscriber to the sentiment that talk is cheap. I have a fair idea where it comes from. There’s a lot of talk about how bad something is without anything done about it. Politicians talk about what they will do to make things better. People vote for them and are disappointed to […]

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Patience – A Priceless Gift

People have been patient with me. Not everyone, obviously. Some just did not have the time to wait for me to get it. Some were frustrated that as they saw it, someone like me should have already been behaving and operating at the standard. I was not, though. Part of that was ongoing struggles with […]

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Keeping in Touch

Contact. My Dad was never the most physically affectionate of people. It’s not a criticism – I don’t think there’s a law that suggests all loving people must express themselves in physically affectionate ways. I did grow up, however, to appreciate expressions of physical affection. In any case, although he wasn’t a physically affectionate type, […]

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Prayer, People and Persistence

It’s weird when I think about. There’s really nothing about me that would make me someone who is naturally inclined to enjoy prayer meetings. Growing up in a church background I genuinely found prayer and prayer meetings to be among the most boring parts of the Christian practices to which I was exposed. I remember […]

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Stick or Twist: A Dryden Update

One of my favourite definitions of defiance is insisting that Thursday is the best day of the week even if you have a Thursday that was … shall we say less than desirable. The thing about having Thursday as the favourite day of the week is that it heightens the capacity to look for the […]

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