They interrupt from time to time asking about what’s going to happen and why what’s happening now is happening. They pester and ponder investing lots of time into matters that are not worth their energy. Like all good stories it is much better to go through the story until its conclusion. You gotta let the […]
Read More Worth Reading To The EndWhen I was younger than I am now, I used to style off being competitive. There were those sporty types who had to win everything and made sure others knew about it both while they were playing and when they won. I wasn’t into that. That wasn’t my style. I like winning for sure, but […]
Read More What Winning Looks LikeWhat makes the story exciting is how when you read it, the action, movement, drama and conversation feels alive and engaging. The problem often comes when we read things the wrong way and instead of getting energised by the life of the story, we get bogged down with the minutiae and invert elements, pervert elements […]
Read More By the Book and By the LifeRecently I shared about faith in the system. Some suggested that I sounded somewhat sceptical and mistrusting of those institutions and elements that make up the system in which we live. There were even concerns that I might want to support efforts that goes against the system that, in all honesty, contributed to making me […]
Read More Faith in Something Different“The system will work. We can trust in the system.” Believe it or not, quite a number of people operate on that understanding. There are the institutions in place to ensure that things keep going as they should. The government, the schools, the police, the courts, the social services, these and other constructs are there […]
Read More Faith in the SystemIn real everyday life, the existence of right and wrong is ever before us. There’s the simple and straightforward – a young man aggressively pushes past a fragile elderly lady to get to the front of a queue to purchase something. The lady is physically hurt and there are concerns about her. The young man […]
Read More There Is Right and Wrong Isn’t There?He gets the credit from the situation because it started with Him, it ends with Him, it is done with His power, His help and His direction. Nothing works out without Him and without Him we are nothing and there is nothing. To that degree, it would be easy to question what part there is […]
Read More It Is A Co-operationHere is some of what Christ-centred, Holy Spirit filled family means to me. Some make a big deal of their ethnicity, nationality and cultural background. It is crucial to shaping and defining their identity. It is such a big deal to some that the idea of something being more important than that and framing their worldview […]
Read More A New Kind of FamilyIt occurred to me when I woke up this morning. As the first thoughts were drifting in, something triggered a memory. Lo and behold there it was, the fact that something momentous took place on Saturday 19th February 1994 in Mill Road Baptist Church in Wellingborough. At some point in the afternoon/evening, Elder Pink and […]
Read More Taking The Plunge – 25 Years OnRecently I was thinking about what it is to live the Spirit-filled life. I had attended a church service, which, in my view, had a lot of good things were performance was concerned – acoustics, stagecraft, etc, but in terms of the human environment it seemed to be a little lacking. The service was somewhat […]
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