(Notes and Reflections on Revelation 1 – for the prelude to the series, click here.) Revelation 1 is an insight into what we’re about to receive from the rest of this text. We are introduced to John, but it’s clear in the early parts of this letter that John is taking notes from what someone […]
Read More What The Spirit Says … 02 A Remarkable VisionThere are few things in life as wonderful, refreshing and invigorating as seeing someone do something to an excellent standard. It is sad that often, for a wide range of reasons, we are somewhat cultured to accept that which is less than excellent, so that the excellent is soething of a rarity. It’s sad, because […]
Read More About That Quote: On Excellence(Reflections and notes on Daniel 1 – for Part 1 of the series click here.) The first few verses of Daniel 1 make for sobering reading. Usually the way things worked where gods and their countries were concerned, if you beat the people that meant you defeated their gods. That’s certainly how the Babylonians may […]
Read More The Daniel Files: 02 – Adapting without DefilingMy brother David and I have been conversing about a wide range of issues for a few decades. He blogs over there and I blog right here. There are things that he blogs about that I find fascinating and I’m aware that he enjoys a few of the blogs that I’ve posted from time to […]
Read More A Dryden Blog Conversation (ADBC): 01 – OpeningWhere others followed fashionable trends, this group kept on following Jesus. Where pressure was great to compromise to the culture – the group kept on following Jesus. Where there was a push to focus on other areas – the group kept on following Jesus. Even when it put them in contempt of social gatekeepers – […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Following JesusNow great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For […]
Read More You Cannot Be My DiscipleThere is no way I can ever claim credit for where I am today in terms of my convictions. The convictions were reached because God put people on my path who helped me read scripture in a way that got me to understand Him in a profound manner from which the convictions grew. One of […]
Read More Dryden Links: Interview with Alan KnoxHe’s my brother in Christ for real and he’s my Captain. I refer to him as my captain because I’m impressed with the way God has granted him wisdom and insight to galvanise others in the faith as he pursues others in the faith. So you’ll go with me that he’s my Captain. So, my […]
Read More What The Spirit Says … 01 PreludeIf a guy knew what it was for discipleship to cost him his life it was Bonhoeffer. This is a useful brief biography on just what it cost him to follow Jesus. ‘Salvation is free’, should not be a difficult concept for believers to grasp, because clearly we didn’t and cannot do anything to earn […]
Read More About That Quote: Free and CostsThis is not my home. How do I cope? October 1996. To do the degree I needed to be stationed near the lecture facilities. That required relocating from everything that I knew into somethng very different. I had not considered what it was like to be in a strange place because home and church life […]
Read More The Daniel Files: 01 – Introduction
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