It’s been a while since I posted a really personal blog piece, which is unusual for a blog that did start out by being personal. Nevertheless here it be a personal post. Over the last two weeks my wife has been out of the home. Her three daughters certainly noticed her absence. The thing about […]
Read More When Someone Is MissingThe single human voice is a powerful instrument. Hearing a gifted voice convey a message on it’s own can be quite the moving experience and you can truly appreciate tone and feeling by it. Yet there can be no doubt that all you have to do is add another voice that accompanies that one, taking […]
Read More AccompanimentGrowing up in the home I lived in I had an older sister, but not an older brother. When I left home to go to university I sent the following summer staying at someone’s house. Staying in anyone’s house as I’ve subsequently discovered is a big deal. Staying in a single man’s house is a […]
Read More Thank God For Older BrothersGetting a good perspective on God is a healthy approach to life. In 1 Kings 20 there’s an interesting episode. The king of Aram feels he can beat us the king of Israel and so challenges him only to get a beating. He does a runner and regroups. A year later he decides to have […]
Read More Bigger Than ThatAs you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house[a] to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:4-5) Be it ever so humble there’s no place like […]
Read More Cephas Says: 2 – People Are God’s TempleSome things change. Some things stay the same. I have been full of ideas since I can remember. Not many have come off, but that hasn’t deterred me from getting more and more ideas. As I get older I am aware that it’s good to establish things that will last. It’s good to start ideas […]
Read More Pastoral Care Beyond Church WallsWe can get hung up on the wrong things, get distracted and completely miss the point. Maybe the way we converse is not always respectful. Some of the things that are said are done with an aggressive and pained spirit that often seeks to be vindicated more than it seeks solutions. Some of the things […]
Read More Maybe It’s Not The Right VehicleWe are given to extremes. A good friend of mine informed me of one perspective on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Here the taking of the tree exposed us to the full breadth of the extremes of good and evil. Rather than depending on God for all things, left to our own […]
Read More Order and SpontaneityThis blog comes to you from a hotel room in a place called Redditch. I have never been to Redditch before. I have not done a tour of the town and I am unlikely to do so before I return home, God willing. The little that I have seen of it is very pleasant. They […]
Read More Enlarging The FamilyIt takes much to live in your own skin. Getting on with people in a different culture is always going to be difficult. What makes it easier is finding common ground. Even this, however, is designed to make matters easier to engage with the more unfamiliar territory. The effort is such that it is no […]
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