This weekend I had the pleasure of spending it in the company of some old and new friends. Among other things we were exploring spiritual gifts and their role in an individual’s response to God’s call on them. It was a thoroughly invigorating, stimulating and energising time with people of God. Being among such spiritual […]
Read More September Sojourn: Finding Your WayDespite my best efforts, the technological issues continue to dog me efforts at regular blogging, althought to be fair, there have been other pressures on time that has made it harder to continue as I would have liked. Yet here I am again taking advantage of this window of opportunity to post something on what’s […]
Read More What To Do With Summer Days …There are thoughts that I have that irritate me. They do so, because they just refuse to leave me still. One of the questions that bug me, is reading the book of Acts, as you may recall I’ve been doing of late, the question keeps cropping up to me, what would life be like if […]
Read More About Church AgainI have no idea at present what the Beach Boys song was called. I also have no intention presently to simply google it. (Blogging by phone does that to me.) I do know that the song had the words “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”. At this juncture it’s important for me to note my mild hatred […]
Read More Wouldn’t It Be Nice – Acts and Life in the SpiritRelationships are interesting. Nothing beats a good relationship. There are different elements to relationships, and I believe there are different stages of relationships, based on me brief time on the earth. While I was working through some personal issues in the transition from Bletchley to Derby, I started thinking about stages of relationships. A few […]
Read More Discipleship – Learning To Live The Love LifeI had scheduled to continue the series on gospel partnerships, but Alan Knox grabbed my attention with this blog concerning Tackling The Love Problem. Such was my interest that in beginning to answer his questions, it morphed into this. So the gospel partnerships series will continue after this brief interval. What is interesting about Alan’s […]
Read More My Response To Tackling The Love ProblemThere were only three of us. We don’t really know each other that well, but have something in common in following Jesus Christ. We were looking at the section of 1 Corinthians covering chapters 12 to 14. Reading that together and exploring aspects of it – what it meant, what the consequences were in our […]
Read More Reminder To Grow Up – A Study ExperienceOne of the things that bothered me when I became conscious in church services was people not getting it. The nature of our bible studies was conversational (kinda) and so a question would be asked and people could contribute thoughts as well as answers (occasionally). It wasn’t really directional/lecture type study where someone would talk […]
Read More Realities of Life Together – Travelling At Different SpeedsBlame Keith Giles and his twitter feed of 1sr May. I have a tendency of blaming someone else for that which is my responsibility. I’m sure you’ve never come across that kind of behaviour before. I follow Keith on twitter and also his blogging, cos I regard him as one of the best around. I […]
Read More The Ol’ Clergy/Laity Split: Is It The Problem?Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. (Acts 6:3) Recently I had the opportunity to observe a national church conference elect its executive board. Taking in the proceedings and following on from my post about reference to personal examples, […]
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