The woman told me she belonged to a fellowship. This woman, who for the sake of the argument we’ll call Alison (not her real name), did not know I was a Christian. I don’t always jump at every opportunity to say ‘Snap’ whenever I come across a professing believer. Alison was a lot more open […]
Read More When You Think Of Church, Do You Think Of Confessional Community?Lets see here. Order of service is right. Sermon is inspiring. Songs are suitably pitched to deliver the right emotional outcome. Meetings in the week to keep up the impression that we’re active. Outreach activities like giving to the local food-bank or helping out at the local home for the elderly. Got a youth group […]
Read More When You Think Of Church, Do You Think Of Disciple-Making Community?I am employed as a tutor. I work with adults who have been unemployed for over 6 months. The idea is to refresh, revise and reinvigorate the learners about jobsearch skills. The challenge is that by the time they reach the short course I deliver, some of them are well entrenched on a cycle of […]
Read More What Is It To Teach?Here’s another submission to the Question of Identity series more of which you can discover here. I have a lot of respect for the written works of Arthur Sido. He blogs, tweets and updates his FB and I find a lot of what he has to say thought-provoking and soul enriching. I don’t have to […]
Read More QOI: I Believe – So What?This is another instalment in the Question of Identity series. To find out more you can read the introductory entry by clicking here. As you might have noticed, across the pond, our American cousins are gearing themselves up for Tuesday’s Presidential elections. As with the General Election, this time in the political season can evoke […]
Read More QOI: Who Has My Vote?For His Name’s Sake Shalom dmcd
Read More Reluctantly Following Is Still FollowingOne of the things I love about the teaching/training sphere is the room for reflection. In the sessions I deliver we recently went over a cycle for performance improvement. It is a familiar cycle – plan, perform, review, revise to start the whole cycle again. I reckon done properly we might progress has we paid […]
Read More Is This My Story? The Role of Violence: A ThoughtAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing (Edmund Burke) It appears of late there have been a number of revelations regarding the misdeeds of Jimmy Saville that have left people shocked and stunned that such acts could go on with nothing being done about it until a […]
Read More Being Complicit – Finding ReconciliationI have read and heard a lot of things lately that intrigues me. I hope to share more in future entries. What I want to state here, though, is something fundamental to my entire existence. Jesus Christ is my identity. That has huge cultural, social, political and relational consequences. It is a truth that shapes […]
Read More Question of IdentityOne of the most intriguing people I’ve come across in my time in Bletchley goes by the name Ricky Rew. I’m not intrigued by the name, fascinating though it is, I’ve been tremendously blessed by this man primarily because he captures that precious quality of being very real and human and being very much motivated […]
Read More Declaration and Demonstration – Word and Works
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