In itself there is nothing wrong with forms and routine. We are conditioned towards them even through things like day following night, winter and then summer and so on. There are rhythms of life that rightly help us determine what is going on. There is a problem, however, when the form becomes a formula and […]
Read More Faith Beyond The FormulaicThere was four of us seated round the table laughing about things like how you were considered a young man in the church until you reached 70 by which time you were sent to a home. Laughing stopped when we agaon considered the words of Jesus regarding aspects of the cost of discipleship. Anyone coming […]
Read More Creating the Culture for Cross CarriersChristianity can appear fairly grim, sombre and serious at times. Have you ever seen people’s faces while they are singing? If you get the chance, watch a video on YouTube or wherever of people singing and watch it on mute and see the facial gestures. They can be singing about a love so pure and […]
Read More In All Seriousness We Don’t Have To Be All SeriousTrue story. I scheduled yesterday’s post after writing it way back on Saturday. I wrote it, scheduled it, then forgot all about it. Yesterday, something, maybe a tweet or a blog, got me thinking about confessing. On the strength of that I did a series of tweets with the hashtag #IMustConfess. Of course later on […]
Read More What’s The Fuss With Confession?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 Following
