Security is something highly valued by people. We are not far from the generation that believed in ‘jobs for life’ and marriages that should last forever. There is comfort in knowing something will always be there to help. So it is not the most encouraging thing to hear that the only sure things in life […]
Read More Security in Uncertain TimesIt is the end of another week there has been lots of issues worthy of prayer. To list them all and go into detail would require … something I don’t have a lot of – time. So here is a snippet of just some of the issues that I’d appreciate you remembering in your prayers. […]
Read More Prayer Points (WE-110326)Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find? (Proverbs 20:6) I am only too aware of how easy it is to come across as though I’m all that. It’s easy to talk a good game. I am also aware that when it comes to relationships, people can be […]
Read More MTP20 – Finding The Faithful ManWhy should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? (Proverbs 5:20) The thing about the word ‘forbidden’ is that it can almost appear to be a challenge to the inner person. Like the child that’s told the chocolate is forbidden, when we’re told we cannot have […]
Read More MTP05 – Avoiding the ForbiddenThere have been one or two blog posts especially in January that were inspired after reading sections of Michael Eric Dyson’s book I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King. A bit of personal context might help before getting into the review itself. When I was in my early teens I […]
Read More DMCD Book Review: I May Not Get There With YouEarlier in this look at Matthew I had the temerity to suggest that Jesus could get angry and it would not be in our best interests to be on the receiving end when Jesus is angry. I had to read it several times to begin to consider the level of charges that Jesus makes to […]
Read More Insights From Matthew – On The Flipside Of The WoesAm I missing something here? Follow me carefully. I reckon if I did a pop survey of those who are Christians and read the Bible, if I said Matthew 18, I’d imagine a significant number of respondents would talk about binding and loosing. I’d probably get some people talking about agreement. Perhaps one or two […]
Read More Insight From Matthew – Jesus, The Community of Faith and The Little PeopleWhen They Miss The Point From Outside Throughout Matthew chapter 16 there is an undercurrent of missing the point. First its evident that Pharisees are missing the point in trying to trip up the Messiah. Considering their request for a sign is similar to the devil trying to get Jesus to prove He’s the Son […]
Read More Insights From Matthew – Missing The Point in Missing The MessiahTime waits for no man, so the saying goes, and time has passed again with the usual ups and downs in the world. Here are the prayer points that have come out for this week. Muhammad Ali The man who proclaimed to be The Greatest this month celebrates the 37th anniversary of first winning the […]
Read More Prayer Points (WE-110205)At last as promised here is the first of what I hope to be a regular ongoing series of book reviews suitable for the readership of this fine blog. Timothy Keller is a name I was first made aware of in 2006. It was then that my interest in things concerning characters like John Piper […]
Read More DMCD Book Review: The Reason For God
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