You will get the impresion before too long that I love words. I produce writing because I consume writing – you know, the words that others have written. I know plenty of folks are just into the consuming, but what I consume inspires me to produce. It doesn’t necessarily inspire me to produce all the […]
Read More Dryden Links: Lessons in Marriage(Reflections and notes on Daniel 1 – for Part 1 of the series click here.) The first few verses of Daniel 1 make for sobering reading. Usually the way things worked where gods and their countries were concerned, if you beat the people that meant you defeated their gods. That’s certainly how the Babylonians may […]
Read More The Daniel Files: 02 – Adapting without DefilingYou gotta be careful, they advised him. You gotta know what you’re going to do before you do it. You gotta make sure that everything is covered and sorted so that you don’t get messed up because you didn’t do your due diligence. He nodded his head. He understood what they were saying and the […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: Check the Next StepThere were just half a dozen of them. Two married couples – Gary and Ruth along with John and Rachel and a young man called David and an elderly woman called Geraldine. They had professed to follow Jesus and were at various stages of their walk with Him. They had a love for Him and […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: The Light MovementIt’s intriguing to reflect on the method in which progress is made in life’s journey. The desire of many parents is to know that their children have confident independence. There’s the gradual push away from the attachment and dependence for food, shelter and nurture. There is a strengthening of bonds by that initial nurturing, but […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: Confident in DependenceWaking up each morning. Wondering why. Why wake up? What’s the point? Why not just pull the covers over again? In fact, why bother carrying on at all? In as much as I love my family and am grateful to God for them, primarily living for them as a purpose to keep going is relatively […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: Willing to Go OnHow did that detachment happen? Did He really say that you will die? You won’t die. You’ll be like Him. You won’t need Him. You’ll be able to do it on your own. From that has come the offer of other sips of deception. Sip One: Why listen to them? What do they know? They […]
Read More Never DetachedThe series starts off slowly. Introducing you to the key characters and the main thrust of the story. Once those aspects are set up, then it kicks into high gear with the twists and turns required to make the whole thing dramatic and fascinating. The challenge, however, is to bring all the strands together to […]
Read More When The Story Lands WellFollow One Course Until Success (Part 5 of the FOCUS series. Part one can be read here. Part two can be read here. Part three can be read here. Part four can be read here.) What does success look like? It is not always as it appears. A King of one army clearly gains victory […]
Read More Success(Welcome to Eden Weekly, the blog inspired by the name of the ministry of Shirley R. Evans. I hope you will be duly encouraged and challenged by the words she offers. For His Name’s Sake, Shalom, C. L. J. Dryden) There is a little three letter Greek word dei which is huge in its meaning. The literal translation […]
Read More Eden Weekly #02: It Must Happen
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