Both sides of the fence, eh? Nothing quite like it. I have clear recollections of being a boy growing up in the family home in Wellingborough. I would get upset about something and feel aggrieved at the injustice of it all and my voice would raise and I’d overstep the mark and my Dad in […]
Read More Do You Know Who You’re Talking To?This doesn’t just apply to ‘loving couples’, I find it applies to family and the extended family of faith. Almost as though God intended life to be lived together. (HT: The Meta Picture) For His Name’s Sake Shalom dmcd
Read More TogetherSometimes I wonder … I wonder if I understand who Jesus is and what He meant by what He said. I wonder if my knowledge of the gospel is the truest sense of knowledge, by which I mean beyond intellect and wordplay and something evidenced in my approach to life. I wonder if sometimes the […]
Read More Sometimes I Wonder …It is really intriguing how we can let things eat away at us. The fret, the worry, the anxiety, the not knowing, the needing to know, the possibilities, the what if’s, the if only’s. We can become slaves to these and a great deal of time and energy is wasted on things that resolve nothing. […]
Read More Wisdom To Know The DifferenceMaybe this post would have been better off being called the ‘P’ words and Marriage, (purity and patience are other ‘p’ words that would fit this article nicely) but I’m not too fussed. Pornography. There I’ve said it. One of the things I cannot account for is the age of the reader, so I endeavour […]
Read More The ‘P’ Word and MarriageTrawling through the archives I discover I can neither have a title that says ‘He Ain’t Heavy‘ because that was taken. Neither can I have a title ‘He’s My Brother‘ because that’s taken. I cannot even have a title called ‘Man After God’s Heart‘ because that has been taken as well!! So for the time […]
Read More Oh BrotherOne of the biggest problems in my life has been to do with condemnation. Well into my late teens and twenties my sense of worth was constantly ebbing and flowing. Sometimes I would feel as though I was loved by Christ and that was all that mattered. Other times I would be very insecure, cut […]
Read More No Condemnation – Not GuiltyPart of my story is one of having my ignorance, pride and other ugly things that lurk within exposed to me on a regular basis. Another part of my story is how at the same time as its exposure there is redemption and restoration, almost as if having it exposed is not for my embarrassment, […]
Read More How You View ItHe didn’t turn up for work. They said he was suffering from the day before and so it was expected that he wouldn’t turn up. He had been expressing his concerns about how viable the workplace was. It had not been thought out clearly and goalposts seemed to change on an almost daily basis. What […]
Read More Anxiety AttacksOne of the things I appreciate about real talk, is that it can be just that – real talk. Sometimes in church company and certain settings certain language is used, certain phrases, certain gestures, certain protocol that keeps the status quo, but doesn’t necessarily reveal the real. As The Carpenters once put it, sometimes in […]
Read More Decisions, Deletions, Detox and Devotion
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