Origins

This may come as a shock and a surprise to you, but I can often be found thinking about things. (Yeah, there you go for the shock of the day – take your time in recovering from that.)  As in contemplating them and pondering and wondering. For example today I was minding my own business […]

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CD Songs: Donnie Sings Stevie

I could have put this in The Other Place, but when you add a number of factors it fits this place better.  Stevie is a much admired contributor to the music scene over the last 40 plus years – almost the entire lifetime of Donnie himself.  So it’s fitting that the brother who is not […]

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Is There Such A Thing As Safe Sex?

There’s this provocative blogger called Lionel Woods (he’s one of the dudes I recommend in the list on the right).  I love his blogs because he does not tow the line, say the safe stuff and conform to comfortable conventional convenient Christianity.  Obviously having a blog, he has a Facebook account where he leaves even […]

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In The Beginning

I love my daughters.  One of the things I love doing is sharing with them a little story before they pray and go to sleep.  I don’t always read from a book, sometimes I enjoy making up stories for them to get involved with and engage with.  Deborah as the oldest is getting into them […]

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I Struggle With This One

There’s a phrase that people often come across in relation to their current situation. “Can’t complain.” Those people are admirable in my eyes. I very much could complain. It’s not anti-Christian to acknowledge areas that could be the source of complaint. Where we go wrong is choosing to take the complaint. We have the choice […]

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Cultural Conditioning

Although I’ve not been blogging, I’ve been able to read other people’s blogs and one that I enjoy is Arthur Sido’s The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia.  A recent post he put together on the influence of Western thinking in how we read the Bible is one I strongly recommend reading. Without going […]

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