(Reflections and notes on Ruth 4. To find out more about the series of Ruth Reflections, read this.) It’s a family affair. The story began with a husband, a wife and two sons leaving a famine. The story ends with a grandmother cradling a baby that would grow to be the grandfather of the greatest king […]
Read More Ruth Reflections: 05 – Family FortunesHowdy, reader, your eyes are affixed – and rightly so – on this part of the world’s greatest blog conversation between two Drydens. This here is my contribution in response to the undisputed greatest Dryden blogger to ever visit Norfolk, David. Here’s the premise. Previously in the conversation: David offered some generous and insightful reflections […]
Read More ADBC: 19 – God, Gaps and The GruesomeIs that wise? We don’t always know all the consequences of our actions. We are not always fully informed of everything we need to know before we make decisions. The idea is to endeavour to do the best we can with what we have in order to make a decision that is good in and […]
Read More A Word Of Wisdom: Is That Wise?(Reflections and notes on Ruth 3. To find out more about the series of Ruth Reflections, read this.) God loves it when a plan comes together. Everyone celebrates the goal, but sometimes what leads to the goal can be just as exciting. Indeed such is the interest in what leads to the goal that there is […]
Read More Ruth Reflections: 04 – The Set-Up for A Set-UpA harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:18 (ESV) What is the harvest of righteousness? Why is it only produced in the making of peace? Why is it worth wholehearted pursuit? I was brought up in a small town in England and I had little to no contact […]
Read More A Word Of Wisdom: It’s About The Outcome(Reflections and notes on Ruth 2. To find out more about the series of Ruth Reflections, read this.) Followers of Jesus will do a great job when they display the beautiful picture of submission that Jesus presented. That picture is essential in a day and age where the picture of submission is muddied and distorted in […]
Read More Ruth Reflections: 03 – Kindness, Initiative and SubmissionEvery day and often in every moment of the day, there is a simple question that I answer. Do you believe Him? I had a conversation with my brother. We were talking about the differences between an atheist, one who rejects God and the godless. There are a lot of people who claim to believe […]
Read More Do You Believe Him?My Mum was an entrepreneur. To the best of my recollection, this was not something that was overtly encouraged and supported by her immediate peer group. She was set free to explore what that looked like after a spiritual renaissance she experienced that opened her to seeing Jesus’ call on her life in the next […]
Read More Dryden Links: Encouraging EnterpriseBut the wisdom from above is … sincere. James 3:17 Good old Greek has a word for doing something without hypocrisy. That word – which you don’t really need to know as it’s unlikely to change the conversation you’re having over a cup of coffee/tea/orange juice/water – is what other translations have helpfully summarised as to do […]
Read More A Word of Wisdom: It’s About Sincerity(Reflections and notes on Ruth 1. To find out more about the series of Ruth Reflections, read this.) You can listen to the book of Ruth read to you in roughly 15 minutes. What’s that? Hardly any time at all. Reading the whole book shouldn’t take that much out of your life. Meditating on it, […]
Read More Ruth Reflections: 02 – When Things Go Wrong
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