It’s a wonderful position to be in when you don’t have to worry about certain things. As a child food was provided. Cleansing was provided. Shelter was provided. As well as that a semblance of order, structure and routine was provided. A lot of the time as it is the way of the world, there […]
Read More Who Rules? The Value of the QuestionYou were watching a programme and then you realised. You were having a conversation and then you realised. You came across a presentation and then you realised. The method of realisation varies – that you realise matters. Once you realise, there is also the element of wondering if what you have come across is just […]
Read More Within Reach: Why Share The Realisation?It was meant to be something that was liberating. But over time, it just felt like you were being dragged down. Bogged down by one thing and then the other. They told you that you had to wear this. Then they told you that you had to be careful what you said. Then they they […]
Read More Something Had to GiveThe effort is great to make sure a wedge is placed in relationships. One tool used to drive that wedge is anger. You hurt me – by what you did or by what you said. You hurt me and my reaction to that is to be angry. That anger is sometimes expressed in openly hostile […]
Read More King Jesus Says – Be ReconciledCan you see me? Can I see you? The term intimacy is rightly used in the context of the marital relationship. That relationship is in a real way to be the peak of that term: when true oneness is experienced to a degree that cannot be experienced elsewhere. Intimacy, however, is not exclusive to that […]
Read More Intimacy in RelationshipsGod had a plan and His plan involved a man. That man was told about aspects of the plan, but to see it to its fruition, this man had to learn persistence. This man’s persistence highlighted the awesome works of God in fulfilling His plan. Moses suffered an initial setback when the people of Israel […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 7 – Persistence for DeliveranceRealisation. What a wonderful word. It’s scary as well. But there’s more about being full of wonder than the scary thing. It’s scary though. Scary in the sense of that dawning realisation of the condition that you’re in that you did not recognise until you … realised. I mean when you realise it’s scary because […]
Read More Within Reach: When You Realise …It was not just about proclaiming the coming Kingdom. It was about teaching about it as well. What underpinned that rule of God to be experienced by His followers. Having established Kingdom character in his teaching on the Mount, Jesus uttered something that still has radical consequences today: You are the light of the world. […]
Read More King Jesus Says – ShineCentripetal and centrifugal. One draws in to the centre. One gives out from the centre. One wants to be the focus. One sees the focus beyond self. The phone rings. It’s Kevin. He asks how I am. He takes the time to hear me out. I ask about him and he offers a decent response, […]
Read More Generosity in RelationshipsMoses has three different audiences – God, Israel and Egypt. This is all new to him. He has previously understood about the people that he belonged to and the people who adopted him. He was in a position of privilege, but as he discovered he was not in a position of desired influence. Years away […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 6 – Stuck In The Middle
Life With CD 