It’s funny. I used to think I was a loner. Then I discovered I was a loner who needed to not be alone. Then I found myself in a situation where I was not alone but I felt a loner once more. Recently a few of my friends and I studied about relationship dynamics in […]
Read More Reflections of a LonerThe task is huge. When I saw for the first time how many words they needed for each essay the gulp I gave was audible in the next county. That many words? What do I look like, a novelist? How on earth am I ever going to write that many words, when I have never […]
Read More Taking It One Step At A TimeIt doesn’t happen overnight. The thought of it happening quickly or instantly is one that proves to be very alluring indeed. A man is sick, a prayer is made, the man is healed. Job done. Everyone happy, praise God. That’s not always how God operates. In fact quite often there are things he will say […]
Read More In It For The Long HaulReading the book of Acts there’s quite a lot of astounding things that happen after the ascension of Jesus Christ. I remember asking and now I’ve lived to see my children ask: if things like this happened at that time, why don’t they happen now? Some blamed it on a lack of faith. Some blamed […]
Read More That Was Then, This is Now: So?Certain words used to be mentioned frequently, then went slightly out of fashion, then got a reboot before falling into some disarray and then going through the cycle again. One of those words in my brief sojourn on the planet so far is the word repentance. To remind/inform you, my context of upbringing was in […]
Read More About RepentanceIn as much as there’s no clear and defined GOAL OF THE YEAR for me in 2016. It has been very interesting thus far in terms of the Word and words. I don’t class myself as a scholar, but I would consider myself to be a student. What’s the difference? Spelling and advancement in the […]
Read More Renewed Love of the Word and WordsI have never read the book, watched a film or otherwise completed any sort of media about The Invisible Man. But I am a big fan of the concept. There’s a question that’s asked in the circles I frequent about which ‘super power’ would you want if you could have any. After joking that I […]
Read More Inspired By The Invisible ManI read the episode and still chuckle. Jesus and his disciples in a boat. His disciples include hardened fishermen who know a thing or two about life on the waves. So when they freak out at a storm that threatens their lives, you must know it’s serious things. Where’s Jesus in all the hullabaloo? Having […]
Read More Serenity in the StormGroups of believers mean well. To see someone come among them, hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and be convicted with the subsequent desire to follow Jesus is a big deal. The family feel that can come with the new birth understandably comes with a sense of belonging and being a little possessive. After all […]
Read More As I Am His – No ConformingThere is comfort in certainty. Sometimes, however, what appears certain might be founded on something very uncertain indeed. Some have a comfort in the certainty of who is spiritual in the church community. They have a comfort in what is supposed to take place in the church setting and who should be doing what. That […]
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