True story. Last December – that’s right less than four months ago – I did an Emergency First Aid at Work course. This was a one day course that covered some aspects of First Aid at a basic level. Among other elements we learnt in the session was CPR and how to put someone in […]
Read More Qualities FadeThe role of a servant can be trivialised and made to seem of little to no importance. Yet there is something about the role of serving the needs of others that has a rich reward, sometimes far greater than whatever the experience for the one who has been served. There are precious times when I […]
Read More Take Pleasure in ServingHunger was the most basic need God addressed from the beginning. It’s incredible of all the various wants and needs developed since then and from then it remains the basic need of the human experience. Whether it’s mental stimulation or sexual gratification it can all be classed as a form of ‘hunger’ that needs feeding. […]
Read More Don’t Hurt Them, Feed ThemBaptisms. I love ’em. For the sake of the argument I am referring to believer’s baptism rather than infant baptism. True story: I have not seen an infant baptism in real life. Anyway, I love baptisms. It’s brilliant seeing people make a public declaration of allegiance with Jesus Christ. On a number of occasions those […]
Read More What Have You Got Yourself Into?I sometimes wonder why He keeps them. He’s beaten death, He’s defeated the grave, the final opposition to life and the Kingdom has been vanquished in the death, burial and resurrection. He is triumphant over all His foes. He is now the hope of the world and those who believe in Him can live eternally. […]
Read More Scarred As A Reminder That You Are VictoriousWhen I was a lot younger, I used to hear a lot that to be a hypocrite was one of the worst things ever to be called. Let’s be clear. By hypocrite the thinking is usually of someone who presents one face and then in another setting presents a different face, maybe the opposite. So […]
Read More HypocriteStability. People like stability. It’s not that we don’t like change – honest. Some change we welcome with open arms. Yet as long as there’s stability it makes things alright. What is offered with Jesus ruling from the throne forever is not just stability – it is something that expresses itself in full righteousness. It […]
Read More It Will Never End (Part Two)He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” (Luke 1:32-33) There are times where a simple statement will have me transfixed. This is one […]
Read More It Will Never End (Part One)What were we like before shame? It’s such a powerful state to find yourself in. So crippling. The combination of feelings of embarrassment, fear and withdrawal prevents any chance of full acceptance and true intimacy in a wider sense. Sometimes it’s something within that causes it – a response to an incident for example. Sometimes […]
Read More He Takes Away The ShameThere is a need to focus on the need for Jesus. I recognise how easy it is to get distracted. The problem of being distracted is that even if you’re doing noble things, they miss the point. There are a lot of noble things going in the world that miss the point. That point chiefly […]
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