Growing up often calls for changes. Attitudes and views held can be challenged and discarded. Relationships often take a different path some ending as others begin. Lifestyles may alter along with income and location. There is nothing necessarily wrong with these developments in and of themselves. Problems can arise, however, if arrogance begins to emerge. […]
Read More A Problem With ArroganceWhen it’s a Marvel movie, I’ve now been conditioned to sit through the credits. I sit through the credits because there are meant to be little teasers and hints as to what might happen in future films. Sometimes the hints are good, sometimes they leave you thinking what was the point. Actually, though, there is […]
Read More One Story: Many ContributorsOn my way to and from work I enjoy reading. Sometimes I’ll read a book. Sometimes I’ll read blogs or other articles online through my mobile device. either way I enjoy reading. I’ll come across something and it will grab my attention and I’ll be fascinated with it. Depending on what I’ve read I’ll note […]
Read More It’s Better Growing TogetherJesus – what a guy. Don’t invite Him over to a dinner party if you want a quiet time. He accepts an invite to a dinner at the crib of ‘a prominent Pharisee’. It’s an invite to a meal. Now decent manners would suggest you don’t call too much attention to yourself. Enjoy the hospitality, respect […]
Read More Don’t Exalt YourselfIt was his way of saying he agreed. Or it was good. Or he understood. Just the one word. Sweet. He said it so often it began to annoy some of the other learners. Eventually they could guess when he was going to say it and said it with him or soon in advance of […]
Read More The Sweet StuffPraying is very good. In prayer we communicate with God and He communicates with us. There we can pour our hearts out to Him. Pour out our worries, pour out our cares, pour out our love and pour out our praises. It really is quite something. There is the issue, however, of sometimes asking God […]
Read More Who Is Faithful?Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. (Proverbs 16:32) Acts of physical aggression in the larger scheme of things is relatively easy. After all it tends to be the first course of action when sufficiently agitated. From thiz it can eb stated that it is not the […]
Read More Celebrating Self ControlI heard a saying that said with Christ in the vessel you can smile at the storm. Not taking away from what’s reassuring in the sentiment, there is something missing. When Jesus was on a boat in a storm, He didn’t expect His disciples to smile at it. He expected them to calm it. That’s […]
Read More Keeping It CalmOn the face of it this statement – true love hates – does not make sense. There’s an image of love that is full of pleasant, life-affirming sentiments and digging a bit deeper there are even more commendable qualities such as hope and perseverance that help fill out our concept of what love involves. In […]
Read More True Love HatesIt seems like a long time since I posted a personal update on this my personal blog. So I’m delighted to take some time to update you on things. First of all, I’m delighted to say that I am doing well health-wise. In the second half of February I had some brief skirmishes with flu […]
Read More Dryden Update – March
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