Reluctantly Following Is Still Following

For His Name’s Sake Shalom dmcd

When You Have One Of Those Days

My beloved longsuffering wife had one of those days. It’s not as though she doesn’t get those days, but even when you have them it is still a test of your emotional capacity and character. She could have told from the start of the day that it was going to be one of those days. […]

Is This My Story? The Role of Violence: A Thought

One of the things I love about the teaching/training sphere is the room for reflection. In the sessions I deliver we recently went over a cycle for performance improvement. It is a familiar cycle – plan, perform, review, revise to start the whole cycle again. I reckon done properly we might progress has we paid […]

Being Complicit – Finding Reconciliation

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing (Edmund Burke) It appears of late there have been a number of revelations regarding the misdeeds of Jimmy Saville that have left people shocked and stunned that such acts could go on with nothing being done about it until a […]

QOI: Race, Culture and Identity in Christ

Yesterday the Question of Identity (QOI) series stated with a banner statement I made about my identity. That statement is the result of a number of years wrestling over the various appeals certain factors make for defining me. My nationality, my ethnicity, the football team I support, my church affiliation even my family name. Here […]

Question of Identity

I have read and heard a lot of things lately that intrigues me. I hope to share more in future entries. What I want to state here, though, is something fundamental to my entire existence. Jesus Christ is my identity. That has huge cultural, social, political and relational consequences. It is a truth that shapes […]

Go Compare? I Don’t Think So

For what feels like years, part of the world of television advertising has been dominated by the GoCompare campaign. First you had the singing tenor dude doing his thing in various settings and then the company really latched onto the public sentiment by sending him up as a target figure for the millions who were […]

Declaration and Demonstration – Word and Works

One of the most intriguing people I’ve come across in my time in Bletchley goes by the name Ricky Rew. I’m not intrigued by the name, fascinating though it is, I’ve been tremendously blessed by this man primarily because he captures that precious quality of being very real and human and being very much motivated […]

If A Brother Is Found In A Fault …

The family were in the car and we were travelling up the motorway to visit a friend. My wife and I were glad that the children had taken the time to catch up on some sleep, as it meant we could catch up on some conversation. A friend of ours who had been a pivotal […]

Propulsion to Mission – There Were Ninety and Nine

I was minding my own business. Honest. I wasn’t going to bother anyone about anything. My wife and first born daughter were not feeling well at all, I was on hand to serve them in as much as I could, as well as look after the two younger daughters. I was minding my own business […]

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