As I mentioned yesterday the writing that I was really psyched about over last weekend has begun to bear fruit. Thanks for your prayers in that regard and you can begin to read some of the products. In yesterday’s edition of The Sentinel the main newspaper for the Stoke-on-Trent area I wrote the Yours Faithfully […]
Read More Being TeachableThanks for your prayers. It was a pressurised five days from Thursday to Monday but through it all with the love of Jesus and a good supportive family around me as well as a gracious church leader I managed to pull through. One of the writing assignments is scheduled to be published later today and […]
Read More Jesus Knows What We’re LikeNow I could just go back to the series on fasting and give another part of the amazing journey of learning about God all the more. I am excited to do so and have lots to write. In as much as I want to do that, and this is not the launch of another side-track […]
Read More Updates and Churches vs. DenominationThanks for your patience, we’ve finally come to the end of the road and I can’t let go, it’s impossible, you belong to me, I belong to you. Hold on a minute – that belongs elsewhere doesn’t it? In any case, here we are at the climax of a minor detour from the thrilling fasting […]
Read More Nothing Personal Part 4Now you’re probably thinking that I’ve gone off the boil on the whole fasting topic with the lack of new material on the issue. That thought is wrong. I am keener than ever before to continue on the topic. There’s a whole backlog of stuff waiting to come tumbling out on the issue as it […]
Read More Nothing Personal Part 1As I thought that brief intermission from the series has allowed me to feel refreshed addressing this important issue of fasting. So where we’ve been is the ignorant start that led to an awareness of why fasting is so important. Nothing happens out of context so relationships have played a key role in growing in […]
Read More Fast and the Curious: Desperately Seeking GodRight so we’ve established my ignorant beginnings and the reason why this series is being written now as well as how I gained a level of consciousness about its importance. To re-state for personal context purposes I’ve got baptised in February 1994 after taking a relationship with Jesus a bit more intentionally in the later […]
Read More Fast For The Curious: Stokeyo DriftIt’s good to reminisce now and again. I was just sitting here putting together the strands to various blogs and interspersed in all the writing and sorting I looked back on some of the earlier blog entries on this blog. It’s quite something reading about how I introduced my family and some social justice issues. […]
Read More Mentor Birthday and Other ThingsSo in yesterday’s introduction to this brief series on fasting we discovered that although I was born in a Christian background, with believers who knew about fasting, and although the denomination to which I belong had fasting as a regular practice it took me the best part of 20 years before I even managed to […]
Read More 2 Fast 2 CuriousYeah I’ve posted quite a lot on Mr. Piper recently. I don’t want to give the impression that I idolise the dude – I trust I don’t. I admire him a lot, but appreciate that he is not at all the Messiah but a fallible vessel just like me. One of the things I love […]
Read More John Piper – Christ Above All Else?
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