I am grateful for my upbringing that brought me into contact with hymns. It’s interesting, I think hymns can be both overrated and under-utilised. Growing up there was such a reliance on hymns that it was as though the only songs worth singing had to be written before most of the singers were born. That’s […]
Read More A Short Thing on HymnsThey stand up to give a hearty applause. Here in Britain, we are approaching the end of the Autumn Conference season. By that I am referring to that time of year where the major political parties have their gatherings. There was first the Liberal Democrats, then last week there was Labour and this week it’s […]
Read More Heartily Applauding The LeaderAs we have it at the moment, if you think about it, however glorious and illustrious it might appear, death wins. You know that. They are born and as soon as that happens death is inevitable. Whatever purpose you look for while you’re alive does nothing to prevent the inevitable. You know that. So on […]
Read More When Life Defeats DeathAt the all you can eat buffet, my colleagues made a smart decision. They would just get a refill glass of drink. As it suggests, the one-off payment handed over power to the individual to get a soft drink and return for more whenever they liked. What made it a smart move was that they […]
Read More RefillThe character of Jesus is marked by humility. That character was marked by an activity of serving. Serving His Father and serving others. Indeed He served others for the sake of His Father and how He served others reflected His desire to be pleasing to His Father. It was a remarkable quality for the one […]
Read More Holy Habits: ServeExploring this particular habit is very close to my heart for a lot of reasons. The first thing to address, though, is about the holy habits themselves. There are some things we develop and cultivate rather simply and easily. There are parallels between a number of natural habits and holy habits. For example it doesn’t […]
Read More Holy Habits: WordA group of us met recently to look at the issue of prayer. A simple question was asked as to what was the stereotypical perspective on prayer. In the group was a range of ages from the very young to the not so very young and the responses that came back were to be expected. […]
Read More Holy Habits: PrayerIf Jesus gets in on the act of praise as a common activity, it makes sense that praise is a holy habit. When I think of what it is to praise and the heart from which it comes, there are a lot of good reasons why praise is an essential holy habit. I asked my […]
Read More Holy Habits: PraiseI love The Bible Project and their efforts to explain biblical themes in the manner they do. This video about holiness had me intrigued the first time I watched it. What any good teaching does for me is it leads me back to God in His Word. This video said something profound about Jesus and […]
Read More Holy Habits: A Picture of what it is to be HolyLately I have been considering the issue of holy habits and shared a little about it by way of a prelude. It is my intention to get into the habits in more detail as the blog entries come and go. At the moment though, I want to delve a little bit further into the issue […]
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