I love reading about Jesus retreating, spending time alone, sleeping. I love reading it because the human experience is about periods of exerting so much energy and effort and then being exhausted. There have been seasons where I’ve beenbwith groups who ran themselves into the ground. Their motives were noble, but the incessant activity was […]
Read More September Sojourn: He Makes Me Lie DownIt has not always been easy to live by faith. In fact thinking about it, I cannot recall a time where it has consistently been easy living by faith. What I can say is that despite my capacity to forget things, and sometimes take God for granted, He provides opportunities to be reminded about what […]
Read More September Sojourn: Walking To What You See By FaithOften when confronted by religious experts, Jesus would be bemused by their lack of understanding of things contained in the very words they studied so much. Once He outlined how they searched the Scriptures for what made for eternal life to completely miss the point when eternal life walked among them, healing the sick and […]
Read More September Sojourn: Spiritual LiteracyI am amazed by the love the Son has for the Father. I am amazed by the love the Father has for the Son. I am captured by the love of the Son for the Father. A love that saw Him voluntarily left His position in glory to take on humanity. A love that looked […]
Read More September Sojourn: What Manner Of Love Is This?Deborah is a smart girl. My firstborm really has a good brain operating that can pick up concepts very well and is able to explain them clearly and confidently. Seeing her doing it makes me very happy. This evening we were reading 1 Samuel 15 and considering why God wasn’t happy with Saul. Deborah heard […]
Read More September Sojourn: Taking God SeriouslyLazarus is dead. If Jesus, the guy who said he loved him, had shown up, this would never have happened. Now we’ve buried him. Our dear Lazarus. Gone too soon. Oh and now this Rabbi shows up. Now Jesus is here. Far too late. I’m sure His excuses will be hollow. All talk and when […]
Read More September Sojourn: Jesus Is The Resurrection and the LifeI am really in a spot of bother. I am a loner. I really am. I signed up for the charter many years ago and love my own company. And yet … The more I read of Jesus, the more I see how He invested in the life of others, the more I see how […]
Read More September Sojourn: Never AloneSome of us see the same thing happening and take more pleasure in criticising the thing than doing anything to address it. For years the same nonsense can be carrying on, and it’s obviously nonsense, but when the question is asked what to do about it, comments dry up and umming and ahhhing are the […]
Read More September Sojourn: Not Accepting The Status QuoWhile I go journeying through the gospel of John, my family have been embarking on a trek through 1 Samuel. This is an important book of the Bible for me. About 20 years ago, as a member of a church youth group, this was a book we were studying and memorising for a national quiz […]
Read More September Sojourn: Speak Lord, I’m ListeningIt was a cold building. The joke was that it was warmer outside than it was inside. Only thing being, it wasn’t so funny for the older folks who had gathered and suffered from ailments such as arthritis. It was tough expecting them to accept such conditions. Still, the congregation gathered in the most suitable […]
Read More September Sojourn: Enjoying God Together
