One of the reasons why I love my wife is because we have conversations that can lead to blog entries. There are other reasons – she is beautiful after all – but this is a good reason for the purposes of this entry. We spoke of a hypothetical situation. Here is the situation. Ron and […]
Read More When Do You Blow The Whistle?In itself there is nothing wrong with forms and routine. We are conditioned towards them even through things like day following night, winter and then summer and so on. There are rhythms of life that rightly help us determine what is going on. There is a problem, however, when the form becomes a formula and […]
Read More Faith Beyond The FormulaicNo one knows how long they will live. The invincibility of youth is only pierced by the occasional reminders of mortality when the peers are cut off in their prime. Other than that it is a time for planning and achieving and being everything great without a hint that will ever end. But it will […]
Read More Reaching Half-WayI wrote an email to a friend today. Back in the day I was encouraged to write letters. It was the time when there was this thing called penpals where you could befriend people from different countries by the power of the letter. I remember starting that. I remember not continuing it after long, because […]
Read More Bringing Me To TearsIt is true that sometimes the worst advert for Jesus Christ are the people who purport to follow Him. Let me bring that closer to home, sometimes I am the worst advert for Jesus Christ through my behaviour. It’s sometimes lax, apathetic and somewhat aloof to the situation that people struggle with every day. It […]
Read More I Will Be There For You – When Church Is Really ChurchBob had made up his mind on the issue. He had been out of work for two years, and he was now 50 years old. He didn’t feel he could go back to his last job because it had got him to the point of despair. Other than that his work history wasn’t much to […]
Read More Faith And Being RealisticThere was four of us seated round the table laughing about things like how you were considered a young man in the church until you reached 70 by which time you were sent to a home. Laughing stopped when we agaon considered the words of Jesus regarding aspects of the cost of discipleship. Anyone coming […]
Read More Creating the Culture for Cross CarriersChristianity can appear fairly grim, sombre and serious at times. Have you ever seen people’s faces while they are singing? If you get the chance, watch a video on YouTube or wherever of people singing and watch it on mute and see the facial gestures. They can be singing about a love so pure and […]
Read More In All Seriousness We Don’t Have To Be All SeriousTrue story. I scheduled yesterday’s post after writing it way back on Saturday. I wrote it, scheduled it, then forgot all about it. Yesterday, something, maybe a tweet or a blog, got me thinking about confessing. On the strength of that I did a series of tweets with the hashtag #IMustConfess. Of course later on […]
Read More What’s The Fuss With Confession?The woman told me she belonged to a fellowship. This woman, who for the sake of the argument we’ll call Alison (not her real name), did not know I was a Christian. I don’t always jump at every opportunity to say ‘Snap’ whenever I come across a professing believer. Alison was a lot more open […]
Read More When You Think Of Church, Do You Think Of Confessional Community?
