(Reflections on the sign of Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding in Cana found in John 2:1-11) The scene is painted fairly clearly by John. It’s a wedding, there are festivities involved, Jesus’ Mum is there and so is Jesus and His disciples. So far, so straightforward. There’s that interesting conversation that takes […]
Read More Seven Signs: Wonder at the WeddingBut the wisdom from above is full of mercy and good fruits James 3:17 (ESV) Whatever you’re full of tends to come out. You cannot give what you have not got. It is no surprise, then, that when it comes to the wisdom that we operate by there are different products that emerge from what we’re […]
Read More A Word Of Wisdom: It’s About Being Full Of Good FruitsWhen you are in a foreign environment, you can ask a lot of questions. In the strange, there can be issues of what is worth holding onto and what’s worth releasing. This series began with reflections of my own time when I left home for the strange world of university. It can be easy to […]
Read More The Daniel Files: 14 – What An Awesome God – A ConclusionThis is another entry in the ongoing blog conversation with the better brother of our sisters, David. Here’s the premise. Previously in the conversation: What it is with David, you see, is that he knows that not everything is straightforward. There are a number of things in life that are complex and require wholesale changes […]
Read More ADBC: 14 – Law, Love and LiverpoolSo, this is November. You come across this month and you’re facing the tail end of the year. Not quite time to get all reflective on how things have gone. But it is time to start feeling things getting colder and time to wrap up and conserve as much energy as you can. Of course, […]
Read More Dryden Update: Grateful for Mercies Of All SizesI wanted to be a journalist. Not because the life of a journalist seemed particularly glamourous, it was more about how the perception of them was of those who would go searching for truth in current events and report them. For me, it was about the words and the power of the words not just […]
Read More Dryden Links: A Christian Response To The Climate CrisisSeven years ago, it was my pleasure to blog through the book of the gospel according to John a chapter a day. Having finished a series on the seven churches that John is instructed to write to in Revelation, it just felt timely to follow that up with another set of sevens that John writes […]
Read More Seven Signs: IntroductionBut the wisdom that comes from heaven is … full of mercy James 3:17 (ESV) Have you noticed that there’s a word recognised as ‘merciful’ and a word ‘merciless’? There’s no word as yet which can help us like, mercisome. That would really help because a lot of us would find that word very fitting. Yet […]
Read More A Word Of Wisdom: It’s About Being Merciful(Reflections and notes on Daniel 12. The series has covered the previous chapters in Daniel, you can click here to read those. Previously, following the introduction to the encounter with a messenger of the Lord after going through a time of fasting, Daniel is given a great unveiling of God’s plan for the future. This encounter concludes […]
Read More The Daniel Files: 13 – Faithful To The End, For Glory In The EndThis is another entry in the ongoing blog conversation with my parents’ better son, David. Here’s the premise. Previously in the conversation: It was a chance for David to get his writing into some lists as I asked him to give five things on this, that and the other. ‘This’ was a list of friendships […]
Read More ADBC: 13 – Education, The Law and Family Matters
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