Earlier on this month I had a short post on walking in the light. I want to spend some time exploring what I meant by what I wrote. Depression is real. I am aware of some well-meaning brothers and sisters who wish to think otherwise. I know some well meaning saints in Christ who are […]
Read More Community: Follow The Light Out Of The DarknessIt seems to be the way we operate. We ask who is the best and to decide that we set up measuring points of achievement and success. Implicit in that is the spirit of competition where I see if I am better than you. If I am, I can take the kudos and the perks […]
Read More What’s Wrong With A Bit Of Competition?I’m sure this is not how community works at all. I’m sure people freely decide to think things through carefully for themselves so they know why they are doing what they are doing. I’m sure people who have views, opinions and beliefs are in no way pressured to do so by their peers and contemporaries. […]
Read More I Wonder If This Is How Community Works?I really love this cartoon. When I saw it, I just chuckled to myself and said “Yes, yes I know the feeling.” Thankfully I believe He is finding community and loving to be a part of it and encouraging the brothers and sisters in it to keep on following Him and being His Body on […]
Read More Jesus Is Looking For CommunityIt really does take all-sorts. What you’re about to read is not an advert for the political/social philosophy of diversity. You might have a policy in your work place about diversity. I know my workplace does. As with a lot of employment policies it has good intentions, but because of the level of emotional and […]
Read More Appreciating Diversity“I would never do a thing like that!” I have said it before and God has brought me up on it. The best way He’s brought me up on it is to put me in a situation where I do the exact thing I said I would never do. I’m sure that’s not happened to […]
Read More Wisdom For This Moment: No Such Thing As Divorce-ProofOne of the things I love about the community of faith is that it gives you time to be superficial and fake whilst giving you time to realise that being way is going to profit you nothing. In as much as some centre their Christian expressions to the weekly service, there are those who centre […]
Read More Going Beyond The SuperficialThis won’t be long and will be the first of a two part series. I need to confess that I have far too often been critical. Things are not the way they should be, in the imperfections there’s a sense that things could be so much better. Rather than acting in hope of seeing and […]
Read More Being The Change You Want To SeeAs I understand it, yesterday was a celebration of All Saints according to church tradition. Of course those of you in my age group will think that it is a celebration of an all-girl pop/RnB group know for among other things slowing down the tune to Amazing Grace and putting some sort of ballad groove […]
Read More Thanks To All (the) SaintsBoth sides of the fence, eh? Nothing quite like it. I have clear recollections of being a boy growing up in the family home in Wellingborough. I would get upset about something and feel aggrieved at the injustice of it all and my voice would raise and I’d overstep the mark and my Dad in […]
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