(Please check this week’s Prayer Points) Paper Talk Inspiration The Guardian, as ever objective and in no way leaning to a liberal, humanist and secular agenda, asks the question should schools require Christian worship? This comes at an intriguing time as I just read about the Anabaptist movement which was all for the separation of church […]
Read More The Church And The State – Educating Christopher’s Children(Please check this week’s Prayer Points) I did two of my favourite things today – went to a church gathering and watched a football match. My engagement with both is the set-up for a look at something rather important to how I currently view life. I’m a bit concerned (No. 15 of 101 Understatements of the […]
Read More Church Life – Observing or Participating(Please check this week’s Prayer Points) Some sins are blatantly horrific and disgusting to the eye – murder, sexual sins, stuff like that. Easy to hear them and be revolted by them and subsequently revile those who commit such atrocities. Not long ago I was talking about character assassination in line with why people kill […]
Read More Gossip – Going Against The FlowIntroduction Friday evenings. Back when I was growing up (not that I’ve stopped, you understand) at home with my siblings and parents (in reverse order, obviously), this evening was significant. TV would be turned off. The football magazines or comics would have to be put away. Before sun-set any necessary house chores were quickly completed. […]
Read More Prayer Points (WE-110108)You ask God for something and He gives it to you, but you don’t recognise it because it didn’t come as you were expecting it and you often only notice in retrospect. So get this. It’s a Wednesday evening, I’m on my way home from work. On the train I’m so mentally exhausted that I […]
Read More Plugging Into Corporate PrayerAs you know, you don’t have to be a pregnant woman to have cravings. It can be a day when you’ve been busy for a period of time and there is a lingering desire in the taste-buds for something familiar, or something particular whether familiar or not. You might remember back in the day Sprite […]
Read More Craving For Christian CommunityYou should have already gathered that this season has been about discovering more about who Jesus is even if ever so briefly. Lately I have had plenty of opportunity to reflect on how that makes a difference to every day living. The Life Context Of course first let us talk about football. Watching the game […]
Read More Building Life Around JesusRecently I celebrated five years of blogging. In as much as I enjoy reading and writing, it takes certain things to get me to review what I’ve written. When it comes to the topic of freedom I was surprised to see how much I had written on the topic of freedom. Not too long from […]
Read More Are You Free?School plays. Did you love school plays? Even if they were just plays for your year or your class, did you like them? I liked them. I remember doing ‘There’s A Hole In My Bucket’ at Infant School – but that is a vague recollection of my first performance. I remember the school plays when […]
Read More Leaving Stoke – One Year OnOne of the people I’ve come across on this Christian journey gave me the impression that his early spiritual development was on his own – it was just him and the Holy Spirit – not other influences, just him, the Spirit and his Bible. That came across to me at the time as rather intimidating. […]
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