The assumptions we make, eh. It’s like every now and then certain things that I take for granted crop up and challenge me to rethink whether or not it’s worth accepting. Often the case is that it is worth accepting on amended terms. Sometimes the case is that they are not to be accepted at […]
Read More Expect Respect?It is very difficult to be a follower of Jesus Christ and not be an irritant to your culture. Some succeed in not being a full-blown offence to those around them, but most in one or shape or form make those who live in their culture rather uncomfortable. This is not a deliberate ploy to […]
Read More Upsetting the Status QuoI could have put this in The Other Place, but when you add a number of factors it fits this place better. Stevie is a much admired contributor to the music scene over the last 40 plus years – almost the entire lifetime of Donnie himself. So it’s fitting that the brother who is not […]
Read More CD Songs: Donnie Sings StevieSo following the article on Thursday and my thoughts on that there were the services going on today. My friend Rob Simmonite also had this to blog on the situation. On the one hand it’s a time to be grateful for the sacrifices of those brave officers etc. It’s also, however, a chance to consider […]
Read More War – What Is It Good For?There’s this provocative blogger called Lionel Woods (he’s one of the dudes I recommend in the list on the right). I love his blogs because he does not tow the line, say the safe stuff and conform to comfortable conventional convenient Christianity. Obviously having a blog, he has a Facebook account where he leaves even […]
Read More Is There Such A Thing As Safe Sex?Deborah, my beloved first-born, asked me recently why she would have to be quiet after break today (Thursday). I thought that was a bit of an odd question to ask until my wife helped me understand that it was Remembrance Day with the poppies and the things related to it. When that finally clicked, it […]
Read More Always Remember: Keep This In MindI am not sure if there is a more important social structure than the family. Some may argue the church, but that can be seen in the light of church is always meant to be like a family. How do I relate to God? As my heavenly Father. How is Jesus referred? The Son of […]
Read More What Is Family?I love words. That’s not the first time I’ve said that and it won’t be the last. It is hopefully something that is fairly obvious from this here blog which is driven by them as well as the Other Place. In as much as I wouldn’t class myself as a high intellectual, I acknowledge that […]
Read More The Word In The Flesh – Not On PaperAlthough I’ve not been blogging, I’ve been able to read other people’s blogs and one that I enjoy is Arthur Sido’s The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia. A recent post he put together on the influence of Western thinking in how we read the Bible is one I strongly recommend reading. Without going […]
Read More Cultural ConditioningI love excuses. In the sense of the effort that we obviously put to divert the true source of responsibility to something completely inappropriate. When I say I love it, that’s because of the opportunity I get to respond to those excuses, or the chance to see how others will accept the pathetic excuses I […]
Read More 117 Hilarious & Sad Excuses: No. 47 – Nobody’s Perfect
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