I read this article and I was angered. The news surrounds the sentencing of a ‘drugs lord’ who had been trafficking drugs and being a menace to some in an area of Jamaica. I was not angered by the sentencing. I was angered by the levels of corruption and injustice that can be seen at […]
Read More Injustice from the Bottom UpThe world of football, is one that I am fairly familiar with, being a bit of a football buff meself. In the world of football, I would say the most important person is the manager. Players can come and players can go, it is the manager who is responsible for selecting the team, for selecting […]
Read More When Loyalty Is Unhealthy ConformityOn sojoruning through dark times in my life, one of the things I came across rather heavily was the truth that I do not have the right. A brief, half-hearted read of the apparent Sermon of the Mount sees Jesus not dishing out a bunch of rights for me to demand from others and from […]
Read More Serve or Be Served: I Don’t Have The Right – I Have The ResponsibilityWe live in a very image conscious age. The popularity of visual media that ever more focuses on the details that makes one appealing and attractive makes the appearance of even greater importance in the economy of life. This is not to suggest that presentation is not important. When God told Samuel that man looks […]
Read More MTP12 Remix – Truth To Tell – Truth To LiveWealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. (Proverbs 11:4) The pursuit for material gain is rampant. Who you are can be determined by what you have materially (or not). It is only too easy to get sucked into it with it defining your ‘quality of life’. Yet God states, wisdom […]
Read More MTP11 Remix – When Wealth Is WorthlessThere is a great deal of safety buying into simple statements about complex issues. Rather than make things messy and look into how things might work in certain scenarios it can be easier and more simple to just refer to a familiar catchphrase or phrase that has been recited ad nauseaum. For example, if you […]
Read More Have You Ever Thought About What God Teaches About Sex?I was thinking about divorce recently. Not to worry, I wasn’t thinking of it in direct relation to my current marriage to my first wife (unpick the faux pas from that!) I was thinking of it in terms of what a tragedy and a trauma it is on so many different levels. Even in the […]
Read More Compelled by Compassion, Motivated by MercyHonestly, I was minding my own business. Online as I am wont to do on occasion, finding out more about the new Fred Hammond album about to be launched and checking up on his web-site which was still celebrating plans for his organisation in 2011. (Not saying the site is in need of an update, […]
Read More Revisiting The Secular-Spiritual DivideSo I was in my room watching gospel videos and truly getting into it. By getting into it I meant shouting and hollering and bawling and whooping and jumping and stomping. Almost as though my football team had won something, except this was something that actually mattered. In the comfort and privacy of my own […]
Read More Me & My Private FaithJust a quick one for you, click the link to watch/hear a perspective on inter-racial marriage from a guy I admire, John Piper. Do not just consider it from the perspective of marriage, consider carefully the implications for church living in a multi-cultural society, with a mission to reach those of different ethnicities. Consider those […]
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