You know brotherly love. Honestly. You know it. Yet there is more to know about it. You don’t even need to have a brother to know brotherly love. You don’t even need to be male to know brotherly love. When Peter encourages his readers to add brotherly love, he could have been referring to the […]
Read More Add To Your Godliness – Brotherly Love“I remember … When they were young, they would fall, hurt themselves and come running to me. They ran to me because I could take the pain away. They ran to me because I could make it better. They ran to me because everything they needed was found in me. They got older and thought […]
Read More On The Run: The Problem in a MemoryInteresting Psalm this. House, city, anxiety, sleep and the benefit of children. Not on the surface the most connected of issues, until you look at that first word: house. I don’t read the house mentioned here as only a physical construction. It’s not just the bricks and mortar. It is all about the habitat. Whether […]
Read More Psalm 127 – Who Is Building Your House?Blessed. What a word. What a thought behind the word. What a delight in the thought behind the word. The more I consider the word, the more I appreciate it as a relational thing. Someone blesses me – that says something about the person and their connection to me. Being blessed is no even so […]
Read More December Thanks #01: FamilyRecently the family supported the first two girls as they represented their school football team in a tournament with a few other schools. The team that my daughters played in won the tournament. The feeling of exhilaration and euphoria was significant for me. Seeing my girls do so well in their effort and then help […]
Read More All That Thrills My Soul …Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But King David mourned many days for his son. (2 Samuel 13:37 NIV) David had done wrong in plotting and scheming, it cost the life of a husband and a baby boy. Yet the punishment of God was to extend to his […]
Read More Sam’s 2nd Epic 13 – The Dysfunction of David’s DynastyOK from the get-go all Dryden Family members at ease. I ain’t defecting. (Yet) I was watching Captain America: Civil War for the second time, recently, and I intend to watch it a third time as soon as I can. I love it for a lot of reasons, but this is not a movie review […]
Read More Who Are My Family?My brother, David, celebrates the birth of his third child. It’s significant to me for a this reason: Our Dad also had the blessing of three children in his household. As you may be aware I also have three children. So David being the father of three children wraps up the Dryden hat-trick of hat-tricks! Dad, David […]
Read More Dad, David and I – A Story Of Three’sThis aspect of our identity in Christ is fundamental. Missing this means missing the whole point of being His disciples. Enjoy. For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More We Are Family: Our Transformed Identity from Caesar KalinowskiMeatloaf always made me chuckle with the line I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that. For the Meatloaf fans, feel free to let me know how I got the wrong end of the stick and don’t appreciate the lyrical beauty of the piece. It still makes me chuckle. Anyway, I was […]
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