Security in Certainty

There is security in certainty. The baby is secure in the arms of her mother.  She often behaves with the certainty that her mother will always be there when she wants to sleep or when she wants a feed.  That level of certainty is never questioned by her at that age.  It’s not even an […]

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Thanking God For The Valley

At the moment I enjoy my sleeping patterns. In the evening my wife and youngest daughter will retire to bed at a relatively early time and being exhausted by events, I won’t have that much stamina to stay up for that much longer and I’m usually gone before 11pm. Almost like clockwork way before 6am […]

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In It For The Reward

(Remember the Prayer Points for this week) This morning I posted a current favourite on me playlist, Marvin Winans’ singing The Winans classic ‘For We May Never Know‘. In that song I suggested you listen carefully to the lyrics and as with most classics you could spend considerable time on different parts of the song. […]

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Leaving Stoke – One Year On

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 […]

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Jesus – Access Opened Or Denied

Before I wrote this morning’s post on Jesus being the Door, I read and re-read John 9 and 10. In the preparation for these posts I would often spend some time pondering on my assumptions about certain references and how they match up to other perspectives on those same scriptures. For example John 10:10 is […]

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Never Go Back

In football, it’s often advised to those who have managed a club not to go back and manage that club again.  The thinking is if you were a success at the club before, you’re not guaranteed to be a success again and seriously run the risk of tarnishing the good name you established before.  Likewise […]

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