Last night I was watching Family Fortunes. As I’ve said before FF was at its best when Bob Monkhouse was the host and the ones I recorded were in the days after Bob when Les Dennis hosted the show. It feels like he was the longest serving host of the show as well. Although he […]
Read More Something To Boast InOne 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. […]
Read More Another Brief Word On Church And MeI enjoy the ‘making of’ features on DVD’s, I like the background and motivations for the final product that I see. So I want to give some insight into the making of this morning’s Jesus Is … on the True Vine. First of all, that was not the plan. For a matter of days I […]
Read More Being FruitfulFor he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both […]
Read More Jesus Is … The Prince of PeaceWhat follows are some thoughts motivated by further contemplation of this morning’s reference to Jesus being the Temple. ~(Thanks also to Alan for his insightful blog on the issue from another perspective.) I don’t think the irony could be anymore apt than seeing the real temple of the Living God singing a song about devoting […]
Read More Jesus And The Building ProjectRecently I talked about my journey from an extremely insular perspective on faith to something a bit more expansive, without capitulating to the demands of being totally inclusive. Since I wrote that entry I’ve been reflecting on another aspect of my journey which revealed quite a bit about my character and why the sacrifice of […]
Read More Spiritual SnobberyBefore 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 […]
Read More Jesus – Access Opened Or DeniedI am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. (John 10:9) ‘When one door shuts, another opens’. So often those pursuing places of peace try so many doors that only end in brick walls. Doors of legalism or doors of liberalism both […]
Read More Jesus Is … The DoorYou what? If he dies he will live? If he lives, he will never die? What’s that all about? What does that mean? How can that be? What kind of mumbo-jumbo is that? Not only that – but to say He is that – as in He embodies returning and never-perishing life – how can […]
Read More Jesus Is … The Resurrection and the LifeThere are times when I am only too aware that doing a job you love is not that straightforward. Sometimes I detect an urge to get the better paying job on the thinking that as it pays better it will be better, when the reality doesn’t always match up. I realised a fair while ago […]
Read More Serving Man: Days When I Love My Job
