Reading some of the Proverbs recently, got me thinking. Some read these and consider them to be common sense. Yet if experience teaches you anything, is that common sense isn’t all that common. That’s why it’s worth noting these principles and worth seeing how important they can be to advised approaches to living. There is […]
Read More A Brief Word on Wisdom and Common SenseWhen I was a lot younger, I was given to having a rather dramatic reaction to things that happened. A good way of expressing that is my given moods when my football team won or lost. If my team won, I would be so buoyant you would not be able to stop me walking on […]
Read More Everything Is Not RuinedPicture this. The man is put in the cell and you hear the door slam behind him. It’s dark, it’s confined and the sense of being closed in on yourself soon becomes suffocating. No one like to be locked up. Apparently. The visual is related to someone being incarcerated. They have committed a crime and […]
Read More Locked UpFood. Not just food, but a meal. And not just a meal, but the full three courses. Ahhh there’s something about it. There’s something about it that says so much more than just eating because you’re hungry. I don’t tend to talk while I’m eating. There’s something about the focus on the consuming of the […]
Read More Like A Good MealYou can’t put everything that’s in the Bible in a play or a television production or a movie. Genealogy for a starter would be tough to portray. There are parts of Scripture, however, that lends itself beautifully for dramatisation. You ever read those narrative parts in a way that was captured in a visual manner. […]
Read More Dramatisation: You Ever Done This?Context. Where does it fit? Why does it fit there? What came before it and what came after it? Is it all we need to know or is there more? Can I get away with my understanding of it as I look at it, or do I have to do some more work around it? […]
Read More Getting the Whole StoryThe thing about redemption is that it screams out “there is hope!” Even in the worst situations where hope appears lost, the story of redemption says it’s worth holding out for hope. The theme of redemption is particularly something that means a lot to me. There are so many episodes in my life where I […]
Read More Themes I Love: RedemptionMaybe it’s not the whole truth. The book that these people follow makes some interesting statements and assertions. Among them is a kind of exclusivity about what it is to be right. It kind of implies that the only way for life in its fullness is through this faith in this one guy. However, maybe […]
Read More Truth and the Christian Way: OptionsJesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. That is something I believe with all of my heart. That truth has become more important the more I’ve walked with Him. Embracing Him in this way changes things and how I view things too. With every passing year, I see the need to be […]
Read More Truth and the Christian WayThere is something about the drive of anyone with great ambition. That capacity to stay focused on their objective to the cost of everything else. In some ways it’s an admirable quality. In other ways it can be rather disturbing especially when applied to wicked ends. It says a lot about their appetite that they […]
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