I don’t think there’s much wrong in being honest about motivation. Why do you stay married? Why do you go to that church? Why are working in that job? Why do you support that football team? Not much wrong in being honest and saying you don’t know why you’re still married, you think it’s love […]
Read More Not Much Wrong In Being Honest About MotivationsAs with a lot of things in life, there is nothing wrong with standards in and of itself. Our idea of right and wrong, good and bad are based on standards. However those standards come about and whoever maintains, monitors or modifies them, they are there and usually there for good reason. Therein, however, lies […]
Read More StandardsThere are a few problems. There is no doubt about that. It’s well worth making it clear that there are problems. No point in hiding them. It’s also good to know a little about how those problems have come about and how we perpetuate them. That can be very useful. For all that though, something […]
Read More It’s Not Just About Showing The BadThere’s this way of thinking that I notice a few Christians have. How it operates is that whenever something horrific happens to them, they justify it in their minds in the same way that Joseph got over the betrayal of his brothers when he was sold to Egypt. When his brothers later on were a […]
Read More God With Us In Our Suffering: What If That’s All There Is?I spent a lot of my childhood reading. Yeah I spent a lot of it watching television as well. Probably too much television as I get the impression every time I am in a tight situation and suddenly recall the theme tune to Thundercats or the opening monologue of Adam, Prince of Eternia from He-Man. […]
Read More Perils Of Forgetting HistoryLife is precious. Life is particularly so because of the connections we make. From the beginning that connection between the mother and the child in the womb. It’s more than a physical connection. The connection is also there as the father notes the child that is a product of him and what has come from […]
Read More Connect and DisconnectIt’s fascinating, really. To get from one place to another, we initially walked. Then as the distance lengthened we used a horse. As we used the horse we noticed that the way was too rough, so we smoothed it somewhat. In doing so we established a set route for getting from the one place to […]
Read More About Building and TrainingIt doesn’t happen overnight. The thought of it happening quickly or instantly is one that proves to be very alluring indeed. A man is sick, a prayer is made, the man is healed. Job done. Everyone happy, praise God. That’s not always how God operates. In fact quite often there are things he will say […]
Read More In It For The Long HaulIt’s fascinating looking at how much my life has changed over the last 20 years. One of the major ways has been the influence of communications technology. If you had told me in 1996 that I would be able to write whatever I felt and be able to put it on a format where people […]
Read More Was That Really Worth It?2 Kings 6. Episode of Elisha being surrounded by the Syrian army. Elisha’s servant rightly expresses some concern for their situation. Elisha, however, is not concerned at all. In this sophisticated age of science and technology with scepticism over such episodes even some Christians would be wary of taking these episodes too seriously. It’s a […]
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