I am comfortable not understanding everything. Even about God. Seriously. I am comfortable. It’s enough for me to make the most of the little that I know before getting greedy about looking for knowledge and understanding on everything. What I am reminded of fairly often is that even what I know should not be taken […]
Read More Tweaking ItMen and brethren, what shall we do? Do you understand what you’re reading? Here’s water, what’s stopping me getting baptised? When the King heard the words, he rent his clothes and called for national reform. When he recovered his sight and got baptised, filled with the Spirit he went about preaching the good news. These […]
Read More How Now Should We Live?Paul encourages the church in Corinth something rather interesting. In 1 Corinthians 15:51 Paul says that not everyone will sleep but they shall all be changed. Of course that promise doesn’t mean much until we appreciate what we’re being changed from and we’re being changed to. The contrasts given are stunning – death to imperishable […]
Read More We Will All Be ChangedHumbly walking before God leaves no room for pride. I don’t presume to put my name in a blog entry because usually it’s not necessary. Indeed at the end of the day it’s not even about what I think about pride, it’s about what God thinks about it. Yet I felt it was good to […]
Read More Dryden On PrideTrue story. Last December – that’s right less than four months ago – I did an Emergency First Aid at Work course. This was a one day course that covered some aspects of First Aid at a basic level. Among other elements we learnt in the session was CPR and how to put someone in […]
Read More Qualities FadeSome people prefer my wife because she is straight talking. I can still recall a conversation I had with a friend where he asked me something innocuous and I just could not give him a simple straight answer. There was a story behind it. There was context to explain in it. There were concepts to […]
Read More Getting Straight To The PointIt’s not always easy. Sometimes it’s very hard and when the pressures hits at all angles it’s difficult to find consolation or some outlet to relieve the pressure. For me I used to have outlets but it has got to the point where even these prove to be inadequate to deal with the issues cracking […]
Read More The Word As A ComfortThere are things I have expected from sources that I have grown to feel comfortable expecting things. What I recognise again this week is that God is not confined to working through my norms. I am reminded of how ravens fed Elijah when he was feeling the intimidation following Jezebel’s death threats – that was […]
Read More The Great God Is Not Confined To Our NormsI can be incredibly insensitive. It might because of those times where I am deeply self-absorbed and all I am interested in is me. I can get that way and end up doing things and saying things that hurt others. As well as being self-absorbed, it can also come out of taking loved ones for […]
Read More So InsensitiveThe role of a servant can be trivialised and made to seem of little to no importance. Yet there is something about the role of serving the needs of others that has a rich reward, sometimes far greater than whatever the experience for the one who has been served. There are precious times when I […]
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