Different things motivate what I write about. I’m delighted to say joy is one of them. It’s worth me recording at the moment what gives me tremendous joy. That is the state of my marriage. My wife is a source of extreme joy to me. She is an amazing woman getting through all she gets […]
Read More What Makes Me Happy PresentlyI grew up very attached to my home. The physical home and my family was something I grew very comfortable with, to the extent I never really wanted to be anywhere else for too long. I remember the occasions we as a family would attend an event spanning a few days. Though the journey to […]
Read More Motivated Mission Must Mean MovementOn the path .. how do you deal with opposition from within? There’s the cry to yield to temptation. To admit defeat to laziness. To confess the tendency to be apathetic. To concede a desire to avoid hardship. On the path .. how you cope with the opposition from without? Work pressures, home challenges, financial […]
Read More The Different Paths of RighteousnessSolomon is a biblical character to be admired. There he is following in his father’s footsteps. There he is sorting out those that pose a threat to his reign. There he is conversing with God in a dream asking Him for the one thing he needs to rule well – wisdom. There he is wisely […]
Read More As Good As It GetsI really shouldn’t laugh, but I do. There’s a man by the name of Louis van Gaal. For those uninitiated in the ways of football (or soccer as my poor cousins across the pond refer to it), Van Gaal is a successful manager linked strongly with the vacant post at Manchester United. I hope I […]
Read More Asking The Wrong Questions AgainRome wasn’t built in a day. Apparently neither was Solomon’s temple built for the Lord God of Israel. There are some real precious verses in scriptures. The fact that it took seven years to build the great monument says much. It says that the best things come to those who wait. This is hugely reassuring […]
Read More Considering A Work In ProgressThere are pressures in life that try to force you to see the present in dismal ways. The state of your bank account, the things you haven’t done, relational demands, work deadlines and targets, the list goes on. Sometimes those pressures push us just to think the worst. Maybe it’s too much, maybe there are […]
Read More In The Light Of ContextThere’s a difference between asking God to search you and introspection. I am very used to introspection. It tends to end up being a long and winding road that leads to nowhere but the very self you’ve always been. The self you’re aware of, the self that keeps things going. It might seem very relieving […]
Read More Search Me O GodThe connections in my brain to issues are strange. A football manager gets sacked, I’m reminded of a song about a Grandfather’s Clock and then I’m thinking about the importance of letting things go. If you can make a straight line through those three points, perhaps you need to see someone about that. Let me […]
Read More Sometimes Things Must DieI woke up really early one morning. A group of us were going (well actually cruising) through Paul’s letters to the church in Corinth. I read 2 Corinthians 3 and was struck by this verse. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from […]
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