The storms in life can truly be raging. It can get to the point where you don’t know if you’re going to make it. You can be hanging on for dear life to anything that will hold you as you’re buffeting one way and the other. Bills blowing on the one side. Relationship challenges whipping […]
Read More Calming the Storm – To Get AcrossDad, what does a peaceable person look like? Why do you ask, son? I was talking to Mr Allen the other day and he was remarking on how impressed he was by how Miss Bridges conducted herself in the meeting last week. He said she behaved in a very peaceable manner. Oh? That’s what he […]
Read More The Kind of Person to Follow: PeaceableSo. People get excited by a vision. In a certain period of time we will achieve this. After a particular portion of time we will be here. Follow me for a future where this and that and the other will be realised. Nothing wrong with that to a degree. I was reading the biblical narrative […]
Read More Looking To Him For How Far To LookKathy had just the right approach to Paige. Paige had shared the news about her Mum’s passing with the team. She was subdued as she made the short announcement. It instantly seemed to take the air out of the room. Any joviality that was in the room evaporated to be replaced with the distinctly sombre […]
Read More Just The Right ApproachJesus took some of His disciples with Him and told them to pray while He went off to pray. He went away and agonised in prayer. When He returned to check on His friends, He found them sleeping. In fact the account recorded by Luke has a fascinating phrase that they were ‘sleeping for sorrow’. […]
Read More Burdens Are LiftedWhat happens when they leave? There was this season where my wife and I were a part of this community group. We helped to form it with another couple. Over time we gathered a small number of people in the group and we were all committed to shared goals and values. At least it looked […]
Read More When They LeaveThere is something about having a fit of rage. Observing people have a temper tantrum can be as fascinating as it is tragic. You see the person go from mildly irritated to apoplectic in the space of mere seconds. They really do appear like a boiling pot that overflows as they pour out their rage […]
Read More Blow Up or Build UpWhat a wonderful thing the mind is. There are certain settings you can find yourself in where external circumstances can be disturbing. If your mind dwells on those circumstances and then begins to process it, you can find yourself in some bad places. This is what makes the mind so fascinating. There is the capacity […]
Read More Fly AwayServing is a matter of perspective. There is serving from a position of being the expert. You are the know-it-all. It is the privilege of others to be served by you. You say you’re serving us, but really it’s all about you. There is serving from a position to look up at how the one […]
Read More Looking Up to a Brighter ViewThe issue has always been about who rules – who is in charge. The answer proposed has been idols and figureheads that man would put up to offer their allegiance and worship. This has led to nothing but misery and impoverishment. This is one of the reasons why judgement is a strong theme throughout the […]
Read More MWTM: Zechariah Part 2 – The King is Coming
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