Prayer Points (WE-110312)

Usually the PP that appear concern national concerns and the like, but this week more than any showed that it’s good to make some of the issues personal. Health I was not well at all this week. I suffered from flu like symptoms that affected my breathing, my sinuses, the heaviness of my chest, my […]

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Building Life Around Jesus

You should have already gathered that this season has been about discovering more about who Jesus is even if ever so briefly. Lately I have had plenty of opportunity to reflect on how that makes a difference to every day living. The Life Context Of course first let us talk about football. Watching the game […]

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Something To Boast In

Last night I was watching Family Fortunes. As I’ve said before FF was at its best when Bob Monkhouse was the host and the ones I recorded were in the days after Bob when Les Dennis hosted the show. It feels like he was the longest serving host of the show as well. Although he […]

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Jesus And The Building Project

What follows are some thoughts motivated by further contemplation of this morning’s reference to Jesus being the Temple.  ~(Thanks also to Alan for his insightful blog on the issue from another perspective.) I don’t think the irony could be anymore apt than seeing the real temple of the Living God singing a song about devoting […]

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Essentials

This has been due to be written for quite some time.  You may have remembered how I had to postpone it because of an outpouring on the issue of injustices and the like.  This is entry is based on some of the activities I’ve been up to at work.  We do these pre-designed modules in […]

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Oh The Glory Of Your Presence

There are a number of versions of this song doing the rounds going from efforts like this to more solo black-gospel style versions.  It’s not uncommon to hear this sung in crusades and large meetings from tele-evangelists, etc.  (I’ll leave that to you to decipher if that’s a good or bad thing, but it is […]

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Gratitude – Being Extra

Usually I prefer the understated, reserved and contained approach to matters.  Rather than look for a raucous laugh by a loud suggestion I prefer the power of the quip, just slip it in the middle of a regular sentence to elicit a wry chuckle to those who pick it up or that little groan by […]

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What’s Really Important

Do you ever ask yourself what’s really important? Do you ever answer yourself by a changed life – not drastically, but noticeably? Do you catch up on yourself when you said you would do something, or be somewhere and then find that you’ve wandered far from that goal, despite still having a desire to achieve […]

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