I remember holding on tightly. Not that it hurt him particularly, because this five year-old’s grip on the man’s hand was hardly going to leave a massive impression. I gripped it though. I gripped it for all it was worth, because it was a sign of safety. It was a sign that all was well […]
Read More Holding OnIt is one of the smartest things I’ve witnessed. Often in my life I’m very much aware that it is only me. Nobody else is me and nobody else has lived my life and is living my life. Following that route, it’s also a reality that there are things that concern me that I feel […]
Read More The Call to Giving As LivingThere is something about the growing up experience that leads you back to where you started. Not necessarily with your parents. Not exactly at the place of your birth. Just the sense that however big and independent you get, whatever material possessions you gain and lose, there is something of far greater worth. Every so […]
Read More Year Eleven – Found A Homewho would be on your list of acknowledgements? A group of us was looking at what Paul of Tarsus wrote about in the final part of his letter to the church in Rome. The list of names there was quite something. It wasn’t even exhaustive. For all the names he wanted to be remembered and […]
Read More A List of AcknowledgementsTax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them! (Luke 15:1-2) Aren’t we making our way home? The setting sees certain religious observers critiquing Jesus for the people that He hung […]
Read More Are All Sons Lost?Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will […]
Read More Can We Get In?Have you ever had one of those … interesting conversations? I was wondering how our mutual friend was doing. For the next ten minutes a diatribe was outlined to me of the things that our mutual friend was doing wrong. I was really getting it in terms of just how poorly this person was doing. […]
Read More Mercy-Filled Relationships: An InsightHe knows you will do what it takes. In some ways, it sounds like what Jesus expects from His followers is a lot. Some of the things He says, sound extreme. For example, If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one […]
Read More M.O.T.H. – Purity and Clinical FaithfulnessThere was a conversation I was having with a friend and they were talking about collaboration. The conversation reminded me of aspects of a background that I used to know. In this environment, there was a greater concern for retaining information than for collaboration. I could understand the concern to not allow things to be […]
Read More Another Word on CollaborationOf late, I’ve enjoyed writing about who I would invite for dinner if I could invite anyone. It was a five part series featuring an introduction and then insight into four guests that I would love to have the meal with and you can get more information through the links – the first guest, the […]
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