I acknowledge how important it is to do Bible Study carefully. It is very easy to get caught up with my personal agenda when looking at scripture and then using verses and sections to conform to my will and give me the answers I want to my issues. Indeed it is so easy to read […]
Read More He’s Talking To YouIt was sad to watch. He was earnest enough and wanted to get his point across. He employed the techniques he’d seen from others and was successful at getting a reaction from the audience. People even approached him afterwards and said they enjoyed what they heard. The truth was, in as much as there was […]
Read More Discipleship, Apprenticeship and PartnershipI had a fascinating weekend. I spent it with people who have shown incredible kindness and friendship to our family since moving to Derby. I also saw some other people who have in the past shown a great deal of love and care andd to me and my family. It reminded me of the power […]
Read More In Praise Of LoyaltyIt is not unusual to catch myself grumbling about something. Not that I love a good grumble, you understand. Most of the time I’m busy thinking about something, or smiling about something or laughing about something and some cases actually doing something! Yet there are those occasions in conversation, where after a while I discover […]
Read More What Were You Expecting?As ever in these cases, I blame Frank Viola. I was minding my own business, just reading the occasional blog here and there, when I came across this one from Frank recommending three books from some guy called DeVern Fromke. To put this in context, before Frank, I had never heard of T. Austin Sparks […]
Read More Another One Of Those ‘Oh I Get It Now’ Moments: Fatherhood in ChurchWhether it was looking at the deal in the meal, or the blind beginnings, the journey has truly been one traversing from one state of knowing to another. That has included subtle hints of a need for change, awakening experiences and a present stance of the Lord’s Supper being as much about mission as anything […]
Read More Journey into Joy in Communion – Part 5 – Universal and IntimateEarlier this week good news came to the Dryden Family. What did we do? We had a slap up meal featuring all our favourite cuisines. Girls had what they like. My beloved had what she liked. I had what I liked. Some might call it indulgence, but to us it was not a regular event, […]
Read More The Deal Is In The MealI got a phone call. It was from someone I’d not heard from in quite a while. As you know I’m not big on making phone calls and subsequently receiving phone calls is all the more of a surprise as it suggests someone WANTS to talk to me. So this ‘someone’ and I conversed for […]
Read More EffectsI was bound to write this blog entry! (Let me get that out of my system from now.) A good friend of mine shared something in a message about a trend seen in the experience of members of church in a locality. They seemed to shift away from seeing their homes as centres for hospitality […]
Read More What Are You Bound By?This is the first chance I’ve had to post my gratitude to God for February. Thank you God for February. It’s a sneeze of a month as you know. One minute it’s the first of February, you sneeze and the month is over. Yet it is a month. A month in which I finish the […]
Read More Dryden Update – March 2013
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