Children Know How

August means the Summer holidays. It is the only month in the year where children in compulsory education are not under compulsion to attend school.  Back in the day when I was a child I didn’t really look forward that much to holidays and August was a notoriously long month.  As an adult I don’t […]

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Called To Be Served

The mission of Christ was not to be served but to serve. That lays a template for those who follow Him to likewise have the heart of a servant – not a volunteer.  The servant is at the beck and call of those who she serves.  That is why we call Jesus, Lord.  He calls […]

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Playing Out Of Position

Analogies. I love them.  One picture to help with the point that you’re making.  A picture that is easy to understand and its basics can be seen in the other side. Football analogies. I love them.  I love football.  I have a point to make.  I make the point by using something I love.  Just […]

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Talking Point: Christian Divorce

Let me see if I’ve got this right.  When people get married the deal is that this arrangement is til death do us part.  Yet some stats somewhere suggest that Christian marriages are just as likely to end in divorce as non-Christian marriage. Whatever the stats say the reality is it is not uncommon to […]

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Catching Up On Married Life

Having only just returned from a diversion I wasn’t really keen to go on another one as far as this blog was concerned.  So the last few days without entries were not my intention, but there is a good reason.  As you might recall from Friday, my wife and I celebrated nine years of marital […]

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Still Crazy After All These Years

Today my wife and I celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. Birthdays and anniversaries are good times to celebrate what it based on what was in the hope for what will be.  Something recently made me think of the significance of the day.  I had the privilege of having three good men accept becoming my groomsmen […]

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