I love songs that explore the workings of the writer in their relationship with God. Praise songs that identify characteristics of God are great and have their place, but often they can become somewhat routine and fall under a kind of rote memory exercise. When you’re listening to someone’s heart pouring out their relationship, there’s […]
Read More DMCD Songs: Bless My Soul – Marcus ColeThis blog entry was written yesterday. A fair bit of preparation has gone into today’s proceedings, there’s the highlighting of the previous blog I wrote on this very subject. Earlier on today I posted the first musical tribute about today based on my heart’s desire and then around lunchtime I also put together another musical […]
Read More Thank God For MarriageToday is the seventh year wedding anniversary of the marriage of Authrine Elizabeth Burton and Christopher Luketon John Dryden. That marriage has been based on a love supreme. (So why didn’t I put that track on, eh? Wait for it.) that love is one that goes beyond affection and domestic bliss. It has lead to […]
Read More Charge It To My Head – CommissionedThe whole responsibility thing, isn’t all bad. I say that, because often the word responsibility doesn’t elicit shouts of joy and acclaim. Yet there are some real benefits to taking responsibilities seriously – some joyful benefits at that. I was reflecting on that today as I went about the domestic chores and family duties that […]
Read More On Personal ResolutionsSkeletons in the closet. What a wonderful phrase and a concept that says so much about our tendency to not be completely transparent about who we are. It doesn’t have to be anything major, but it’s enough for us to store it away in the hope that no one will ever choose to investigate that […]
Read More Skeletons in the ClosetDon’t worry if you’re not into football. this is not a big footbally blog. It’s not going to be a blog entry of any significant size anyway, because I’ve got some ‘family ministry’ to do. I’ve been banging on a bit about family life and one element that has been interesting in my family fortunes […]
Read More The Role Of Football In The Dryden FamilyYeah there’s the Jesus stuff which is very important to me. There is the church stuff, which is also very important. There are the ideas that knock around my head on other issues to talk about (for example I’m thinking about a series on All My Working Life). Yet from time to time it’s just […]
Read More Just Free-BloggingFinally we complete the mini-series that I’ve been writing about the family and my developing understanding of the this crucial foundation of society. It would be useful to summarise how I came to this point with a couple of dating scenarios. In January 1990 I was a 12 year old boy whose concept of family […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Where I Am NowI told you yesterday that sometimes concepts and ideas for blog entries can come in like a flood. So for example we have the family development series yet to be completed, and I started off something yesterday about reading and writing that I’ve yet to finish off. Now for these two I already have it […]
Read More Because Who’s Worth It? My Problem With Self-EsteemThe concluding part of our brief series on my growing understanding of family is coming up soon. Today though, I was reflecting on the nature of friends as I was looking to update me Facebook page. My relationship with Facebook has been interesting since I signed up to it about a year or so ago. […]
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