Just for today. Before today, I had never seen it before. After today, I will never see it again. During today, however familiar an activity may appear, it will be the first time that I’ve ever done it today. Yet the cycle does not change – evening and morning go on as they always have. […]
Read More Write OnThere were just half a dozen of them. Two married couples – Gary and Ruth along with John and Rachel and a young man called David and an elderly woman called Geraldine. They had professed to follow Jesus and were at various stages of their walk with Him. They had a love for Him and […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: The Light MovementYour mouth can be very useful when dealing with the battles of life. Muhammad Ali had this thing that he did back in his ascending years as a boxing champion. He’d have this habit of telling reporters the round in which he would deliver the knock out blow. Sure enough come that round the knock […]
Read More Say It, Bring ItFor what it’s worth. I like that phrase. I tend to use it almost as a disclaimer to leave it to the listener to take or leave what I’m about to say. There’s no pressure on them to take it, but I am putting the effort in the words that follows for it to be […]
Read More The Word of Great ValueLoving the word of God is not natural. The more I reflect on the matter and recall observations about people’s engagement with the word of God the more I’m convinced. Indeed, I am someone who considers himself to be a lover of words and am a somewhat voracious consumer of words. Yet when it comes […]
Read More Loving the WordThere was this great treat I used to get as a child. That treat was being able to go out for my Mum down the road to the shop to get something for her. Like some item she might need for cooking or something she was doing in the house. Sometimes it would be going […]
Read More Do You Remember What I Said?What makes the story exciting is how when you read it, the action, movement, drama and conversation feels alive and engaging. The problem often comes when we read things the wrong way and instead of getting energised by the life of the story, we get bogged down with the minutiae and invert elements, pervert elements […]
Read More By the Book and By the LifeWord in for the word out. There are different ways that the word gets in you. It can be read, it can be heard, it can be seen, it be felt. Of the various things that makes its way into the system not all of it to allow us to be the better for the […]
Read More A Shape Of Things To ComeWho are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? What happens when we die? Why does it all matter? These questions tend to be individual ones, but that’s not always been the case. For tribes and other gathering of people groups, those questions would be asked on a communal level. The answers […]
Read More For Sharing Out LoudMy firstborn has a main speaking part in a school production. She gets that from her dear paternal influence. As I observe my dear Firstborn get to grips with her role in the context of the overall plot line, I applaud her commitment. She is grappling with that capacity to remember her lines. It has […]
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