Here is some of what Christ-centred, Holy Spirit filled family means to me. Some make a big deal of their ethnicity, nationality and cultural background. It is crucial to shaping and defining their identity. It is such a big deal to some that the idea of something being more important than that and framing their worldview […]
Read More A New Kind of FamilyIt occurred to me when I woke up this morning. As the first thoughts were drifting in, something triggered a memory. Lo and behold there it was, the fact that something momentous took place on Saturday 19th February 1994 in Mill Road Baptist Church in Wellingborough. At some point in the afternoon/evening, Elder Pink and […]
Read More Taking The Plunge – 25 Years OnRecently I was thinking about what it is to live the Spirit-filled life. I had attended a church service, which, in my view, had a lot of good things were performance was concerned – acoustics, stagecraft, etc, but in terms of the human environment it seemed to be a little lacking. The service was somewhat […]
Read More What Did He Show You Today?Disorientation. Wonderful word. Use it in a conversation some time. The way you use it is when someone is evidently in a state where they don’t have their bearings, not quite in a place of knowing there they are going they are in a state of disorientation. Being lost as an experience brings about a […]
Read More Lost and SentHe was ill and this time it looked like the end. His four children – all adults with children of their own rushed to be at his bedside as he welcomed in the last days. He wanted his children to be near him. He wanted them to see what it was like to sleep well. […]
Read More When He’s GoneWhatever the tradition, there is something really significant about the importance of remembering. The memory is bombarded with every new experience and event in life. Certain patterns can get the brain slowly being shaped by the immediate to such a degree that it can lose touch with key points that establishes the identity. That can […]
Read More Remember: The Past for the PresentIt’s not just that you need the space. It’s that the space has to be cultivated to be fit for purpose. For some that space is physical. They need a certain size of area to be just right with the right dimensions in which the work can begin. It could be the size of paper […]
Read More Is There Room to Flourish?It was one thing to be taught and be able to pass on the words of wisdom. It was another thing to be with Him. They saw many things about Him. Most remarkable was how He sought to serve others and didn’t look to laud it over others even though His identity would have led […]
Read More The LovedIt was the way he mentioned longing that really resonated with me. There’s been so much talk about feeling at home with your own culture. People wanting to return to where they’re comfortable and that comfort is defined by certain hallmarks of the background. Style of music, clothes, expression, etc. So much in the way […]
Read More LongingIt’s fascinating seeing what’s the right way to carry across whatever is needed for a particular occasion. To rescue a family and a zoo it took a large ark. To maintain a presence with a people on the move it required a tent. To establish the presence among a settled people in a promised land […]
Read More The Construct For The Occasion
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