Humbly walking before God leaves no room for pride. I don’t presume to put my name in a blog entry because usually it’s not necessary. Indeed at the end of the day it’s not even about what I think about pride, it’s about what God thinks about it. Yet I felt it was good to […]
Read More Dryden On PrideI think often my perplexed state is due to forgetting what I was told. Here’s how it works. My beloved wife requires her morning cup of coffee. I get out of bed, grab my phone, find a tune to listen to. Whilst looking Deborah, my dear firstborn bids me a good morning and wonders if […]
Read More Wondering What To DoIt’s interesting. People love the concept of freedom, but don’t like the thought of surrender. People would welcome peace and justice, but wouldn’t necessarily be as warm towards submission. Yet Jesus who brought freedom and showed the way of peace is the chief example of someone who submitted and displayed a willingness to surrender that […]
Read More Complete SurrenderYou ever hear some statements that make you sit up and pay attention? One of those statements goes as follows: you can take the boy out of the town, but you can’t get the town out of the boy. That’s a brilliant sentiment. It speaks of how deeply embedded familiar values are in the ‘boy’ […]
Read More You Can Take The Son Out Of The Kingdom …Waiting for seasons to change is tough going. A friend and I were talking about a church structure we know. There are a number of things problematic with it. Every time I hear about it my instinct is to get aggressive and suggest that the organisation should be torn apart and started from scratch. My […]
Read More Waiting For The SeasonIt bothers me. I reckon some of the things that bother me are the spring board to do something about it. Almost like a godly pest that won’t budge until I budge to address the matter. Not that I will make all the difference, or by my efforts things will change. More about working with […]
Read More Making WavesSometimes I am having a meal. I look around the table. My wife is there and the three daughters we have are there. We are having a great time. It’s how family should be. In as much as the company is great, I sometimes wonder, what about the others. Sometimes the brethren at church will […]
Read More What About The OthersSomeone must have thought it would be a good idea for me to take a stroll along memory lane, recently. First there was the issue about remembering where I was ten years ago and the impact of a great expression of brotherly love. I recently had the great pleasure of seeing a former work colleague […]
Read More Another Difference After All These YearsTrue story. Last December – that’s right less than four months ago – I did an Emergency First Aid at Work course. This was a one day course that covered some aspects of First Aid at a basic level. Among other elements we learnt in the session was CPR and how to put someone in […]
Read More Qualities FadeSome people prefer my wife because she is straight talking. I can still recall a conversation I had with a friend where he asked me something innocuous and I just could not give him a simple straight answer. There was a story behind it. There was context to explain in it. There were concepts to […]
Read More Getting Straight To The Point
