Pain serms inevitable in life. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a scratch or a bruise on a child when they fall over, or thd hurt of loss of a loved one. It is prevalent. This week two people I care about considerably both shared something of the pain they were enduring. One spoke of the […]
Read More For The HurtingSometimes I take prayer for granted. On Friday I have a job interview. I found out recently and, unusually for me, I asked quite a number of people to pray for me. It’s unusual because I’ve tended to keep such matters close to my chest only informing a few others. This time, however, it felt […]
Read More Something Occurred To Me About PrayerAppatently since he was 15 all he ever knew was drugs and drink. He had gone through a wide range of drugs and at one time or another had kicked the habit. But the drink always remained. It was his constant. When things got wirsevand he got involved in some traumatic events, he went to […]
Read More FitA few years ago I was interested in reading a few books on leadership in church. Not primarily because I saw myself as a leader, more because I’m interested in that kind of thing for insight. In what I read there was often the verse “Without a vision, the people perish.” This was used to […]
Read More Without A Vision … But Who Fills The Vision?When the service was over, the guy next to me was interested in how I’d made notes of the sermon. He politely asked to see them. I had no problem sharing them. This was the basis for a conversation about my own journey in coming to Christ. What I enjoy about my story is that […]
Read More Out of the DarknessI was considering what the title of this post meant today. Here are some questions that cropped up. When all is said and done, how important is it for me to please the Lord? In the community context, are our lives truly faith-based with the primary desire to please the Lord? If faith is so […]
Read More Without Faith It’s Impossible To Please The LordHave I mentioned how much I love words? I love them. They are so cool. I was listening to some guy using them in a speech. After he had finished the audience gave him a hearty standing ovation. The problem was however, the words contained truths that called for action. It wasn’t just for analysis […]
Read More Nice Words … Now What?I am a home body. I love home. I love the familiarity, the warmth, the family, the routine, the safety, the sense of being enclosed from outside forces. I love it. It is something I look forward to returning to after a day’s work. My recent history has seen us move houses and locations fairly […]
Read More Sometimes You Have To Go OutsideMinistry is an interesting concept in thought and practice. The model of ‘ministry’ I saw growing up consisted of the main man having to be bi-vocational as there wasn’t enough income to make him a ‘full-time’ minister. So they had the week job, then come church day, they’d have to roll out the main event […]
Read More Family & Community: Ministry MattersWe can be so busy doing things for God that we forget our relationship with others and how simply waiting to relate and engage means more and is used in some framewotk or relational development. September was a great month in the yeae so far and miracles took place to reaffirm his undisputed position as […]
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