It’s fair to say what is often referred to as the Sermon on the Mount has not always captured my imagination. Indeed I got a bit bored with people taking snippets from it and having them as poster campaigns for their own agendas. Like the ‘Judge not lest ye be judged’ mob that defiantly went […]
Read More What Is It About The Teaching On The Mount?The cycle is as tragic as it is inevitable. They say it’s the thing to be wearing, the game to be playing, the phone to be using, the car to be driving, the food to be eating, etc. The pressure is on to buy it, watch it, wear it, eat it and no sooner have […]
Read More Break Free … From Without: MaterialismComing across songs that don’t have that great a public exposure but have a solid lyrical message with a brilliant musical hook is a great joy to me. Now this is all about connections. You’re aware that I’m a Jon Gibson fan. Yeah, you know that. I love the man’s music big time and I […]
Read More Peace and LoveI was recently reflecting on just how God is in everything. Not in the deist sense of things where He is the trees, the river, the birds, etc. I mean it in the sense that if I have the eyes to see and the ears to hear I’ll experience Him in every situation I face […]
Read More He Gets AboutYou remember me talking about needing nothing but a relationship with Jesus even at the detriment of my creature comforts like dear relationships and connection to me laptop. Well would you believe that today me personal laptop is currently undergoing some technical difficulties which means it is not available to me at this moment. Inconvenient? […]
Read More Be Careful What You Blog ForAh this is more like it. It’s a Tuesday. It’s late night. I’ve ministered to the wife’s needs and heard her day. I’ve had the day at work and the evening at the session and I’m ready to write. We learnt a fair amount of stuff today in the session, legislation, communication and the importance […]
Read More Laying The Ground RulesIf you’ve been doing something the same way for a number of days, weeks, months and years it can become an engrained part of life. Some of these grains inhibit growth and freedom and are so deep that it takes something shocking, something that rocks the foundations of the grain for us to have a […]
Read More Dawning Realisation: What's Going On?Well here we go, This is a bit unusual, but here I am blogging at this time of day and it made a whole heap of sense to do it. I’ve noted on maybe a few occasions that my tendency is to be a bit of a loner. It is nothing to me to be […]
Read More Getting By With A Little Help …When there are complaints on things like not having the latest brand named goods or not having access to the best things in life it seems to miss the whole point of community. When someone is complaining about the name of the shoes, where their sister in another country has no shoes, something’s wrong. When […]
Read More Break Free TogetherDo you ever ask yourself what’s really important? Do you ever answer yourself by a changed life – not drastically, but noticeably? Do you catch up on yourself when you said you would do something, or be somewhere and then find that you’ve wandered far from that goal, despite still having a desire to achieve […]
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