The rows all point to the platform. On the platform is something they call a pulpit. The thinking is that everything that happens in the gathering will be geared towards the main event of someone standing at that pulpit and speaking from it to the others who will look on more or less quietly any […]
Read More Truth and the Christian Way: GatheringExploring this particular habit is very close to my heart for a lot of reasons. The first thing to address, though, is about the holy habits themselves. There are some things we develop and cultivate rather simply and easily. There are parallels between a number of natural habits and holy habits. For example it doesn’t […]
Read More Holy Habits: WordUntil I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. (1 Timothy 4:13) Not everyone can read out loud with confidence. Whether it’s because English is not their first language, or they were discouraged from reading out when they were younger, there’s something unusual about some opening the scripture and […]
Read More For Reading Out LoudEuphoric. It’s quite the expression to feel euphoric. It’s not one that I experience on a daily basis, but it is one I treasure when I come across it. Lately I came across it whilst reading the end of Genesis 1. It was the accumulation of the days of creation and God’s admiring of His […]
Read More Solid September Signing: Celebrating Almighty God Throughout His WordI appreciate that reading the Bible is not about slavishly following everything said there. I know the church I read about in the New Testament is not to be seen as perfection. If it was, there would be no need for the apostolic letters. It still baffles me, however, that clear indications of how church […]
Read More Reading And Seeing The Gaps“Do you take the Bible literally?” Not an unusual question I get to when people get through the “Are you a Christian?” “Do you go to church regularly?” “What church do you go to?” “I only go at Christmas time.” and “Do you read the Bible then?” spiel. Of course not everyone is that way […]
Read More Taking The Bible LiterallyCan you imagine watching a play like MacBeth and getting the wrong message. By the wrong message, I mean watching the play titled MacBeth which features a central character called MacBeth with the narrative about the rise and fall of MacBeth and leaving it thinking actually the play was about King Duncan. Can you imagine […]
Read More What Is The Story?I am glad that people have referred to this as the information age. It certainly appears as though there has been an explosion of availability of information from especially sources like the internet. At your finger-tips you can identify the capital of Bolivia (Sucre), the seventh president of India (V. V. Giri) and the great […]
Read More Knowledge and InformationOn the surface it certainly is a compelling reason to take on board a church as being serious about what it’s about. We are a Bible believing church. Well that’s it then. Case closed. No arguments from anyone. Oh but wait. What on earth is meant by that? It’s in the Bible – so what? […]
Read More My Problem With Bible Believing ChurchesDMCD and The Reading Plan There is this really healthy spiritual exercise that brothers and sisters in Christ apply through the calendar year and that is to go through the Bible in a year. The scriptures are arranged in such a way so as to ensure all 66 books are covered in the 365 days. […]
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