You ask God for something and He gives it to you, but you don’t recognise it because it didn’t come as you were expecting it and you often only notice in retrospect. So get this. It’s a Wednesday evening, I’m on my way home from work. On the train I’m so mentally exhausted that I […]
Read More Plugging Into Corporate PrayerJust want you to hear the guy out, consider what he says and then wonder to yourself, is this guy on the button? For His Name’s Sake Shalom dmcd
Read More Division Inevitable With Jesus?As you know, you don’t have to be a pregnant woman to have cravings. It can be a day when you’ve been busy for a period of time and there is a lingering desire in the taste-buds for something familiar, or something particular whether familiar or not. You might remember back in the day Sprite […]
Read More Craving For Christian CommunityI know this is usually put at the end of a church gathering, but listening to this works for me just as well at the beginning of the day … indeed any time of the day. I love the reminder it gives me of what resides in me and how I share that with others […]
Read More DMCD Songs: May The Peace Of God – Stuart TownendAnd Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. (Matthew 9:15) He is a love story. There’s the salvation bit. There’s the family reconciliation bit. All crucial parts to […]
Read More Jesus Is … The BridegroomRecently I celebrated five years of blogging. In as much as I enjoy reading and writing, it takes certain things to get me to review what I’ve written. When it comes to the topic of freedom I was surprised to see how much I had written on the topic of freedom. Not too long from […]
Read More Are You Free?One of the people I’ve come across on this Christian journey gave me the impression that his early spiritual development was on his own – it was just him and the Holy Spirit – not other influences, just him, the Spirit and his Bible. That came across to me at the time as rather intimidating. […]
Read More Another Brief Word On Church And MeDue to the nature of this blog, it’s not always clear what actually is going on in my life at any one time. I’ll have a thought about something, I’ll create a series about something else and only occasionally will the actual substance of significant aspects of my life emerge. That’s not a bad thing […]
Read More Going To Church AgainAnd he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. (Colossians 1:18) Israel as God’s chosen people rejected God as their head when they petitioned for a king to be like their neighbours. Unsurprisingly, since Jesus ascended, there appears […]
Read More Jesus Is … Head of the ChurchWhat follows are some thoughts motivated by further contemplation of this morning’s reference to Jesus being the Temple. ~(Thanks also to Alan for his insightful blog on the issue from another perspective.) I don’t think the irony could be anymore apt than seeing the real temple of the Living God singing a song about devoting […]
Read More Jesus And The Building Project
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