The Problem With People: A Personal Perspective Getting on with people isn’t that easy. Although I was brought up in a church environment, I found it very hard to get to know people. This was made harder realising people put on masks to avoid being authentic and vulnerable. My parents moved from one end of […]
Read More Peace … with others (in the Family)I was reminded recently of this very powerful video. I would strongly recommend you watching it twice. First time for impact and the second time to digest more of how sin manifests itself. The issue with sin is that it can be very easy to get hung up with certain sings and not be aware […]
Read More Talking Point: God Consciousness & Sin AwarenessSo I’m with my sleeping 2 year old daughter. As you know the best time is when they are asleep. I could think it’s safe to nip off and get something done, but then I know my daughter and she knows when I’m not there. While she sleeps I manage to sneak in an episode […]
Read More Don’t Hold It In – Talk About ItThe mission of Christ was not to be served but to serve. That lays a template for those who follow Him to likewise have the heart of a servant – not a volunteer. The servant is at the beck and call of those who she serves. That is why we call Jesus, Lord. He calls […]
Read More Called To Be ServedI was just wondering again … Why are a lot of churches inclined to stick to ‘their own kind’ and not be multi-racial, multi-generational, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual expression of the life-changing power of Jesus that celebrates the diversity of humanity in the oneness we share in Christ? Just wondering. Carry on. For His Name’s Sake […]
Read More Just Wondering … About The ChurchIt is remarkably humbling and liberating to engage in a conversation with the saints in Christ who have absolutely no idea what the answer is, and are humble enough to express that. It is sad to say that for some because they follow the One True God they somehow think they have all the One […]
Read More I’m Sorry I Don’t Have The AnswerHere’s a tricky thing about following Jesus. It can be an intensely personal and individual journey. To a large degree you’re responsible for your own development and commitment to Christ. When we are judged we won’t be able to blame church leaders and all that kinda jazz. We will be judged on individual grounds. Yet […]
Read More Be Careful Lest They FallI haven’t blogged in a while. The posts that have been on here recently have been ones I’d scheduled a while ago. The reason for that is mainly because I’m not well. If it were a flu-type thing, that would be easy to ascertain and deal with. Yet the ailment is not a physical one, […]
Read More Doing My Head InSomething has been bothering me. Someone I knwo who to all intents and purposes portrays commendable qualities and attributes that any Christian would seek to imitate confessed that they had found abundant life elusive. True happiness had been missing for decades and they had rather been more acquainted with grief, barrenness, loneliness and isolation. Shouldn’t […]
Read More Shouldn’t We Care?There I was minding my own business when I came across this article on the welfare system across the pond. I would not class myself as an anarchist, I would not even say I sign up to the ethos of what Jesus Radical is all about. The reason I read it is because of entries […]
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