I was minding my own business. Honest. I wasn’t going to bother anyone about anything. My wife and first born daughter were not feeling well at all, I was on hand to serve them in as much as I could, as well as look after the two younger daughters. I was minding my own business […]
Read More Propulsion to Mission – There Were Ninety and NineIt has been a quite remarkable week in the life of Christopher Dryden. Faced a few unsettling home issues, but the family have remained exuberant and lively. In and among all of this I called my mentor who has been looking after me for nearly 20 years. I love my mentor. It is one thing […]
Read More Compassionately Constructive FeedbackThe mistake I made was going to the service thinking I could just slip in, sit and take in the God-stuff and slip out again without anything major happening. It’s not a mistake I make often, but it is a mistake I made that day. The preacher was passionately declaring what God had put on […]
Read More He Won’t Leave Me AloneIn the last entry I introduced this brief series with some door to door experiences I’ve had recently. As I mentioned, those experiences reminded me of my own brief foray into door to door life. Back at the end of the 20th Century I had got meself heavily involved in church work on a voluntary […]
Read More Body Building and the Door to Door Experience – Part TwoOver the last three entries, I’ve been sharing lessons I learnt whilst on a walk. (Read part one, part two and part three by clicking the links.) As I mentioned in the last entry, this was certainly no ordinary walk for me. It’s worth mentioning what a fan I am of walking. Now by walking, […]
Read More Lessons From The Walk ExtraI think some people are called to be misfits. Reading about some of the characters in the Bible and their popularity with the status quo (or lack of), and their ability to bring grief to the authorities of the day, the role of a misfit seems somewhat inevitable. It is sad, however, when people feel […]
Read More When You Know You Don’t BelongI thank God for peacemakers and I think they take on shapes, forms and professions. I was thinking about the point of doctors and nurses (representing the entirety of the medical profession). I think it’s a natural off-shoot of placing business concerns on the medical profession that the ethos of professions like being a doctor […]
Read More Blessed Are The Peacemakers: Doctors and NursesIt Started At A Wedding (Not My Own, Obviously) I don’t get invited to weddings often, and of late I’ve loathed being that much in crowds. Yet a dear friend of the family was getting married and invited my wife and I to his wedding. So we made an appearance at the ceremony and even […]
Read More Getting StuckIntroduction: Reading A Book Not long ago I mentioned how I’d virtually been on a reading fast. I had literally not read a book for months. Now for me that is a big deal. Before my love of music comes reading. Before my love of writing comes reading. Before my love of football comes reading. […]
Read More Redemption and ChoiceI love the phrase ‘I was minding my own business’. It is a particular favourite prelude to something happening to change the whole business that I was minding at the time. So. I was minding my own business when I bumped into this blog entry about The Hardest Truth by Keith Giles. Read it. It […]
Read More What Did I Do To God? Reading The Ezekiel 16 Again
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