Here’s the premise of the conversation. Previously in the conversation: C’est magnifique. I don’t bust out the French that often chiefly because it’s not a language I’ve needed in my everyday life over the past 28 years since completing two years of learning it at school in the thought that it would give me confidence in […]
Read More ADBC: 35 – How The Prime Of Life won’t Be the Death Of MeYou’re welcome to it, if you choose it. The teacher was outlining to his hearers the contrast to what the adversary stood for and what he stood for. The adversary only came to steal, kill and destroy. He had come that people could have abundant life. Two options available for people to take and every […]
Read More Accepting The Invitation To LiveIt was a given in the household when we were growing up. The children would go to their bed to sleep first. That was not always because the adults wanted to stay downstairs late. It was just the way the order of the home went. So when it was time to bed, we would go […]
Read More Goodnight Dad, Goodnight MumOf course it’s odd without my Dad. There was a thought, that I might have shared before, however, and that thought is this My Dad was dead before I was born. No, I’m not saying that my Dad was a shell of a man who lived like he was a zombie. I am referring to […]
Read More Death, Life and HopeThis is all there is and there’s nothing else to it. Sometimes explicitly. sometimes subtle, all there is to life is this. This being what your sense can pick up. There was a conversation about the after life and one of the queries that was raised was what happens about justice if this is all […]
Read More If This Is It …Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last. (Luke 23:46) They crucified Him. The run up to it was so unfair. Pilate couldn’t find anything wrong with Him. Herod didn’t see anything worthy of making a bid to charge him. It came down to a baying […]
Read More Dead and BuriedAs we have it at the moment, if you think about it, however glorious and illustrious it might appear, death wins. You know that. They are born and as soon as that happens death is inevitable. Whatever purpose you look for while you’re alive does nothing to prevent the inevitable. You know that. So on […]
Read More When Life Defeats DeathAnd the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” (Genesis 2:16-17 NIV) The source of life and fruitfulness is God. Choosing […]
Read More Bad Fruit and the Self Life (The Fruit Series 12)And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” (Genesis 2:16-17 NIV) Not all fruit is good fruit. A fruitless situation […]
Read More Introduction to Bad Fruit (The Fruit Series 11)When the people of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, all their valiant men marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them. Then they took their bones and […]
Read More Sam’s 1st Epic 31 – The King is Dead
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