I don’t think we’ll ever get to a stage where heroes are out of vogue. Overtly or subconsciously there’s an encouragement to look up to folks. Perhaps it starts as a child and your first role models are the folks you look at who define and exemplify what life is like. You see them and […]
Read More Avoiding the Santa SyndromeThe deal is not to get your attention – it’s to keep it. A lot of effort goes into getting attention. Some go out of the way to put together spectacular events with outstanding marketing to grab the attention. After all, if the marketing is done well and the event is spectacular it is bound […]
Read More Getting and Keeping AttentionIt’s the areas of finances that it’s particularly irksome. It’s the thinking that this much goes to God and the rest is for me. Finances is one area, but it is indicative of approaches to life as a whole. God will get this time of the week and the rest is for me. God will […]
Read More No Division of Life – Totally DevotedMy wife and our youngest daughter were sitting watching a movie together. Watching the two of them stare at the screen and share similar emotions was fascinating. It doesn’t take much for me to see already that all of our daughters will be heavily influenced by their mother’s example. Her commitment to working hard, to […]
Read More Heavily Influenced By …People love the thought of heaven. The concept of the state of paradise is alluring. The reality that any such states are not automatic and will not be given on a balance of good things versus bad things can make it a bit challenging. The path to be on to reach the destination is not […]
Read More On The PathCrossing a line. There’s something about crossing a line suggesting that you were one thing and now you’re something different. There’s clarity in seeing things that way. It’s defined and clear. It’s why some prefer seeing thing in black and white rather than dealing with the grey areas of life. It’s one thing to see […]
Read More Sinner Saved, Follower FilledGood people to follow are people who know how to follow. I had the great pleasure of sitting with a good friend recently. He was sharing about his work situation. He works for a major supermarket. He is not in a position of management, but his approach to work has seen him recognised by management. […]
Read More Following A FollowerThere is right. There is wrong. There is good. There is bad. Where’s the life? What makes Him so different for me was that in as much as He can answer questions about right and wrong, His existence was more an issue of answering the question where is the life? The life evidently could not […]
Read More Simply DifferentWord in for the word out. There are different ways that the word gets in you. It can be read, it can be heard, it can be seen, it be felt. Of the various things that makes its way into the system not all of it to allow us to be the better for the […]
Read More A Shape Of Things To ComeThe story often begins with the phrase, ‘Once upon a time’. That’s how it begins, but if we pay attention there was something before that point. It’s where we started the story, but that’s not always where the story starts. Sometimes in digging around, there’s a fascinating lead up to the story we know. For […]
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