Reluctantly Following Is Still Following
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Read More Reluctantly Following Is Still FollowingTag: Discipleship
When You Have One Of Those Days
My beloved longsuffering wife had one of those days. It’s not as though she doesn’t get those days, but even when you have them it is still a test of your emotional capacity and character. She could have told from the start of the day that it was going to be one of those days. […]
Read More When You Have One Of Those DaysIs This My Story? The Role of Violence: A Thought
One of the things I love about the teaching/training sphere is the room for reflection. In the sessions I deliver we recently went over a cycle for performance improvement. It is a familiar cycle – plan, perform, review, revise to start the whole cycle again. I reckon done properly we might progress has we paid […]
Read More Is This My Story? The Role of Violence: A ThoughtDeclaration and Demonstration – Word and Works
One of the most intriguing people I’ve come across in my time in Bletchley goes by the name Ricky Rew. I’m not intrigued by the name, fascinating though it is, I’ve been tremendously blessed by this man primarily because he captures that precious quality of being very real and human and being very much motivated […]
Read More Declaration and Demonstration – Word and WorksBeing Churched Does Not Mean You’ve Been Discipled
This came about from a conversation. where a friend who had been raised in church had finally given his life to the Lord and was proclaiming the change in public full immersion. I has known of him for well over 10 years. He remained in church circles well into his 20’s, yet for all the […]
Read More Being Churched Does Not Mean You’ve Been DiscipledThe Mind at Rest
Things happen. That is how it goes. How we respond to things can determine whether we retain sanity, or slowly see it slip away. External factors are one thing, but the state of the mind is the centre for dealing with matters. The example of my Dad taught me that even in the most chaotic […]
Read More The Mind at RestMore That What We Make Out
It saddens me that church life and being a Christian can be perceived as being preoccupied with a weekly meeting. It saddens me because I think this preoccupation misses the point by a significant margin. I sit in such weekly gatherings with decent people who are well meaning folks, polite and friendly enough, but who […]
Read More More That What We Make OutGet Up!
Something before I get going with this entry. People are in varying states of brokenness. Sometimes their confidence and self worth is so battered, it is here that the great work of healing needs to take place. I appreciate that. So what I’m writing is not about this group of people. I was reading John […]
Read More Get Up!Making Jesus In Our Own Image
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favour. Voltaire The futility of idolatry is worshipping something far less than we give it credit for. Imagine your two year old daughter getting some crayons and doing their version of Mummy and Daddy, then showing it to you. The standard reaction […]
Read More Making Jesus In Our Own ImageChild Of God, You Will Learn
I just cannot tell you how often being a parent, I feel like I’m parenting myself! I see my attitudes towards my parents in the way my children behave. Though it’s a completely different context and they are genuinely very different people to me (for starters I was never the daughter!) it is amazing how […]
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