I love excuses. In the sense of the effort that we obviously put to divert the true source of responsibility to something completely inappropriate. When I say I love it, that’s because of the opportunity I get to respond to those excuses, or the chance to see how others will accept the pathetic excuses I […]
Read More 117 Hilarious & Sad Excuses: No. 47 – Nobody’s PerfectThen Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last. (Luke 23:46) Jesus says quite a bit on the cross. It’s not a sermon altogether, but when you read Luke, Matthew and John gives a lot of Jesus in the […]
Read More The Death of Christopher Dryden: Crosswords at the CrossroadsYou ever get yourself into that kind of tight spot and wonder what have you done? Sometimes in those tight situations that question isn’t so much why you did what you did. Sometimes what you did was right, but tight spots like hot-spots are not good spots. Yet it’s in those spots that we can […]
Read More HATAR – What Have I DoneWe are continuing the series on me growing journey of understanding what family is. As a recap there was the early days back in Wellingborough. I saw a wider world of family church wise when I went to Peckham during the university days. There was the dramatic shift in fortunes from the comforts of church […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Broader HorizonsHe who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. (Psalm 91:1) Recently I’ve touched on some concerns regarding the practice of covering that is used authoritatively especially in hierarchical models of church. Read it for yourself to catch up. Regarding the concerns, the other point that […]
Read More Run For Cover – Part TwoI would not be writing this blog if I had gone a different way not too long ago. I could have been what I call a corporate Christian. Now by corporate, I’m obviously not talking about into the gathering as a whole. What I mean by corporate Christian is viewing the whole thing as a […]
Read More Mistakes I Have MadeJesus told his disciples that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness (HATAR) shall be satisfied and I recognise that that sense of satisfaction that I need in life comes back to the issue of where I’m hungering and thirsting after. My idea of hungering and thirsting after righteousness is about pursing Jesus and like […]
Read More HATAR – Fast Reflections – Giving It All UpThis is Chris Evans. You may know of him. You may not know of him. His profession is known as a radio disc jockey. That can also be referred to as a radio broadcaster, or a presenter for the audio medium known as radio. I was interested in radio when I was a younger lad, […]
Read More About That Hero …It should be fairly clear by now that moving from Stoke-on-Trent to Little Hulton at the end of 2009 physically (although there’s an argument that I’d left before then) was very traumatic. The difficulty of the transitional stage of working in Stoke-on-Trent whilst living in Little Hulton in January was a mental strain more than […]
Read More Never Going Back?Getting the balance right is something to be very conscious about. There are many demands on your time, some put on you by others, some put on by yourself, some that appear urgent and important and some that appear not to be the case but actually they are. I recognise that life being lead by […]
Read More The Ongoing Quest Of Getting The Balance Right
