There is a lot to be said about love. There is a lot to be said and so it’s no surprise that a lot has been said. Also unsurprisingly, although a lot has been said not all that’s been said has done the topic any good. So I don’t approach this subject glibly or lightly. […]
Read More Even If … Even When …Blink and you miss it. That’s something apply to years of my life to be fair. It’s particularly applicable, however, to the month of February. For me this makes it all the more important to make a note of what life is like in the smallest month of the year. First of all, I’m really […]
Read More March Movements Without Forgetting February: A Dryden UpdateWhat makes the story exciting is how when you read it, the action, movement, drama and conversation feels alive and engaging. The problem often comes when we read things the wrong way and instead of getting energised by the life of the story, we get bogged down with the minutiae and invert elements, pervert elements […]
Read More By the Book and By the Life“The system will work. We can trust in the system.” Believe it or not, quite a number of people operate on that understanding. There are the institutions in place to ensure that things keep going as they should. The government, the schools, the police, the courts, the social services, these and other constructs are there […]
Read More Faith in the SystemIn real everyday life, the existence of right and wrong is ever before us. There’s the simple and straightforward – a young man aggressively pushes past a fragile elderly lady to get to the front of a queue to purchase something. The lady is physically hurt and there are concerns about her. The young man […]
Read More There Is Right and Wrong Isn’t There?He gets the credit from the situation because it started with Him, it ends with Him, it is done with His power, His help and His direction. Nothing works out without Him and without Him we are nothing and there is nothing. To that degree, it would be easy to question what part there is […]
Read More It Is A Co-operationHere is some of what Christ-centred, Holy Spirit filled family means to me. Some make a big deal of their ethnicity, nationality and cultural background. It is crucial to shaping and defining their identity. It is such a big deal to some that the idea of something being more important than that and framing their worldview […]
Read More A New Kind of FamilyIt occurred to me when I woke up this morning. As the first thoughts were drifting in, something triggered a memory. Lo and behold there it was, the fact that something momentous took place on Saturday 19th February 1994 in Mill Road Baptist Church in Wellingborough. At some point in the afternoon/evening, Elder Pink and […]
Read More Taking The Plunge – 25 Years OnRecently I was thinking about what it is to live the Spirit-filled life. I had attended a church service, which, in my view, had a lot of good things were performance was concerned – acoustics, stagecraft, etc, but in terms of the human environment it seemed to be a little lacking. The service was somewhat […]
Read More What Did He Show You Today?Disorientation. Wonderful word. Use it in a conversation some time. The way you use it is when someone is evidently in a state where they don’t have their bearings, not quite in a place of knowing there they are going they are in a state of disorientation. Being lost as an experience brings about a […]
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