What kind of son am I? Not a good one, evidently. Here we have the nerve centre for the online thinking and blogging on everything to do with the life of Christopher Dryden There are blogs regaling my brother, there are blogs regaling my sister, there are blogs regaling my father, there are blogs regaling […]
Read More For My MumThe story often referred to as the Prodigal Son is a brilliant example of what the ministry of reconciliation is all about. In that story a fair bit of credit is given to the wastrel son as he comes to his senses and realises that he could get better quality food back at his home […]
Read More RestorationI’ve been banging on about faithfulness fairly often this year and I guess for good reason. In a time when everything dear to me has been put up for grabs and uncertainty is the only certain thing in my life, appreciating the quality of faithfulness and how I often fail but can succeed at it. […]
Read More Let’s Stay TogetherRecently I did the quarterly review of the kind of stuff that’s been published over at the over place. As I mentioned in that report though, whereas that blog is an open access blog with a lot of stuff easily accessible to people interested in the things I am, this here blog, the older blog, […]
Read More State of the Blog Address: Jan-Mar – DMCDCharm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. (Proverbs 31:30) This particular chapter in Proverbs is lauded for what has been known as the portrait of the virtuous woman, but really it’s about the virtuous wife and the difference is crucial. With this portrait we […]
Read More MTP31 – A Virtuous WifeI was walking home one evening recently and as I was walking home I knew I needed to go get some little groceries to tide us over as a family for a little while longer. As I made me way to the place it occurred to me that nothing beats marriage. Now this is not […]
Read More Nothing Beats MarriageTo keep you aware, some of the posts I do have been pre-scheduled sometimes days in advance. Some of them are worked on during the day in a nice neat Word file (OK OpenOffice Writer now) then put up on here. Sometimes however, it’s just good to freestyle blog, almost as if there doesn’t have […]
Read More Just Free-StylingSo it’s all well and good blogging on this, that and the other – but how am I? How’s the family? What’s going on? Good questions, good questions. Almost like Bruce’s ‘Good game, good game’. Well it’s not news now … well not to me anyway … but we have been in Little Hulton for […]
Read More Family Fortunes February UpdateI’ve been outlining where I go from here and did so on the basis that God is one who gives direction and to receive it requires humility and excitement in the knowledge that life isn’t aimless and pure drudgery. In the last entry I also shared some of my hopes about where my writing goes from here […]
Read More Where Do I Go From Here? Beyond TextYou shall not steal. (Ex. 20:15) Exploring the spiritual intent behind the Ten Words that the Lord and Redeemer gives to His people helps develop an appreciation not just for the immediate inter-personal issues, but larger issues of social justice. There is a debate raging about effective and fair economics. Some support wealth distribution whilst […]
Read More Law & Order: Spiritual Intent – Taking What’s Right
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