Not that long ago I shared how I didn’t always take scriptures in their proper context and treat them properly. Lately, I was challenged about another oft repeated verse. I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. (Psalm 34:1) It won’t take too long to be in certain church […]
Read More Praise and the Defeat of DiscouragementDeath is a topic some people avoid. You know the concerns – it’s being morbid, it’s a bit depressing, there’s nothing that good to say about it and for some it triggers some pretty traumatic memories. As death is inevitable, though, I don’t mind thinking and taking about the matter from time to time. I […]
Read More So Much To Write – So Little TimeI have not looked at the midpoint of the year so intently before. Time has tended to pass by and I have only tended to reflect and consider things at the year’s end. The reason why this is different, however, is probably down to a different intentionality to the year. So from the end of […]
Read More Working It Out – Dryden July UpdateIf you browse through this blog you will not find many photos of me. That’s because I don’t like posting photos of myself. Primarily because I don’t see the need. So it takes much for me to voluntarily do so. The two human beings on the left are two people I have a great deal […]
Read More A Couple of ThingsI was having a conversation with a very good and dear friend. We were talking about necessary changes and moves in life. Among the things I love and respect about this friend is his passion and commitment to God being the gospel. He spoke some good words to me about that focus, which reminded me […]
Read More TimelyWords. They open and they close. They illuminate and they conceal. They console and they provoke. Their effect on the attitudes, behaviour and condition of people cannot be underestimated. Something happens. The words we use describe a picture and a narrative that we buy into. That narrative can do much to see how we will […]
Read More About Blaming CircumstancesIt is only when I think of the grace extended to me that I begin to recognise just how crucial grace is for life. There are times when people do some things and they are well up for the lambasting. Their behaviour was wrong, their attitude stank out the place, they should have had the […]
Read More A Place for GraceRelationships matter. People are a great way that God shows His love and goodness. They’re an insight into how creation really is a work of art as well as a work from the heart. I was having a conversation with a dear friend of mine. She shared her heart to be responsive to God in […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: God and His Works of ArtThere is this thing some of us do to protect people. We don’t tell them everything. Now what is true is this – people don’t need to know everything. They don’t. It is not for them to know each and every aspect of everything we have ever done. That, however, is not what is really […]
Read More Things In The Dark Come Out In The LightIf I were to challenge some to think of a time in scripture when people were told to bow and some resisted, one of the first incidents people would refer to, would be the occasion when Daniel’s three friends – Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah – refused to bow to the image of Nebuchadnezzar. It is […]
Read More No Compromise: You Ain’t Bowing
