This weekend a very dear friend of mine challenged me. There are a group of churches in a geographical region who are lacking in numbers. Meanwhile other churches have more numbers and could certainly do with giving some of their members the opportunity to serve elsewhere. My genius idea was to offer the opportunity to […]
Read More Are We Set Up To Be Fruitful?It’s an interesting time of year. Today I stood with others in a church service as the efforts of the servicemen who died in the major wars of the last century were remembered. I was informed by the leader of the service, that these people made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Yesterday I was […]
Read More For Our FreedomI saw a friend today who I haven’t seen in a few years. We hugged like long lost loving brothers. He is such a beautiful man and I have nothing but good memories and good things to say about him. What makes me love him so much, among other things, is that he brings out […]
Read More The Beauty That Encourages BeautyIt has been a really tiring but interesting past few days. The highlight was yesterday attending the blessing of my niece. It was one of the rare occasions when my sister, brother and I were in the same place at the same time. I love my siblings heaps and heaps so the three of us […]
Read More Grateful For The Blessing Of Being A ChildThis post acts as a complimentary piece to one I wrote earlier stating that You Have A Voice. One of the things I enjoy about the gathering I frequent is that because there is no ‘official’ leader our times together are marked by as many members contributing as possible. This is not the norm for […]
Read More You Have A Pair Of EarsThere is a mentality that exists in parts of the church. This mentality is best summed up be the song Hold The fort. Nothing wrong with the song as such, it’s just that some folks see the song as reinforcing a siege mentality. One that says we are surrounded round about by the various forces […]
Read More When Under Siege“Sometimes we can get so hung up on the act of worship that we miss the purpose of it.” True or false? For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More Can We Miss The Point?God is good. He gives us so much. Yet of all we’ve been given the one we can so easily fail to appreciate is time. On reflection it just appears as if so much of my time has been wasted. The pointless conversations, telly programmes, whiling the time away on rubbish. In the context of […]
Read More What A Waste Of TimeMimics have an endearing stlye. Take tge comic impressionists for example. Their ability to nail down behaviours is often uncanny and the realism with which they deliver their piece can be so close to the original it is truly remarkable. I used to watch comedians doing spot on impersonations that delivered q good copy of […]
Read More Authentic WorshipNot long ago I had the pleasure of exploring the book of Acts with some good folks. It’s one thing to read something on your own, it’s a lot of fun to open things up for others to share. Now the clue is in the name of the book. Acts suggests it’s about things people […]
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