The nature of the life we lead can often be very demanding. Responsibilities require energy to carry them out. Loving people is not done without expending something of yourself in it. That takes a toll. This is why it was a genius part of the human set-up to require a number of hours of sleep […]
Read More It’s Very Good From Time To Time To RestReading the gospel of John, I’m impressed with how Jesus relates to women. In a noted patriarchal society, His interactions with women really highlight what it is to be full of grace and truth. Conversing with the Samaritan Woman at the well is a prime example. Here is Jesus turning a request for a drink […]
Read More September Sojourn: Grace, Truth, Past and PresentI’ll never know, how much it cost To see my sin, upon the cross (Here I Am To Worship by Tim Hughes) Today I began watching a video presentation of the Gospel according to John, and marvelling at who Jesus reveals Himself to be. He is one who is full of grace and truth. He […]
Read More September Sojourn: Start With SorryJesus, Jesus, how I trust Him How I proved Him, o’er and o’er Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus Oh for grace to trust Him more (Words by Louisa M. R. Stead) Back Then I thought I knew what hatred was. My passion back then was football and as a Liverpool fan the enemy were Manchester United. […]
Read More Anger, Hatred and GraceI am a big believer in the power of grace. Someone once asked me, what was the hardest thing to believe about God. My reply was God’s grace. It’s relatively easy for me to accept God’s holiness, righteousness, creative ability, right to judge the world, His eternal nature as well as being all powerful and […]
Read More The Hardest Thing To Believe About GodThe lyrics are so delicious in this song, that I do want to savour them like a sumptuous piece of cake that comes just to peak a splendid culinary experience. I mean take a sample of what this makes such a great song in the chorus. Helpless and hopeless – lost without Your mercy But […]
Read More DMCD Songs: But For Grace (Medley) – Alvin SlaughterOne of the reasons I am grateful for God in my life, is because God teaches me to love. It is not that I was unaware of love before I consciously aware of God. It is more the case that my appreciation and awareness of love is far greater as I grow in knowing what […]
Read More How God’s Grace Helps In Relational PerspectivesKeith Giles writes over there at Subversive1. If your Christianity is relatively comfortable because it doesn’t demand that much from you other than to believe that Jesus is out for your best interests and wants you to be happy, warm and cuddly, then you might want to give Subversive a miss. Likewise if you are […]
Read More The Church That Embraces Those Society RejectsThere’s a lot to be said for living in a bubble. For the first 14 years of my life I was safely cocooned from some of the harsher realities of life by an introvert nature, parents who were not that outgoing anyway, and a lifestyle centred on church attendance which in itself warned against the […]
Read More Life Beyond The ShelterI recall an occasion where God expressed His grace to me in the most emotionally and mentally outrageous way possible. The sector that I work in is training, primarily training in the Welfare to Work area. So the role I play is being a tutor/facilitator for people who have been out of work for over […]
Read More Grace Expressions: The Class Experience
