When I was a lot younger, I used to hear a lot that to be a hypocrite was one of the worst things ever to be called. Let’s be clear. By hypocrite the thinking is usually of someone who presents one face and then in another setting presents a different face, maybe the opposite. So […]
Read More HypocriteStability. People like stability. It’s not that we don’t like change – honest. Some change we welcome with open arms. Yet as long as there’s stability it makes things alright. What is offered with Jesus ruling from the throne forever is not just stability – it is something that expresses itself in full righteousness. It […]
Read More It Will Never End (Part Two)He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” (Luke 1:32-33) There are times where a simple statement will have me transfixed. This is one […]
Read More It Will Never End (Part One)What were we like before shame? It’s such a powerful state to find yourself in. So crippling. The combination of feelings of embarrassment, fear and withdrawal prevents any chance of full acceptance and true intimacy in a wider sense. Sometimes it’s something within that causes it – a response to an incident for example. Sometimes […]
Read More He Takes Away The ShameThere is a need to focus on the need for Jesus. I recognise how easy it is to get distracted. The problem of being distracted is that even if you’re doing noble things, they miss the point. There are a lot of noble things going in the world that miss the point. That point chiefly […]
Read More What Matters After The DistractionsI had a bad day. When I get bad days I have different responses. Sometimes I become morose and there’s little that can drag me out of a low. Sometimes I distract myself with loads of other work. There are times I even talk it through with Jesus. As we sit and talk it through […]
Read More Questions and StuffIt doesn’t require someone whose paranoid or an alarmist to be aware of the fact that the world we live in is not always safe. Indeed news bulletins often point out just how unsafe we are whether by reports of burglaries or kidnappings, the viewer is brought into a keen understanding that anything can happen. […]
Read More This Is A Safe PlaceIt’s been a while since I posted a really personal blog piece, which is unusual for a blog that did start out by being personal. Nevertheless here it be a personal post. Over the last two weeks my wife has been out of the home. Her three daughters certainly noticed her absence. The thing about […]
Read More When Someone Is MissingThe single human voice is a powerful instrument. Hearing a gifted voice convey a message on it’s own can be quite the moving experience and you can truly appreciate tone and feeling by it. Yet there can be no doubt that all you have to do is add another voice that accompanies that one, taking […]
Read More AccompanimentSomething I enjoy about studying in a group is the opportunity to get different perspectives and experiences. When we’re sharing in that kind of environment and people open up their lives and we get to see beyond the dress up and the show, it’s really illuminating. I come out of sessions like that motivated to […]
Read More The Price You Pay: Relationships
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