I just could not do it any more. One of my (many) problems is that I am not really the confrontational type. I can be brusque and up front and blunt when I want to be, and I’ve been informed that I can appear somewhat intimidating at times, though I put that down to the […]
Read More Compassion or ComplacencyAbigail, is our precious 6 year-old middle daughter. As you can appreciate leaving a place where she was accustomed and had made friends and moving to a strange new place, can be discomforting, traumatic and unnerving. In a previous school she had suffered from some of the effects of the trauma of the new and […]
Read More Celebrating God’s Achievements In Your LifeOne 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 PerspectivesI was sitting down in a section of the day’s church gathering that they called the Divine Worship. As is my wont, I made notes of what the preacher was saying. As I listened and noted and also considered the rest of the session and indeed the service, there was something gnawing at me. The […]
Read More Disconnect and ReconnectKeith 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 RejectsI came across this video by the dude Alan Hirsch. By the way it’s also worth nabbing the book he wrote with his wife Untamed. I am still going through it presently and cannot recommend it highly enough. Great read – because it causes you to look to Jesus, read what He said and then […]
Read More Jesus Is Lord – What Does That Mean?Put Your Trust In No Man. Here’s your challenge. Find that phrase in scripture. Need a hand? Well here’s something close to it. Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. (Psalm 146:3) Good. So we’re sorted, right? It’s clear – do not trust people. Simple right? Errr … actually yes. Well […]
Read More Failing in Fellowship: Trust Me On This OneHeadaches. I am not a fan of headaches. If headaches were to have a party in celebration of their effectiveness to humanity over the years and invited me with the promise of free goodies including cherry bakewell tarts and ginger beer, I would still decline the invitation. (I would of course still ask for some […]
Read More Not Getting Hung Up – Working It ThroughI am glad that people have referred to this as the information age. It certainly appears as though there has been an explosion of availability of information from especially sources like the internet. At your finger-tips you can identify the capital of Bolivia (Sucre), the seventh president of India (V. V. Giri) and the great […]
Read More Knowledge and InformationI am a loner. My preference has been my own company. Even with a beautiful family of a loving wife and three really awesome daughters, I don’t always love spending every minute of my time with them. Despite being a loner, however, the love of God compels me again to understand that I am nothing […]
Read More What I Love About Church: Fellowship
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