Last month I read this list of the countries defined as the top persecutors of Christians in the world. As you may know I’m all about the prayer and so I ask of you to have a look at the list and use it as a focus for prayer today. Thanks. (HT: Cranmer) For His […]
Read More Christian Persecution: Prayer PointThere is a great deal of safety buying into simple statements about complex issues. Rather than make things messy and look into how things might work in certain scenarios it can be easier and more simple to just refer to a familiar catchphrase or phrase that has been recited ad nauseaum. For example, if you […]
Read More Have You Ever Thought About What God Teaches About Sex?Some people have problems with labels. It can be overly constrictive and fail to reflect some of the factors that are dominant in that which is being described. I understand those reservations over labels and after all in most cases we are a lot more than the labels we give ourselves and some of those […]
Read More What Do You Mean ‘Christian’?Sometimes I get the feeling I really should be up on what is happening at the moment. Things like the news gives the impression that if you’re not up to date, you’re missing something critical. Thankfully chiefly through a rather chilled and relaxed father, I am discovering again and again, it still pays to take […]
Read More So What Do We Do With The Poor?Lately someone informed me that ‘no one likes to be used’. I know what he meant, but I’m not sure he got the words quite right. We use things every day. We use them without being consciously aware that we’re using them. Take the clothes you’re currently wearing (of course I assume you are wearing […]
Read More Used or AbusedI was thinking about divorce recently. Not to worry, I wasn’t thinking of it in direct relation to my current marriage to my first wife (unpick the faux pas from that!) I was thinking of it in terms of what a tragedy and a trauma it is on so many different levels. Even in the […]
Read More Compelled by Compassion, Motivated by MercySome songs send me way back. Way back to a time when I didn’t really know God, but was aware that my parents did in as much as I had to go to church with them on the weekend. Back in those ‘innocent’ days music played a big part of family life and I remember […]
Read More CD Songs: We Need To Hear From You – Andrae CrouchHonestly, I was minding my own business. Online as I am wont to do on occasion, finding out more about the new Fred Hammond album about to be launched and checking up on his web-site which was still celebrating plans for his organisation in 2011. (Not saying the site is in need of an update, […]
Read More Revisiting The Secular-Spiritual DivideI love God for putting in my life beautiful people who helped me to deal with real issues from the perspective of being nothing but real. Real with God, real with the close loved ones and real with myself. When I had marital issues, these people didn’t fudge around the issue and talk in buzzwords […]
Read More Dealing With Real IssuesI don’t have to write this, I know that. I take responsibility for what I write on here, good, bad and indifferent. The written word is not the best forum for everything and some things are best done in a more suitable environment. However, some things are good to make a record of in the […]
Read More Another Christopher Confessional
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