Prayer Points (WE-110129)

As another week reaches it’s end, thanking God for the responses to last week’s Prayer-Points, please consider these points for your prayerful attention. Purity of Heart Recently, I recalled this, Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may […]

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DMCD Songs: Lord I Thirst For You

Over the month I’ve had the pleasure of posting songs from the Worship in the House album which this year celebrates its 15th year anniversary.  Keith Staten is a singer I admire a great deal love his range and emotion he evokes in his singing.  That helps a great deal whether singing an upbeat song […]

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Why Worry – Part Two

Last time out I was sharing about how my Dad was encouraging me again to not worry. I also spent some time looking at the debilitating effects of worry both in the physical and worse in the spiritual. So how to overcome worrying? Well first thing is to address the fact that the opposite to […]

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Why Worry – Part One

The other day I had a phone conversation with my Dad. Usually telephone conversations with my Dad are known for their brevity. My Dad isn’t given to much speech, and to be honest, hard though it may be to believe, neither am I. If I don’t have to talk, I won’t. I enjoy the quiet […]

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When Systems Stifle

It’s All About The Systems On this trip that is about learning about Christian community something startling strikes me – just how much we rely on systems. Take the hierarchical approach to leadership. Most believers I know would be aghast at the thought of having a church without an ordained ‘leader’ (whether that’s a pastor […]

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Kingdom Living – An Example

I hope to start the first in the series of brief insights into the gospels in February with a look at the gospel according to Matthew. As I was thinking about that some bloggers I read were referring to different parts of the book and stirred in me a reminder of how this Kingdom that […]

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Prayer Points (WE-110122)

It is coming to the close of another week and thanks for your prayers concerning last week’s points.  Here are the ones for this week – keep on praying. Danny Flynn It is a year since I left my job as Christian Spiritual Development Worker (CSDW) at the North Staffordshire YMCA based in Stoke-on-Trent.  I […]

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