When you are in a foreign environment, you can ask a lot of questions. In the strange, there can be issues of what is worth holding onto and what’s worth releasing. This series began with reflections of my own time when I left home for the strange world of university. It can be easy to […]
Read More The Daniel Files: 14 – What An Awesome God – A ConclusionThis is another entry in the ongoing blog conversation with the better brother of our sisters, David. Here’s the premise. Previously in the conversation: What it is with David, you see, is that he knows that not everything is straightforward. There are a number of things in life that are complex and require wholesale changes […]
Read More ADBC: 14 – Law, Love and LiverpoolI wanted to be a journalist. Not because the life of a journalist seemed particularly glamourous, it was more about how the perception of them was of those who would go searching for truth in current events and report them. For me, it was about the words and the power of the words not just […]
Read More Dryden Links: A Christian Response To The Climate CrisisSeven years ago, it was my pleasure to blog through the book of the gospel according to John a chapter a day. Having finished a series on the seven churches that John is instructed to write to in Revelation, it just felt timely to follow that up with another set of sevens that John writes […]
Read More Seven Signs: IntroductionBut the wisdom that comes from heaven is … full of mercy James 3:17 (ESV) Have you noticed that there’s a word recognised as ‘merciful’ and a word ‘merciless’? There’s no word as yet which can help us like, mercisome. That would really help because a lot of us would find that word very fitting. Yet […]
Read More A Word Of Wisdom: It’s About Being Merciful(Reflections and notes on Daniel 12. The series has covered the previous chapters in Daniel, you can click here to read those. Previously, following the introduction to the encounter with a messenger of the Lord after going through a time of fasting, Daniel is given a great unveiling of God’s plan for the future. This encounter concludes […]
Read More The Daniel Files: 13 – Faithful To The End, For Glory In The EndSometimes episodes in life take place and reveal much about ourselves and those around us. At the time we can question why those things happen. We can be upset at what they cause in terms of heartache, disappointment and pain. Yet as we wipe away the tears we can be given an insight into matters […]
Read More Purge and PurifyCharacter. So much in life thrives or dies because of character. The ability to consider things before you and respond in a manner fitting of the situation can be the difference between great good taking place or that great good being turned into something so much worse. One area in which that character is expressed […]
Read More Dryden Links: Keep Calm And Carry OnThe book of Revelation is an invitation to consider Jesus. John is invited to consider Jesus. He is given the opportunity to do so by the ultimate close encounter of the divine kind. The encounter, however, is not for him to feel goosebumps and think about what a friend he has in Jesus. The brilliant […]
Read More What The Spirit Says … 12: Epilogue – Let Them HearPeople will do well in life if they are wise. Feel free to argue against that if you want. As you do that, however, working on that assumption, this recent series on Above vs Below has contrasted wisdom from below with the wisdom that comes from God. The basis of that has been what James […]
Read More A Word Of Wisdom: It’s About Being Compliant
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