I fell down the stairs. I suppose it’s a good thing that the stairs were carpeted. At least I’m grateful that it wasn’t hard wood with the occasional splinter. What also worked in my favour was that the staircase wasn’t a long one, so the fall was over mercifully quickly. As I’m sure others said […]
Read More A Fall Down The Stairs And A Life LessonFor those expecting a biblical exploration of the woman who was married to an idiot and helped stop David from killing her idiot husband, before going on to marry David herself when the idiot husband keeled over anyway … this is not it. (Great story though. As in, I love reading the episode. It’s good […]
Read More What Abigail Teaches Me About Following JesusGetting Back To Squash It had been at least four years since I had last played squash. Back in 2006 I was a regular player and reached my physical peak during that time, as I did that as well as occasionally playing football with the lads at the YMCA on a weekly basis. At one […]
Read More Parables From A Physical WeekThere is a phrase that talks about ‘the elephant in the room’. This is meant to address how something glaringly obvious is sometimes overlooked or ignored despite its prominence. When delivering sessions and working on a one to one basis with individuals, sometimes this condition is more than apparent. For example someone who has a […]
Read More The Little Thing and the Obvious ThingDecember is an interesting month as far as I am concerned. Of course it’s not the best month of the year. That indisputably goes to its predecessor, November. Yet in December the following significant events took place in my life. 1999 – This was the time when I had a ground-breaking, life-changing encounter with the […]
Read More Introducing Bletchley LessonsI got another lesson in the importance of understanding through helping me daughter with her schoolwork. She’s a bright girl is me daughter (note I’m not being specific for reasons that shall emerge in the fullness of time). She’s switched on and is alert and attentive to what’s going on and can grasp concepts very […]
Read More The Importance of UnderstandingJesus lovers. That’s what we are. We love Him. We love Him because He first loved us and has now given us power to really love that we didn’t know was possible, but He’s made it possible. Through this love He allows us to see who God is, who we are and who we can […]
Read More What To Learn From The Old TestamentEarlier in this look at Matthew I had the temerity to suggest that Jesus could get angry and it would not be in our best interests to be on the receiving end when Jesus is angry. I had to read it several times to begin to consider the level of charges that Jesus makes to […]
Read More Insights From Matthew – On The Flipside Of The WoesSo I’ve taken time out in the last few blog entries to address the exit strategy that’s been recently executed seeing me leave my job, the church to which I belonged and the city to move, apparently to the middle of nowhere. Click to read Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part […]
Read More The Exit Strategy Interview – Part 6
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