I just spent the evening in the company of my wife whilst watching Japan take on and comfortably beat Denmark in their last group match in World Cup 2010. I love watching football with Authrine anyway, but there was something about the match today which took her to a whole other level of engagement with […]
Read More It’s Good To Talk – It’s Good To Tweet – It’s Good To TextSongs reflecting the good and bad times and the call to still praise and worship the Creator are tough songs to write, but relieving songs to sing. They’re tough to write, because the cost of going through the experiences you write about are necessarily tough. Going through them, though, and seeing God’s faithfulness even in […]
Read More Blessed Be Your Name – LCGC Featuring Matt RedmanQuick one at the moment – as with a lot of things today I’ve got lots to say, but haven’t got the time to say it at the moment. One of the things I was thinking about today was how does the Kingdom impact daily life. With the people that I serve it’s evident that […]
Read More HATAR – Kingdom ImpactThis blog entry was written yesterday. A fair bit of preparation has gone into today’s proceedings, there’s the highlighting of the previous blog I wrote on this very subject. Earlier on today I posted the first musical tribute about today based on my heart’s desire and then around lunchtime I also put together another musical […]
Read More Thank God For MarriageAnd to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles […]
Read More Sounds A Bit Too Much Like Hard Work To MeThe sentiments of this song strike the chord of the message that I’d love people to get from me in my engagement with them, that in the light of the love of Jesus that has made my life what it is that it’s worth getting to know Him for yourself to discover that really you […]
Read More Can’t Live Without Jesus – Jon GibsonDon’t worry if you’re not into football. this is not a big footbally blog. It’s not going to be a blog entry of any significant size anyway, because I’ve got some ‘family ministry’ to do. I’ve been banging on a bit about family life and one element that has been interesting in my family fortunes […]
Read More The Role Of Football In The Dryden FamilyYeah there’s the Jesus stuff which is very important to me. There is the church stuff, which is also very important. There are the ideas that knock around my head on other issues to talk about (for example I’m thinking about a series on All My Working Life). Yet from time to time it’s just […]
Read More Just Free-BloggingFinally we complete the mini-series that I’ve been writing about the family and my developing understanding of the this crucial foundation of society. It would be useful to summarise how I came to this point with a couple of dating scenarios. In January 1990 I was a 12 year old boy whose concept of family […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Where I Am NowI may have mentioned previously that part of May day’s explosion of getting paid included the purchase of Marvin Winans’ album. I still recommend it. This song is one of those reasons why I recommend it. It’s a very mature song evidently from a man who has been through stuff and knows what he’s talking […]
Read More I’m Over It Now – Marvin Winans
