I can be incredibly insensitive. It might because of those times where I am deeply self-absorbed and all I am interested in is me. I can get that way and end up doing things and saying things that hurt others. As well as being self-absorbed, it can also come out of taking loved ones for […]
Read More So InsensitiveThe role of a servant can be trivialised and made to seem of little to no importance. Yet there is something about the role of serving the needs of others that has a rich reward, sometimes far greater than whatever the experience for the one who has been served. There are precious times when I […]
Read More Take Pleasure in ServingWhat is it that makes us distinctly human? For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More Just A QuestionHunger was the most basic need God addressed from the beginning. It’s incredible of all the various wants and needs developed since then and from then it remains the basic need of the human experience. Whether it’s mental stimulation or sexual gratification it can all be classed as a form of ‘hunger’ that needs feeding. […]
Read More Don’t Hurt Them, Feed ThemBaptisms. I love ’em. For the sake of the argument I am referring to believer’s baptism rather than infant baptism. True story: I have not seen an infant baptism in real life. Anyway, I love baptisms. It’s brilliant seeing people make a public declaration of allegiance with Jesus Christ. On a number of occasions those […]
Read More What Have You Got Yourself Into?I sometimes wonder why He keeps them. He’s beaten death, He’s defeated the grave, the final opposition to life and the Kingdom has been vanquished in the death, burial and resurrection. He is triumphant over all His foes. He is now the hope of the world and those who believe in Him can live eternally. […]
Read More Scarred As A Reminder That You Are VictoriousHe will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” (Luke 1:32-33) There are times where a simple statement will have me transfixed. This is one […]
Read More It Will Never End (Part One)What were we like before shame? It’s such a powerful state to find yourself in. So crippling. The combination of feelings of embarrassment, fear and withdrawal prevents any chance of full acceptance and true intimacy in a wider sense. Sometimes it’s something within that causes it – a response to an incident for example. Sometimes […]
Read More He Takes Away The ShameThe human condition is funny. A number of times you read in the Bible, an interaction take place where God, directly or through a messenger tells someone a number of points, all of which ends with a final outcome far greater than the current situation. Yet the listener always misses the point because they’re stuck […]
Read More Missing The Point – Why Sometimes We Should Just Shut UpThey were an upright family in the community. No one could dispute that this was a couple who followed the commandments and carefully considered their conduct. For all their moral purity socially they were still an oddity. They were odd because there was no offspring. At the advanced ages it was written off, because of […]
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