There is a personal and individual way of looking at things. Am I in shape? Am I fit enough? Am I firing on all cylinders? In the team sports there is an aspect in which the player ensures first and foremost that they are in prime condition. They appreciate that the team is needed to […]
Read More Things Are Shaping Up: An ExpressionThe streets in his home city were packed. Tributes flooded in from around the world. He was such a great sportsman, his brilliance brought people to their feet in rapturous applause and adulation. He garnered a large following and people would share stories about just how amazing he was at what he did. Those who […]
Read More A Grace Insight: Look Beyond To SeeIt’s interesting listening to what different people say about their experiences of it. I remember being in a small gathering (small in the number of physical occupants, but significantly bigger in other aspects). Someone started singing the hymn, I Stand Amazed. I had heard the hymn a number of times before and was fairly well […]
Read More A Story of Grace – Where It BeginsSeeing my daughters get into their teenage years is an interesting experience. By daughters, I mainly refer to the first two, the second of whom will hit those years at her next birthday. It’s interesting watching them because they’re good girls on the whole (as a number of parents are honour bound to say). Yet […]
Read More About Freedom To ServeThere is such a thing as the cult of personality. A charismatic, engaging and persuasive individual can draw attention and maintain interest. Sometimes that interest is in a cause, sometimes that interest is in the individual. It has its charms and people will refer to experiences with the individual where they leave with a greater […]
Read More Never On My OwnFrom time to time I come across something that in the light of it, I am desirous to live in line with it. There were three episodes that made me perk up and take notice of Him again. Familiar episodes, to a degree, but always worth watching again. In the first episode, four guys ripped […]
Read More Something About Meeting Real NeedsGod is really good to me. Whatever kind of day I have, however exhilarating or deflating, I can always come home to my wife. That has not always been a pleasant thought for me, but reflecting on the completion of fifteen years of marital union, it’s one of the best thoughts that makes work worthwhile. […]
Read More What About Year Sixteen?They told us that we were celebrating the crystal anniversary. Obviously that got me asking the question: What is a crystal? Meanwhile, what makes this anniversary particularly special is that this will be the only time we celebrate the year of our wedding on the date number. We thought about what we could do to […]
Read More Year Fifteen – What’s A Crystal?“You’re just like your Dad.” Years ago I wasn’t so keen on getting that comment. That’s primarily because my Dad is a lot older than me (I know, right, father older than son, whatever next). But I say that to say that I wasn’t always up for being labelled like a man I considered to […]
Read More M.O.T.H. – You Are His Children When …Of the things that Jesus teaches, one of the hardest to swallow is what he says about enemies and retaliation. This is what Jesus says about retaliation. “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. […]
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