What’s in a name? Yeah, I know. Some will point out the kind of names parents are giving their children these days. Bizarre, exotic, wild, hilarious all given to babies that barely have an idea of what it’s all about. Having said that, it wasn’t as though back in the day everyone paid careful attention […]
Read More The Greatest Commandment (4): Love God … Cherish His NameThere can be only one. Wandering eyes. It doesn’t take much anymore and the reality remains to a degree we are all susceptible. It doesn’t have to be about people, it’s all about loyalty in the things that matter. You can be on a good thing and all of a sudden a suggestion or two […]
Read More The Greatest Commandment (3): Love God … You Will Have No Other GodsYou ever got the impression that someone was just going through the motions. Like they weren’t even really feeling it? I have. I watch some performances in films and some of them look to be really lethargic. I have seen some games of football where one or two of the players have put in a […]
Read More The Greatest Commandment (2): Love God … With All Your Heart, Soul, And MindI remember growing up having to memorise the Ten Commandments. It appeared a bit odd then, to hear Jesus expressing the two greatest commandments apparently not being one of the Ten. It appeared odd until someone showed me that the whole of the Law rested on these two commandments. All the Law. Indeed the Ten […]
Read More The Greatest Commandment (1): You Will Love The Lord Your God …Peter believed that love was essential to knowing Jesus. It was the crowning quality essential in knowing Jesus. Like all the others, if you didn’t have this quality and increased in it then you would be unproductive and unfruitful in the only pursuit in life worth having. A good friend and I were considering the […]
Read More Add To Your Brotherly Love – LoveYou know brotherly love. Honestly. You know it. Yet there is more to know about it. You don’t even need to have a brother to know brotherly love. You don’t even need to be male to know brotherly love. When Peter encourages his readers to add brotherly love, he could have been referring to the […]
Read More Add To Your Godliness – Brotherly LoveAhhhhhhh knowledge. Good things said about it. Bad things said about it. It’s worth knowing what kind of knowledge Peter is talking about here. Thankfully, Peter starts and finishes this letter with exactly the kind of knowledge he’s talking about. I loved the accumulation of information back in the day. In fact to be fair, […]
Read More Add To Your Goodness – KnowledgeMy guy Stevie Wonder wrote a song about his daughter. He put into song the delight he took in this newborn baby and her growing impact on his life. I enjoyed the song anyway, but when my firstborn made her appearance on the planet, the song took on a whole new level of resonance. It’s […]
Read More It’s LovelyIt’s worth mentioning that this blog isn’t always that concerned to keep up with current affairs. If there are special occasions and events of one sort or another, I don’t feel obliged to mention them. So it is just one of those things that this entry so happens to happen on the same day as […]
Read More It’s All In Your HeadWhat’s with this On The Run series of posts, Christopher? Are you dodging someone? Have the authorities caught up with you? There was a bit of what the Apostle Paul said to his son in the faith, Timothy, that made me stop and pay close attention to it and myself. There is something about this […]
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