A Simple Response To Those Who Mock Christianity
Jesus loves you. For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
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A Delight: His Word Hid In My Heart
I am blessed with amazing friends who elicit the most amazing things from me because of them. One of the most touching things that my wife shares with me, is that she has never told anyone else she loves them as much as she tells me. What is all the more profound is how often […]
Read More A Delight: His Word Hid In My HeartGatekeepers: Overcoming Potential Challenges In Church Development
The importance of order cannot be underestimated. Disorder and chaos are not the best environments in which we thrive. Likewise there is nothing wrong with routine in and of itself. Indeed some find great safety in the familiar. Risk.is reduced, the likelihood of things going out of control are minimised. This is comforting and a […]
Read More Gatekeepers: Overcoming Potential Challenges In Church DevelopmentGrowing Pains 3: Express Love Beyond Yourself
The thing about growing pains is that they help you to grow. You flourish. You blossom. You exude grace and humility that grabs the attention. All that happens, whilst still going through the discomfort that comes in leaving the comfort of what you have known to access what there is to know. No better place […]
Read More Growing Pains 3: Express Love Beyond YourselfGrowing Pains 2: Called To Be Holy
There is a saying that suggests sometimes it’s good to be bad. It’s not just a saying whipped out by the villain in a cartoon. There is an element in people that allows for a little bad from time to time. Perhaps the little white lie, maybe not putting in as much effort at work. […]
Read More Growing Pains 2: Called To Be HolyGaining Great Wisdom From Flawed Father Figures
Recently a few of us were reflecting on God as Father. It was stunning to read Genesis 1 and Luke 3 noticing that in as much as to the rest of creation God is Creator, when God made Adam His relationship to Him was that of a loving Father. It is unfortunate that there are […]
Read More Gaining Great Wisdom From Flawed Father FiguresSay What You See; Transparent Fellowship
Notes from a conversation with a very important friend of mine inspire this blog entry. (Thank you, Lorna.) You ever been shifty? By shifty I mean behaviour suggesting underhand activities and motives. I have been shifty on a number of occasions. I was watching an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Nichols is chasing […]
Read More Say What You See; Transparent FellowshipThe Day I Married My Wife
It was Sunday 15th June 2003. I was dressed for the part. I made it to the church on time. I was nervous. It was the first time I had been the groom at the wedding. I didn’t know what to do even though we had rehearsed. My best man and I had a brilliant […]
Read More The Day I Married My WifeSay What You See: Faithful Fatherhood
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1 It’s not as though there is no good pattern for fatherhood. Check the […]
Read More Say What You See: Faithful FatherhoodSay What You See: Generous Hospitality
She said to her husband, “I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. Let’s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.” […]
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