There are always good reasons to give up – life circumstances provide plenty of justifications for seeking an easier life. Yet the easier life isn’t that much easier and in fact quite harder actually. So when we get to grips with reality – there is a God who loves us and has sent His Son […]
Read More I Feel Like Going On – Marvin WinansI’m a bit surprised that I haven’t talked about sex that often on this blog. No don’t worry you haven’t got on the wrong site, if you’ve wandered to this place this isn’t one of those that is sponsored by or supports the adult entertainment industry. Isn’t that a phrase which has been taken for […]
Read More Is This What I Believe? SexI don’t know if I’m the only person who sometimes scratches his head when he reads Proverbs. Especially when it gets to chapter 7. Here’s why I scratch my head. I read the story of Solomon. Son of David to Bathsheba. Bath, as she was obviously known for short, and evidently not one to be […]
Read More MTP07 Seducing the Wise ManFaithfulness is not a hugely valued commodity especially when opposed to the value of choice. As choice is so vaunted and regarded as essential to quality life not much is said about staying with the made choice. I reckon this is down to two key factors. First not making the most of that which we […]
Read More MTP05 Wisdom and FaithfulnessKnowing God is not always straightforward and even by merely ‘taking Him at His Word’ we can end up with vastly different conclusions. For example there are those among the Christian family who have a hard time reconciling the God of the Old Testament with the God of the New Testament as though there is […]
Read More Is This What I Believe? God of Love and JudgementSo I’ve taken time out in the last few blog entries to address the exit strategy that’s been recently executed seeing me leave my job, the church to which I belonged and the city to move, apparently to the middle of nowhere. Click to read Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part […]
Read More The Exit Strategy Interview – Part 6I’m not sure if I properly addressed all in one go the developments from being a resident of Stoke-on-Trent working for the North Staffs YMCA and being a member of the Stoke-on-Trent Church of God (Seventh Day) to the current position. I know I’ve blogged on it intermittently, but I thought it might work if […]
Read More The Exit Strategy Interview – Part 1“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many […]
Read More Is This What I Believe? Few Are ChosenApparently according to the calendars of some this is a day to celebrate romantic love and express that with the appropriate sentiments shared with that special significant other. I never bought into the day myself for two reasons. I come from a background that says basically if it’s not in the Word, then there’s no […]
Read More Love Lifted MeI’ve been outlining where I go from here and did so on the basis that God is one who gives direction and to receive it requires humility and excitement in the knowledge that life isn’t aimless and pure drudgery. In the last entry I also shared some of my hopes about where my writing goes from here […]
Read More Where Do I Go From Here? Beyond Text
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