Key Episode Scripture: Genesis chapters 6-9 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, […]
Read More For 40 Days – Day 2: The Clean Slate Initiative: Content40 days is the best part of five weeks, just a few days short of six. Imagine what you could get done in that space of time … According to some, if I started a habit and consistently did it on a daily basis for that period of time, it should be well embedded in […]
Read More For Forty Days … PreludeJesus. Only begotten Son of God. Son of Man. Redeemer. Saviour. Healer. Teacher. Lord. As I would appreciate, reflecting on who Jesus is and what He has done, is doing, and will do is the sort of preoccupation that consumes all of life. It’s not just an exercise in reading and recalling the titles and […]
Read More JJ24 #59: Developments in the JourneyWe did not belong to this world’s decaying system, to an inharmonious state with our Creator and each other. As long as we operated in those places, it was no wonder all we ever faced was despair. God paid the price to return us to Himself. God broke down the walls that prevented the needed […]
Read More JJ24 #54: The Renewed Life – A People RestoredIt is refreshing to know what the mission is. It won’t be expressed in the same way in all locations, at all times. It will necessarily be presented differently as determined by the context. There will, however, be key similarities in the expression. It will revolve around demonstrating and declaring God through His Son, Jesus […]
Read More JJ 24 #04: This is the Message, “This is the Mission.”Aaron going with Moses was not a concession by God. I can see how it looks that way. Moses gave reasons why he couldn’t do what God called him to do, and God finally said, “OK, how about your brother, Aaron?” Yet the reasoning that God outlines shows something more than a concession. It shows […]
Read More JJ 24 #03: Not On Your Own You Won’tI enjoy my own company and don’t have a problem on my own for extended periods of time. There is, however, no better place to be than with people of God doing the work of God for the glory of God as we display the life of God in how we serve, we relate, we […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: No Better Place To BeThe message received determines the mission. If the message is about getting somewhere when you die the mission will lack power and purpose. If the message is a call to a new way of living the mission is full of the power and purpose of the one who gave it. Here, the mission is not […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: The Message and The MissionThere are few things in life more fulfilling and energising than discovering what God put you on this earth to do. Jesus lived and served to fulfil what God put Him on the earth to do. He realised He was sent, He knew the assignment and brought glory to God by fulfilling that. This is […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: DiscoverRecognise that He calls us. What He calls us for is good enough for Him and He expects it to be good enough for us. If it appears daunting, slightly intimidating and the sense that it will take much more than you already have, that’s a good sign that it will not depend on your […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: The Call Is All
