I don’t think it’s me you’re talking about. It’s someone else. You have to know the Bible really well. You have to be one of those people who went to those places of learning and stuff. You have to be able to speak well. You have to be one of those people with the titles. […]
Read More Prayer for Change – The Sent OnesI believe in the God who sends. There is a story of a boy who was in hospital because of a back injury. He had a special visitor one evening. A famous person who used to manage the club the boy supported. This manager was revered as a hero especially by the boy, so to […]
Read More He Sends YouDisorientation. Wonderful word. Use it in a conversation some time. The way you use it is when someone is evidently in a state where they don’t have their bearings, not quite in a place of knowing there they are going they are in a state of disorientation. Being lost as an experience brings about a […]
Read More Lost and SentIt’s fascinating seeing what’s the right way to carry across whatever is needed for a particular occasion. To rescue a family and a zoo it took a large ark. To maintain a presence with a people on the move it required a tent. To establish the presence among a settled people in a promised land […]
Read More The Construct For The OccasionIt is interesting when people suggest that they are useless. OK they might not be useless, but they feel useless. They feel like they cannot make any contributions to anything. They feel they are in a dead end job, doing something largely redundant that is keeping them ticking over in their seemingly dead end life. […]
Read More Contributing to the EffortAll expenses paid. I love that aspect of work. The task needs you to spend a period of time away from home. You’ll need transport, accommodation and food covered and some might even allow something in the way of entertainment. You keep a record of what you’ve spent and as long as it’s reasonable, those […]
Read More Your Expenses Are CoveredAre you sent? There is something inside of people that gets them to wake up at a set time, get ready for a set time and arrive to their place of work at a set time to work from a set time to a set time. For some the thinking behind it – money is […]
Read More How Did You Get Here?If my life is better now than it was before, it is down to the grace of God. By that I mean, there’s a great kindness of God that I have experienced in life. A kindness that I still recognise to this has absolutely nothing to do with me in terms of anything I’ve done […]
Read More Here I Am, Send Mewho would be on your list of acknowledgements? A group of us was looking at what Paul of Tarsus wrote about in the final part of his letter to the church in Rome. The list of names there was quite something. It wasn’t even exhaustive. For all the names he wanted to be remembered and […]
Read More A List of AcknowledgementsEarly the next morning Jesus went out to an isolated place. The crowds searched everywhere for him, and when they finally found him, they begged him not to leave them. But he replied, “I must preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God in other towns, too, because that is why I was sent.” So he continued […]
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