The book of Proverbs can be viewed in a number of ways and after the initial few chapters that are based on a consistent theme, it’s as though the writer takes small themes or wise sayings and throws them out there. In many ways some chapters of Proverbs are a bit like a jazz improvisational […]
Read More MTP06 Proverbs: A Jazz AlbumFaithfulness 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 FaithfulnessReading Proverbs is a bit like reading the Bible it can be done in different ways. There are some who read it from start to finish, but in doing so you recognise it doesn’t necessarily work as a beginning-middle-end narrative book. Yet if you read the first few chapters of the book you’d notice a […]
Read More MTP04 Wisdom: The Key To Forward FocusRecently I’ve come from a church setting that placed a high value on practicality. None of the pie in the sky when we die stuff. Nothing too aesthetic, philosophical or anything that required too much thought and meditation, as it were. Just do it. There’s a lot to be said for this mentality, this go […]
Read More MTP03 In Then OutI’ve always been asking questions since I can remember. And usually the reason for the questions are for answers. (Sometimes I ask to be awkward and make other people work hard or put people off questions. Hey, it does its job.) I want to know answers so that I can know what to do with […]
Read More MTP01 From The BeginningThe year is 2007 and my good friend Ray Feeney and I are part of an exciting new wave of activity at our local church. We also work together as part of the Christian Spiritual Development team at the YMCA in Stoke-on-Trent. Ray has the heart to reach people with the good news and hopefully […]
Read More About March Through ProverbsWhere there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Proverbs 29:18 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it’s been quite a while since I’ve submitted an entry. Let me state first and foremost that it’s not due to the mad Christmas panic business. I do not celebrate the […]
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