Fishermen. That’s what they were, that was their trade, it was their livelihood, it was their stock in life ad perhaps that’s what they would turn out to be and see their sons also follow in the family business. They were caught up with the exciting prophetic ministry of this wild guy called John. That […]
Read More A Peter Profile: 03 – From Calling to CallingIf you open box A you win the special star prize. If you open box B you get the booby prize. Booby prize. Back in the day I took that phrase for what it meant – this is the worst ‘prize’ you could attain. You didn’t want the booby prize. It was so bad that […]
Read More What Reward?Something that helps in times of trouble, is to know why you’re going through. You’re not going through to survive. What is survival anyway? There are greater things at stake than survival. You’re not going through to just learn some lessons and whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, useful though that may be. […]
Read More All For The PrizeThe storms in life can truly be raging. It can get to the point where you don’t know if you’re going to make it. You can be hanging on for dear life to anything that will hold you as you’re buffeting one way and the other. Bills blowing on the one side. Relationship challenges whipping […]
Read More Calming the Storm – To Get AcrossThey do it for the sake of doing it. It’s what they’ve always done and so when this happens, it’s what they do. Yet there was always that word – why. Why are we doing this? Failure to satisfactorily answer that question often led to anger at the question. How dare the regular activities that […]
Read More Keep On Asking: What’s The Point?There are few things worse in life than feeling like a spare part. Spare parts have their place of course, because if something goes wrong with one of the main parts then you’ll need a … spare part. Until then, however, to all intents and purposes your role as a spare part is to lie […]
Read More Do We Need Everyone In The Team?Yeah, there’s something fulfilling about being acknowledged for any good you do. It’s why I’m particularly keen to say thanks when I am the beneficiary of good. Doing good, however, is something to truly enjoy knowing that God sees you. You’re doing it primarily for Him and to Him to say how much you appreciate […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Doing Good For God’s Sake“I just want you to be happy.” This is a common sentiment and whenever I hear it, I can often hear the heart behind it. Where I often hear it is from a parent to a child. Not a young child, either. At that stage where the son or the daughter is ready to take […]
Read More Is That The Order? Happiness First?Bond would be interrupted from a romantic interlude because of a message that it was important to see M. At the meeting point Bond would be given the mission by M and then as he would go out on the field, he would inevitably come across Q. Here Bond would be equipped with the pertinent […]
Read More Prepared for ActionYou put the mixture in the oven. She hires that office worker. He plants the seeds. They pay the money for the new player. All with the same desire in mind. That desire is that the individual will produce the goods. There is a sense in which we can believe that we are put on […]
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