Relational beings are called to reflect the divine relational being who patterns what it is to be relational. Great relationships start with the one between the husband and wife. That is the greatest earthly expression of team. Two become one in the most intimate sense and share life together for a common purpose and learn over […]
Read More The Team: Based On A Great ExampleYou are talking and I am listening. I am talking and you are listening. You repeat what I said to you. I repeat what you said to me. We agree that’s what has been said. Then off we do something completely different to what the conversation was about. Crunch time hits and questions fly around […]
Read More The Team: Founded On Essential CommunicationLately I was sharing with a friend how I don’t really review what I’ve written on this blog that often. It’s often the case that once it’s been blogged that’s it and if I ever come across it again it will be months and years after I wrote it. Seven years ago I wrote a […]
Read More The Team: Working Out The KinksApparently someone said it is more blessed to give than receive. As that is the case, givers must be hugely blessed indeed. Recently I had the privilege of being a part of a special family birthday brunch. The person celebrating the birthday is not my blood relative, but because of Christ and the impact they […]
Read More The Honour In Being A BlessingThere is a war going on. There is a war to be won. It is a war that takes place whether we believe it or not and it’s war that is happening in the unseen realm with repercussions felt in the seen realm. It’s important to see that struggle taking place in the context of […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: Finally … Win The StruggleIt’s not the most pleasant word in modern, enlightened, liberated, autonomous culture. In that light it’s understandable that some do all manner of contortions to make what Paul outlines in key relationships as fitting with the egalitarian way of thinking. Paul was a product of his times and so we should just appreciate this as […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: SubmitWe are indeed privileged to be able to read the letter that is referred to as the letter to the Ephesians. We can indeed read it, but I also love the fact that it was written so its target audience would be able to hear it. More likely than not a gathering would sit and […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: Just ListenThere’s something about scripture that the more I read it and appreciate the more I’m aware that I need to understand how I can bridge the gap between what it says and how I live. That’s not just an individual consideration. It affects how I view the nature of how we gather as the called […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: Opening NotesMy friend would not feel comfortable sitting in on a church gathering that I’ve attended from time to time. It can come across as formulaic, the programme and structure appears to demand a certain formality. The way people dress doesn’t look too relaxed and being talked at for half an hour to 45 minutes is […]
Read More Intentional Investments in IntimacyWe were talking as we usually do and he mentioned something about someone being upset that they had not been contacted in a while. That started something off in me that was not going to settle down in a hurry. What was at stake was the very nature of church. For some it’s enough to […]
Read More There’s More To It Than That: Church Again
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