Some of the things that people consider really important are not really that big a deal. Some issues that gets people all upset and argumentative in the larger scheme of things is not really worth the grief. For example the debate over free-will and predestination. Knowing how divisive we can be with useful cloaks of […]
Read More Treating People The Same?I’m sure this is not how community works at all. I’m sure people freely decide to think things through carefully for themselves so they know why they are doing what they are doing. I’m sure people who have views, opinions and beliefs are in no way pressured to do so by their peers and contemporaries. […]
Read More I Wonder If This Is How Community Works?Just a quick one for you, click the link to watch/hear a perspective on inter-racial marriage from a guy I admire, John Piper. Do not just consider it from the perspective of marriage, consider carefully the implications for church living in a multi-cultural society, with a mission to reach those of different ethnicities. Consider those […]
Read More On Inter-Racial MarriagesDocumentaries, I love them. I love how decent documentaries are the very best in true life stories. By best I mean even the best of the worst of human characteristics. ESPN did a brilliant series of documentaries on various sports stories celebrating their 30 years in existence (30 For 30). One of them was on […]
Read More But That’s Cheating … And That’s Redemption“I would never do a thing like that!” I have said it before and God has brought me up on it. The best way He’s brought me up on it is to put me in a situation where I do the exact thing I said I would never do. I’m sure that’s not happened to […]
Read More Wisdom For This Moment: No Such Thing As Divorce-ProofOne of the things I love about the community of faith is that it gives you time to be superficial and fake whilst giving you time to realise that being way is going to profit you nothing. In as much as some centre their Christian expressions to the weekly service, there are those who centre […]
Read More Going Beyond The SuperficialWhat an empowering and humbling experience it is to be a knowing recipient of mercy. Empowering in the sense that it really comes across as a release – as a second chance to live life where it may have been curtailed or in otherwise justifiably inhibited. Humbling in the sense that you are receiving something […]
Read More Lord Have MercyToday my family and I had the incredible honour of attending the engagement service of a precious family friend. The nature of the service included songs, prayers and encouraging words for the couple. While this was taking place it afforded me the time to consider carefully again the whole deal about marriage. Whilst pondering that […]
Read More Marriage: Lifelong Pursuit Of IntimacyI don’t have many friends, so the friends I have I tend to treasure. There is one amazing friend I developed in my time in Stoke-on-Trent who walked with me a lot in my last three years in the city, and I’ve deliberately not maintained contact with him in the last year and what that […]
Read More Good Times With Andy KindA friend of mine asked an innocent question – “Have you got any advice for bringing up a child?” After I finished laughing at the thought of me offering advice to anyone, I did acknowledge that there some lessons I’ve learnt and am still learning in this fatherhood gig so far and I went off […]
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