Today 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 […]
Read More More Lessons In FatherhoodBoth sides of the fence, eh? Nothing quite like it. I have clear recollections of being a boy growing up in the family home in Wellingborough. I would get upset about something and feel aggrieved at the injustice of it all and my voice would raise and I’d overstep the mark and my Dad in […]
Read More Do You Know Who You’re Talking To?This doesn’t just apply to ‘loving couples’, I find it applies to family and the extended family of faith. Almost as though God intended life to be lived together. (HT: The Meta Picture) For His Name’s Sake Shalom dmcd
Read More TogetherI remember a time when the child would be counselled by the parent on the ‘birds and the bees’. This picture would give you the impression that it’s only recently that things have changed. I’d argue though, that the whole peer pressure and influence of other forces have rendered the concept of that talk all […]
Read More The TalkI realise as I type this that there is a very real risk that I’ll come across like a pompous buffoon who has something against ‘practical’ people. Yet I write as I’m given utterance and we’ll take it from there. Today’s entry is inspired by a conversation I had with one of the learners in […]
Read More The Cosy Relationship of Theory and PracticeI saw this today and I had a chuckle … then after the chuckle I thought about it a bit more … One thing that puzzled me all the way through me life in church was the attraction to special outfits and garbs. In the specific church in which I grew up that was particularly […]
Read More The Lord Is With You … But Not That LordIn my opinion it is by no means his best song and that it was so popular is still something of a mystery to me. For all that I don’t begrudge the fact that Stevie Wonder’s biggest single was called ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You’. The lyrics are interesting in as much […]
Read More Being In LoveMaybe this post would have been better off being called the ‘P’ words and Marriage, (purity and patience are other ‘p’ words that would fit this article nicely) but I’m not too fussed. Pornography. There I’ve said it. One of the things I cannot account for is the age of the reader, so I endeavour […]
Read More The ‘P’ Word and Marriage
