From time to time I get in those phases of thought on issues that concern more than me. Recently, I was informed by a close personal friend that someone I knew was struggling with their sexual identity. Sadly for the individual in question they belonged to certain church-folk who … to put it politely … […]
Read More Community of Compassion or Community of Hypocrisy?For a community of people who are meant to be freed and released to confess faults one to another, there aren’t half a lot of stuff that goes unconfessed. What I particularly enjoy about this clip is how practical and relevant it is not just for principles in a marriage relationship for disclosure, but how […]
Read More Confessing LustI often put in a gospel song in this slot and I’m happy to keep that going, but from time to time I do com across some other clips that are very interesting from my faith perspective. With my love and interest in matters of the church this clip offers dome food for thought. For […]
Read More Church Family(He looks left to see if there’s any emails not yet sent that might get in his way – none there. He looks right to see if any great gospel artists have passed on deserving a special tribute – none there. It is safe to blog and so he begins …) There is a convention […]
Read More I’m Packing UpI do have some significance news to post and I was meant to post it today, but due to some communication breakdown issues I have to postpone that significant news until tomorrow at the earliest. It is significant. It is worth waiting for. In the meantime despite the hang-up, I came across a document today […]
Read More The Power of AffirmationNothing much for this time of evening. It’s another blessed Sabbath evening. Most of the family are asleep and I’ll be heading that way in the not too distant future. I was considering thought what it is about the Sabbath as a communal celebration that should make it something to eagerly await and embrace. I’m […]
Read More Just Some Sabbath ReflectionsI was just informed by my sister recently that my Aunt Nalda has died. She was suffering for quite a while so in one sense it’s the end of the suffering, on the other hand though, more importantly, someone in the family has died. My mum’s sister has died. Life is for the living. Life […]
Read More For The Living – In Times Of ConsolationDon Moen. Don’t know him. Heard some of his songs, still don’t know him. Seen him in a few videos and still don’t know him. What I will say about the fella, though, is that he knows how to put together a good song for the purpose of engaging our hearts and minds to the […]
Read More Our Father – Don MoenIndependence is such a vaunted quality in life today and yet the reality is that it’s only by interdependence that any success has ever been achieved. Even those who learn by themselves would not have been as successful in a vacuum and the very tools that help them learn by themselves had to be put […]
Read More Never Would Have Made It – Marvin SappNot going to be long with you at all just putting in a post thanking God for taking me through the first half of the year. It’s been a rollercoaster ride of a year – January – Finishing work in Stoke and getting used to life without Stoke-on-Trent February – Wilderness time out of work […]
Read More It’s A Year Of Two Halves – A Word Of Thanksgiving On The First Half
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