Yeah there’s the Jesus stuff which is very important to me. There is the church stuff, which is also very important. There are the ideas that knock around my head on other issues to talk about (for example I’m thinking about a series on All My Working Life). Yet from time to time it’s just […]
Read More Just Free-BloggingFinally we complete the mini-series that I’ve been writing about the family and my developing understanding of the this crucial foundation of society. It would be useful to summarise how I came to this point with a couple of dating scenarios. In January 1990 I was a 12 year old boy whose concept of family […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Where I Am NowI told you yesterday that sometimes concepts and ideas for blog entries can come in like a flood. So for example we have the family development series yet to be completed, and I started off something yesterday about reading and writing that I’ve yet to finish off. Now for these two I already have it […]
Read More Because Who’s Worth It? My Problem With Self-EsteemThe concluding part of our brief series on my growing understanding of family is coming up soon. Today though, I was reflecting on the nature of friends as I was looking to update me Facebook page. My relationship with Facebook has been interesting since I signed up to it about a year or so ago. […]
Read More Friends Now and ThenWe are continuing the series on me growing journey of understanding what family is. As a recap there was the early days back in Wellingborough. I saw a wider world of family church wise when I went to Peckham during the university days. There was the dramatic shift in fortunes from the comforts of church […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Broader HorizonsThis is the third in a series of blogs on the topic of my growing understanding of what family is. I started at the beginning – which has to be a first … probably. I established what family was in the formative years in my life. From there I went onto talk about the radical […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Living With The LawrencesRecently I gave a little preamble to the amble through my journey in family. (Come on, what else is a preamble there for if we’re not going for an amble, it beats going for a logue whatever that is.) Have a read to refresh yourself. Where I left it was as a 18 year old […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Pukka In PeckhamRecently I was writing about the kind of environment conducive to genuine praise and genuine community engagement in the light of the ‘spiritual covering’ practice. Read it for yourself by clicking for part one and part two. One aspect of the argument was about how we’re more likely to be ourselves when we’re at home. […]
Read More Consider Yourself … A PreambleAbigail Elizabeth Danielle Dryden. The initials were deliberately set to be a constant reminder of the most beautiful woman in the world. Thank God so far Abigail herself has been such a tremendous blessing in our lives that she will undoubtedly be recognised as the most beautiful woman in someone else’s world. It was 3:27am […]
Read More Abby BirthdayI was challenged not too long to explain the reasons for my position on the identity of Jesus Christ. The challenge was laid out as a matter of urgency because what was at stake was the crucial pivotal point of life – who is worthy of worship. There are perceptions that suggest only God is […]
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