The father looked at his son and smiled warmly. “You are not happy are you, son?” “No Dad,” came the sullen reply. “Your face is showing something that I can see, but it reveals something that I cannot see. Do you see that, son?” “Yes Dad,” mumbled the boy. “You get things from your Mum […]
Read More A Simple UnderstandingThere is an approach to life that is based on that which can be measured. How long? How much? What time? Which place? The quantifiables in life. You know where you stand when it can be quantified. Things like your goals in life should be quantifiable. Yet, you watch certain things in life take place […]
Read More Cannot Be MeasuredThen Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first.Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us: “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring […]
Read More Acts Actually: 13 – Adventures on the MissionThe day and age in which I live is one that is very concerned about practicality. A scientific age of technological developments has given emphasis to what can physically be proven and shown to be efficient and productive. As with most things there is good and bad in those things. Plenty to celebrate for the […]
Read More Spooky ChristianityHonestly, I was minding my own business. Online as I am wont to do on occasion, finding out more about the new Fred Hammond album about to be launched and checking up on his web-site which was still celebrating plans for his organisation in 2011. (Not saying the site is in need of an update, […]
Read More Revisiting The Secular-Spiritual DivideNot that long ago, I was sitting in this church service and it so happens that the topic the speaker chooses is on Spontaneity. He gave a really good description of what it is to be spontaneous and it had something to do with almost acting on an impulse without great thought and with little […]
Read More Spontaneity and SpiritualitySo following the article on Thursday and my thoughts on that there were the services going on today. My friend Rob Simmonite also had this to blog on the situation. On the one hand it’s a time to be grateful for the sacrifices of those brave officers etc. It’s also, however, a chance to consider […]
Read More War – What Is It Good For?I’m still amused by the mentality of not talking about religion or politics around the dinner table. Or like in The Godfather where you’re not allowed to talk about business around the family dinner table. Those things make me chuckle. What I chuckle about is how silly that rule is, where else can you get […]
Read More Spiritual and Political – Whether We Like It Or NotIn a recent blog on the issue formality and spirituality regarding clothing, I was questioning the big deal we make about clothing and its relation to ‘church services’. (Read it again, it’s worth while to get the context on where I’m coming from with what follows.) There is something of a conceit with the whole […]
Read More It’s A Formality – Part TwoSometimes it’s best not to question certain practices and norms, because when you start to question you start on a slippery slope to rebellion against that which our fathers and forefathers held in high regard. Take for example clothes. I do believe that clothes makes the man. I do believe that fashion makes a statement […]
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