There is a WikiHow article entitled, “How to Live a Long Life.” Here is no. 9 from that list: Write a gratitude list. When you write a gratitude list, you will feel much better about yourself and you won’t think about what you don’t have. When you focus on what you have now, you attract […]
I have always wondered why so many people who do not believe the gospel message sing sacred music of all descriptions so well and so meaningfully sometimes that one is very hard-pressed to believe that they don’t believe! WHY won’t more Christians sing like they actually believe? Do we sing what we do because we […]
I am still reflecting on the evening’s sermon that I heard earlier. Some incredible stories from a variety of evangelism ‘front-lines’ that really made one stop and think about what God is doing in the world. Earlier this week the Bible study group that I lead at one of our UK universities discussed doubt. In […]
I read these words in an email from a very good friend of mine several days ago, but I just returned to that email and realised that they totally needed more thought than I gave them the first time round: “I read yesterday about how God is strongest when we are weakest. Which made me […]
In my own life experience, in both Christian and non-Christian circles I have encountered the idea that a person can be addicted to something good as well as something bad. Sometimes the rationale for this idea is based on Ephesians 5:18, which reads thus: “Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. […]
This morning, something happened that took me back to my childhood, and a specific vision that I had for my life. A better word would be ‘ambition.’ I would tell you what it was, but I can also see that doing justice to the specifics would make it another 2000-plus-word-post, and I am not sure […]
Self-harm?!? What, you mean those ever-so-slightly-unbalanced folk who cut themselves because they’ve got teen angst issues? ~ If, deep down, that’s what you think when you hear or read ‘self-harm,’ then you have issues of your own. Seeing as most people have ‘issues’ that they never find out about (or often when it is too […]
Here’s a huge problem for the Christian Church: many preachers are only preaching sermons that are geared towards helping people to live a better life here and now. They are not preparing people for the soon return of Jesus Christ. When the author of the book of Ecclesiastes said (7:2) “it is better to go […]
It was in trying to craft a first sentence of this post that I realised all over again how deeply unwise some generalisations are. What do people believe regarding ‘good’ and ‘evil?’ And do they arrive at the positions that they hold on their own terms, or do they merely appropriate the arguments and […]
Well, it is great to be back in the land of blog – the past few months have been quite insane, but God is good and I am still alive and breathing. This post is written for a very good friend who asked me a recent question on facebook in response to something I had […]
