What do you see when you look down out of a window? The question, like last week, is obvious but what about the answer? To look down is to look at the ground for though we are to look up, in awe and worship, prayer also calls us to look
Continue readingWhat do you see when you look up out of a window? I know the question is obvious but the answer isn’t. Your answer should be the sky but the similarity between what we see and what the people in the Bible saw ends right there. We ‘see’ layers of
Continue readingAre you familiar with the 2 step? The 3 step? How about the 7 step? The 2 step is a break dance move and for those who prefer something a bit more highbrow the 3 step is the Foxtrot; but what I would like us to focus on is the
Continue readingThe hardest thing to do in silent prayer is to discipline your mind. We are very used to being over stimulated and to have that TV remote mentality, if you’re allowed to hold it of course (!!), of channel hopping. Culturally we have built into ourselves an almost pathological inability
Continue readingMy hunch is, is that a number of you are a bit disappointed. You may have thought that when I was going to be speaking about prayer it would be what you might say and not about breathing. Also, what is it with these 2 minutes? Let me help you.
Continue readingI read on Facebook this week something that got me thinking. The post said during this Coronavirus lockdown it’s ok not to start a new hobby, not to redecorate the whole house or do all of those jobs you’ve been promising yourself to do. As I pondered this I appreciated
Continue readingThe story of Salome is about sensuality, sexuality and seduction. She is described as being frivolous, callous and manipulative but she is a young woman trying to survive and thrive in a man’s world. We may not like the way she does it but this is who she is. Salome
Continue readingSamson and sensible don’t belong together. Is it sensible to attack a lion? To marry your enemy? To alienate everyone at your wedding so that they burn your wife’s family home? To pursue a devious woman like Delilah? To allow yourself to be seduced by your enemy? To presume upon
Continue readingI have a few Bibles at home, some of which are a bit different from what you might expect. I have a Bikers’ Bible which is a standard Bible but with testimonies in it of what it means as a Biker to live and trust in Jesus. I also have
Continue readingThe Bible is a strange book. Its strangeness is because of its age, the cultures it reflects, the stories it tells, the vocation we’re to live out and above all of the God it speaks of. One of the peculiar assumptions we can make about the Bible is to assume
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