I was hunting through my hard drive for images that might be a basis for a painting. I came across this photographic image which I took sometime in February 2013. [caption id="attachment_20144" align="alignnone" width="777"] An empty building that seems to be slowly falling apart on the main street...
I have been thinking, or more accurately, God is stirring something in me along these lines above. I am changing the name of this blog because I have been thinking; I am not a theologian I am not educated by any significant institution. I am mostly...
I have just read through Ephesians 1 and have made a list of all things that are ours in Christ; His grace (favour, completely unmerited) peace every spiritual blessing holiness His love sonship by adoption accepted beloved redemption forgiveness knowledge of the mystery of His will wisdom prudence an inheritance of all things in heaven and on the earth a...
This parable can have more than one simple reading. In the practical sense it is a great story of an outsider showing mercy and compassion for a fellow man, while those that should know better it is showing a lack thereof. But wait! There is more! In...
A simple mistranslation of a word in 2 Thessalonians 2 could make this chapter confusing and rob us of hope, get it right and the whole chapter makes sense and purifies us with hope. This is how most modern English translations read as here in the...
The title above is a clue to my initial thirty five year Christian journey. I have mostly read the bible every day as I am a routine sort of guy with an overly anxious sense of obligation to most things. When I was not being...
There is a wave coming, it is on the horizon, it is a wave of very good news and it will sweep through the churches. It is not about us, or any thing we do, it is a wave of the good news of our...
This is a very simple recipe, simple as far as the bread is concerned. I came across this parable in Luke 13, it may be the shortest parable Jesus told; Luke 12:20 ...
I remember when I was young and reading comics I often came across a picture of Charles Atlas as the epitome of robust healthy manhood, the ‘before’ illustration was a skinny young man having sand kicked into his face by the local bully. This made...
Why is that Bible left lying on the shelf, unopened for decades, just a space filler. I think the reason may be how we picture God, and how we see ourselves. If we view God as a distant being, who is getting grumpy, then we...