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What is a prodigal? The dictionary definition is someone who spends money wastefully. The story about the prodigal son Luke 15: 11-32 tells us about a son who takes all his inheritance and disappeared to a distant land where he wasted it all on wild living. After many years, the son returns to the father, […]
so you may have noticed my fiddling with this theme. I’m switching between one with the cacti and one with the sky at the top. I like the cactus one better but it was missing a few important things so I was looking for a better template. However, now I’m getting better at fixing templates, […]
I’m new at this, I admit it. I mean at this new vision of church. Ideas that I thought were all mine have all been thought before. Even that one
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which […]
The other day I was on the number 35 bus from Clapham Junction to Brixton when I encountered a man with what would could be termed “Bible Tourettes”. As the bus was going along he would suddenly shout out edited Bible verses. There was not much offensive about the words he used, and I am sure he […]
I had my eyes lasered last summer and a year on I still have the occasional sudden elation as I realise what I can see. The last one happened when I was in the swimming pool and my heart leaped as I realised I could see the registration number of a car on the other […]
Donald Miller, in Blue Like Jazz, writes that
‘the ability to accept God’s unconditional love and ferocious grace is all the fuel we need to obey him in return.’
He explains how our response to God’s love is so often filtered by pride. We are simply not prepared to stand before God, as we are, and accept […]
Brian McLaren
A fantastic book, the third in the series along with “A new kind of christian” and “The story we find ourselves in“. The story continues with some of the familiar characters and many new ones. Pastor Dan is this time faced with trying to council his teenage daughter who cannot reconcile the idea of […]