The Conference Call
I really do not like conference calls. They are okay when they are over but prior to and during such …
Category Archives: distraction
My Lighthouse
When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey Luke says that He paused as the city came into sight and …
What Kind of Church?
I’m struggling with church at the moment. Not the church I belong to as such. Just church. I honestly believe …
Ever See a Seagull Standing on the Water?
Part of the time ashore at college during my training as a Merchant Navy cadet was spent at the college …
Devoted to Who
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was …
Travelling Light
Have you ever been away from home on holiday/vacation or for some other reason and wondered how you managed to …
The Hat & Tattoo Taboo
It appears when you prayer to improve your character, you don’t instantly get your wish, but rather plenty of opportunities to practice. So the last two years have involved me have to man up and speak to people face to face more than ever before. But they also involved something else – more of me coming face to face with my own flaws than ever before too – usually by others pointing them out.
Leaving a Legacy
Under-achiever? It wasn’t too long after I started school when I realised that the teachers hated me. This was based …
Special Need
It is important to realise and understand how special we are to God. Failure to do so limits and constrains us, and may restrict God’s ability to achieve His plans for us.
Duty of our Call
There are so many reflections I could make on the night. Comparing my own desire for the eternal with the crowds desire for the temporary and finding myself lacking, wishing the church was as desperate to spread the gospel as these customers were to get their hands on the game. Sadly shaking my head as the memory of the night encapsulates all that I think is wrong with todays consumaristic society. The must have attitude where people are so desperate for the latest game, fashion, phone that they must be one of the first too own it, the sad fact that this will all be repeated on perhaps an even bigger scale next year when the next Call of Duty comes out.
God, Family, Friends, Church
Maybe not exactly but you get the idea. Didn’t Jesus come to free us from this kind of mindless legalism? Have we missed a trick by promoting this kind of priority style list? I mean we all know that God should be number one, but is a list the best way to motivate us? And how does this work out on a day to day basis? Like a to do list? Can we tick off the God part and then move onto our other priorities? Because if that’s the case isn’t it actually our jobs that comes out top? How do we balance God with these other important parts of our lives?
Finding God in the Ordinary
I love to look at the stars. As a young navigating officer in the Merchant Navy I knew many of …
The Best of Times
We all know the cliches about how we are more connected to each other than ever but somehow more lonely and I’m not going to re-cover that ground. Instead I have been thinking about how this state of affairs has affected our relationship with God. I think I have a ‘text’ relationship with God. But only the bad side of texting.
Big Pictures
Sometimes seeing the bigger picture causes us to lose track of the moment. Ben’s in the moment, he’s off to school for the first time and he’s not going to let this minor annoyance stop him. Would we be the same? Or would fear of the future freeze us in the present?
‘God speed’
We spend (/waste) so much of our lives thinking and working or being anxious or proud based on the past or the future – both of which are often irrelevant to life, and cripple our ability to live in this moment. ‘God speed’ is not necessarily progress at a spectacular rate – it is acceptance of existence in the moment. Living…right now.
Ebs and Flows... 