On Sunday 2nd of January 2011 I went on a retreat. This meant going to a nature reserve in the Chiltern Hills, where usually I can wander around for a whole day and not see anyone. Recently the question “What is the last thing that God said to you?” has been in the air. I’ve […]
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Where were you made?
Genesis 2 tells the story of how God created mankind. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had […]
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Is there a purpose – part 2
You might like to read this first… I left the last post at the rather discouraging point of saying “That I gave up”. And in some ways I did. As I grow older, and hopefully wiser, I come to realise that in those earlier days I had been seeking the answer to my “Is there […]
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Is there a purpose – part 1
More than a decade ago I went through a phase of trying to discover my purpose. Why had God put me here? Was it purely just as a training ground for what happened in the hereafter? Was there some sort of divine reasoning behind me? Is there more than “The chief aim of man is […]
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The Wise man built his house…
A few years back, when my little ones where really little this song was all the rage. How we enjoyed doing the rain coming down and washing away the foolish man’s house on the sand. Around that time I was reading Dallas Willards “The Divine Conspiracy”, perhaps one of my all time favourite books. One […]
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