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All in Relationships
As I’ve reflected on the many distressing stories filling up my social media this week, of those I know and love being on the receiving end of such toxic-masculine culture, I have been reminded of the various biblical accounts of women who’s stories have been uncomfortably exposed for all posterity. In many ways, nothing has changed… To those men reading; we have to stand up and take notice…
When Jesus first called the disciples into leadership, he didn’t tell them to just go and make disciples in some abstract, general, permission giving way. Neither did he wait for them to come to him and ask to be sent. Instead he initiated the invite and then…
I often find that when I ask people how their walk with God is going, they shuffle a bit awkwardly before mumbling that they don’t pray and read the bible enough. What I find so funny and tragic about this statement is - if you think about it - its ridiculous…
I recently produced a teaching session for Youth For Christ resources around the idea of Entitlement which posed two fundamental questions I think everyone needs to ask themselves: “What am I entitled to” and, perhaps the better, more hard hitting rephrasing “Am I entitled to anything!?”
There is a growing trend amongst some Christians and churches to try and make themselves more acceptable to others by stating that they aren’t religious, and/or they dislike Christians or even Christianity itself! To a certain extent, I can understand why they do it, but I’m not sure how helpful or how biblical it is...
Recently I’ve been thinking about how our relationship with God is a whole new category of relationship. But this leave us with the difficult task of trying to explain or define it…
You may, like me, have found yourself asking at times “Does God really want a personal relationship with me?” Recently this questions has crept into my head (again!) and so I thought I’d be proactive about exploring just why Christians believe the personal relationship thing is such a big deal….
A couple of weeks ago I read a really interesting article written by a catholic lesbian. It was a very honest and vulnerable account. Here, I want to reflect on one particular point the author raised: the church’s (so-called) preoccupation with marital love.
