To be a man after God's own heart. Then to lead, labour, inspire and encourage others to be the same
When I was a new Christian in my early teens, one of the main arenas of discipleship and spiritual growth for me was the act of worship. I learnt how to play the guitar so that I could play worship songs. I had singing lessons so I could lead worship in church. In my own…
One of my favourite ways to connect to God is through worship, for me this goes back to my teenage years. It was in a moment of worship that I encountered God and believed that He had a plan for me. It was only when I reached the age of 18 that I started delving…
Sorry for a quiet week of posts (or lack of!) I promise I’ve got a meaty one lined up! In the meantime I wanted to briefly share a song that blessed me tonight: knowing You Jesus , by Graham Kendrick. It’s largely based off Philippians 3. I count all I once held dear as garbage…
In case you haven’t heard, I’m studying the Bible! If you’ve got yourself an ESV study Bible, you’ll notice there’s about 50 odd pages of introductions before you actually get to Genesis 1:1. Being an enthusiastic person, who struggles to do things half-heartedly. I’m reading through the introductions and studying them too (a slight distraction).…
Strange title for a blog post right? There is a well known story in the Bible of a “sinful woman” who breaks a jar of perfume (probably a years wages), and wet’s Jesus’ feet with it, using her hair! It’s found in Luke 7:36-50. In the story there are onlookers who are judgemental. They criticise…
There we go, there’s a nice, big, blocky, pixilated photo for you all to fix your eyes upon. I’m sure we’ll all enjoy zooming in and out of that with the tiny smartphone screens. Thanks for stopping by. I wanted to share the contents of a chapter I read today from Mike Breen’s book: Building…
Forcing myself to get this up and posted. Thanks to everyone who ‘liked’ the previous post – not that I’m doing this for the approval. Because that would be vain of me 😉 and we all know that is not a pitfall battle for me! ;P But, seriously, it is actually encouraging to get the…
In order to complete this section I used Biblegateway to find all the passages where Righteousness and Justice were mentioned and then did a limited topical Bible study on these sections. Before going into the study I want to talk about the connection between worship and justice mentioned in Isaiah 1. These verses didn’t come…
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