I’m over at Provoketive this week with this post (a version of which some may have read before). Spiritual disciplines are activities in our power that we engage in to enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort. Dallas Willard in The Great Omission. There is something so true about this statement. Spiritual … Continue reading »
I really like the weekly college chapel service. It may be something to do with it being a service where I don’t have to sing, lead the service or preach. Though, in ten days’ time, I will actually be preaching there and, in the past, I have been known to lead the service a couple … Continue reading »
I haven’t featured any bloggers recently because I have been reading so many books. Also, I had been finding that keeping on top of people’s blogs is very time-consuming and, if you get posts e-mailed to your inbox, it really clogs up your inbox! That had put me off for the last few months. But then … Continue reading »
I started this year feeling pretty lost in 2011. With only twenty goals on the conservative version of the list(!), I wasn’t really sure which way to turn. I was believing God for a year of new opportunities as I finished off my MA dissertation and turned my eyes to consider what God might have … Continue reading »
The following excerpt made it into my journal last month and I remembered it again this week. It is Eugene Peterson in his memoir, The Pastor, talking about writing as conversation, rather than as a way of ‘passing on information or feelings’. He notes that: It was a way of writing that involved a good deal … Continue reading »
I love Fridays. They are my variation on Sabbath. They are an ocean of peace in an otherwise fraught week full of tasks and people. Now don’t get me wrong, I love people and I am more of a task person than quite possibly anyone else I know. People and task are good! But Fridays … Continue reading »
Quoting myself into silence was a post from just under five months ago where I set out practices which I intended to implement in order to focus on intentional growth this year. Self-reviews, especially on things like this, can be good so I thought I might do one! Here is what I committed to exploring: CREATING … Continue reading »
The problem with reading lots of books at once is that sometimes you can have a great thought and you know it came from someone but you cannot for the life of you remember which particular author it was this time. That is my problem today. The thought relates to how we receive telephone calls … Continue reading »
But I am…convinced that if(!) I can discipline my heart in 2011 to wait for God to reveal more of who he created me to be, then what I do will flow naturally from that. I have just quoted myself. Honesty forces me to admit that I am the one who smiles when other people … Continue reading »
Memorising Scripture is one of the most powerful means of transforming our minds… And if you are concerned that you have a memory like a steel sieve, don’t be. What matters is not how many words we memorise, but what happens to our minds when we immerse them in Scripture. Hmm, thank you John Ortberg … Continue reading »
