Many years ago, I was at a meeting where Roger Jones shared how to enter into worship. I recall it was based on the model of temple, where you start outside and progress into the holy of holies: The model is that you start with praise. General songs declaring the goodness and greatness of God. […]
….white, (bet you expected a different colour). A few years back you could buy paint in a range of colours, but there was only ever one white and that was brilliant! Then a well known paint company – famous for its old English sheep dog – brought out four new whites with names like barley […]
If you have any school connections you will be aware that school reports usually indicate what level the student is working at. This has a number of undesired effects: The level acts as a label. Those with a low level will be convinced that they can never achieve more than their level and may give […]
It seems to be a natural reaction to bad things and disasters whether personal or national to seek to assign blame. A disaster is seen as punishment for some wrong – this leads to people saying some really stupid things such as blaming a storm on some minority group. It also is known as scapegoating. […]
There are a number of verses in the Bible that link together cause and outcomes. For example Psalm 37 vs 4: Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. On my degree course I studied different kinds of logic. Propositional logic, is that branch of logic that describes […]
There have some interesting TV series looking at how this have changed like “Back in time for the weekend” which started with the 1950’s through to the present. It showed how much technology has changed our lives over a few decades. I have heard speakers at a church ago began his talk by apologising to […]