On long car journeys, as kids, we would regularly listen to Larry Norman singing, ‘I’m only visiting this planet’. That lyric got me through a good deal of minor disappointments and anxieties in my youth. Back in the 80s, I didn’t realise that the Christian rockstar was probably quoting Billy Graham! Scrolling through the tributes tonight, I […]
‘I’m a professional cynic, but my heart’s not in it’*. This well-known lyric from my Britpop days started going round in my head today. I think something in my memory bank was triggered when I was contemplating New Year’s Resolutions. I’m the one who says I’m not making any. I get tired of the same
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Picture in your mind for a moment an evangelist… Did Billy Graham come to mind? Or someone with a loud, confident voice standing at a street corner? File that visual image for a moment. Now think back to the moment you came to believe for the first time. Who was it that had the
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I’ve been exploring the whole idea of ‘mindfulness’ in more depth recently. There have been two books that have helped me with this, Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality by Tim Stead, who is an Anglican priest and Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Williams and Penman. This last one is described as a “life changing
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Think for a moment of someone you care about who doesn’t know Jesus. How deeply do you want them to come to faith? What would you give to help them on their journey? Mostly we think in terms of our conversations and prayer and friendship as being the stepping-stones in terms of bringing someone we
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