Guest Blog: Last year I invited a number of people to write sermons on the Beatitudes. Bill Gray wrote about Peacemaking within the battleground of an addiction to gambling. Here is a condensed version. My life is anything but peaceful. I have a continuous, on-going, relentless, battle with an addiction […]
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The early church leader Paul was an amazing leader. He took on huge challenges and amongst them infighting within his own Christian community. Nothing changes much does it! One of the challenges he throws us is how to love whilst people are stabbing you in the back. He had an […]
My Dance with Depression and What I Have Learnt Depression can be a killer. For those who daily face the darkness, they need help. In this series, I share a few dance steps I have learned. 9. Do Something! You may not feel like doing anything. Don’t trust your feelings; […]
I experience Depression. It reached a tipping point last year and in this series of blogs I am sharing what I learned both from personal experience and walking with others about Depression. 7. Medication helps, some. OK, I take some medication. Since last year I have been taking a small […]
Men and Women are different We all know this! We have been wired quite differently by God to be complementary to each other. Now, this blog post is not designed to be a place where we will argue black and white views; there is a lot of grey in the […]
In my last post I started off a series on what I have learnt about depression from my own personal dance with the haunting figurine. So on to part two. 4. Love by listening One of the things I most needed, and few gave, was Love. Love that is quiet […]
A quite personal blog. I thought I would write about my dance with depression. It all came to a bit of a head last year and I am well on the recovery road. Over the years I have talked and helped many people recover from depression. They have taught […]
Stop, right now. Yeah, I’m talking to you the listener! Just stop! For a few seconds, just take a breather in your busyness, and listen. Hear the world around you, the noise, the clock ticking, creating pressure. Listen to the silence that must be filled with something, I suppose? The […]
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Mahatma Gandhi. ‘My life is not where I want it to be, I should be …’ ‘Should’s’ have a powerful pull over the mind. We have expectations, we have dreams, others have expectations for us, and others have dreams for us. […]
Once upon a time, yes its one of those stories, the Ear, the Eye and the Tongue got together for a chat. The Eye was telling the other two about how it had observed something the day before. It had watched an event intently and saw all that could […]