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Food Glorious Food!
It is one thing to lose weight, but it is another thing entirely to try and understand why you were overweight in the first place. Unless you can unlock this mystery, long term change will always be harder. This question has stayed with me for many months now as I have read widely and racked [...]
Considering Creation
Our church is providing another creation science event, with speaker Dr George Matzko (Bob Jones University). The first topic was “Design in Nature,” which surveyed various ways in which the universe has been precisely planned. Throughout the presentation, it was fascinating to see the precision of God in the natural world, such as the solar [...]
When you’re the broken arm in the body of Christ
Teaching, cleaning, painting, singing… life is busy in the body of Christ. But what about when it isn’t? What about when you can’t teach and you can’t clean? You’re too weary to paint and you’re too empty to sing? I think we generally find it easy enough to minister in the body. We are part [...]
Thinking about Possessions
One of my prized childhood possessions was a helicopter toy with moving rotors. You could place two figures into the helicopter and it had spring-loaded missiles. One day after church, we had some visitors come over and my helicopter went missing. I found it the next day with both rotors snapped off the main body. [...]
The People God Chooses To Save
Susan Boyle was the 47-year old Scottish woman who applied to the TV show Britain’s Got Talent. When she presented herself, the judges and the crowd didn’t believe she could sing. She didn’t look like a singer. When she talked, she didn’t sound like a singer. Then she started singing. Susan Boyle was chosen as [...]
A Christian Self Image
I’ve been meaning to finish up my series on self image for a long time now. You can see the first two posts here and here. Those two posts lay the groundwork for this one. I’m going to try to summarise a Christian self image succinctly. 1) God made you and what he made was [...]
When Do People Change?
Whether saved or unsaved, we all tend to change the same way. It is usually when staying the same becomes intolerable. This may be a job change, relationship change, character change, etc etc. Such changes can of course be for good or ill. It is one thing to change a girlfriend but another thing to [...]
Just because
You know how to recognise a person who isn’t acting deliberately? Ask him “why?” If he doesn’t know, then he’s probably doing it “just because.” “Just because” is rarely a good reason. “Why do I need a reason for everything I do?” you might ask. Because that’s what it means to live deliberately. It means [...]
Thoreau: “to live deliberately”
He wasn’t a believer, but Henry David Thoreau was a thoughtful and articulate man. This piece from Walden inspires and intrigues me. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, [...]
Every Day is Precious
Every day is precious. Don’t waste even one.
Deliberate living: death of spontaneity?
Does deliberate living spell death for spontaneity? I’ve been thinking this through over the last two weeks as several people brought it up in the comments here and here. Here are my thoughts. 1) The opposite of intentionality is not spontaneity. The opposite of intentionality is traditionalism. Traditionalism does something because “that’s the way we’ve [...]
The deliberate Christ
To be deliberate is to always move forward with the destination in mind. Perhaps the most striking picture of the deliberate Christ is found in Luke 9:51: “He set his face to go to Jerusalem.” This is at least six months before his crucifixion, and yet Jesus Christ—the deliberate Christ—is moving forward with the destination [...]
