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What is a Christian?
Book, Podcast, Film, and Blog Reviews
Poetry
For Writers, Writing and Everything Else
Words on hold
People write about writers’ block…so I thought I’d join in but like most things it becomes something else
Discerning the present call of God
Prophets have a dual role to call the people back and to call them forward into the purposes of God…this post explores the prophetic call on us in the New Covenant/New Testament
Paris ’24 – 17th April 2024
100 days to go before Paris ‘24 Olympics - time for a 10K update
The Case for renaming Easter Saturday
Easter Saturday falls silently between Good Friday and Easter Sunday…what happened on the Saturday?
Book Review: Home by Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson’s books Gilead and Home belong together…but this is a review of Home, the sequel. A compelling read.
Leaving the Ninety-Nine
When Jesu left the 120 disciples in Jerusalem during the afternoon of His resurrection day to search for Cleopas en route to Emmaus, He literally acted out His parable to leave the 99…thought provoking
Not a typical Friday
More of a journal than a poem? Except that it’s one of those heaven touching Earth moments, gentle lightning perhaps.
The last teabag
Breakfast this morning. One last tea bag in the jar I keep them in. It looked alone. Got ,me pondering. Tea poured. Poem. In that order.
Allotment Wisdom - February
Inspiration for this poem came from the Apostle Paul’s phrase ‘men who suppress the truth’…it doesn’t end well
Deep calls unto deep
Those familiar with Ps 42 will recognise ‘Deep calls unto deep’. The spiritual communication between any two people that are close - or not - and between each of us and God….is a two way street…or a two-rope trick if you read the poem.
Sinking into Silence
Reminiscing - those rare moments in teaching when a whole class is submerged in a deep silence that needs no enforcement or rules and ends peacefully. Rare. Much work is done when at peace.
We Three Kings
Yes, I know, the Magi were not kings, and we don’t know their names. I heard a theory that there may have been 100 of them - how would 3 cause such a stir? But I have the bass part of We Three Kings singing away in my head…Merry Christmas
The Other Story
A Christmas - a Messiah-Feast - poem whether we’re broken or whole or both at the same time
Love Me Tender
Somehow was imagining tenderising a large steak…then brain went parabolic, poetically