Freedom I used to be a food addict. I love saying that sentence, so please indulge me as I say it again. I used to be a food addict…until Jesus set me free in March 2012. My journey to freedom has taken many years and in that time I’ve learned many … [Continue reading]
The Light and Easy Way of Sanctification or Transformation
I strayed onto an acquaintance’s blog, and started feeling tired. Oh, it was all so bossy, so prescriptive. 10 ways to be a better wife; 10 ways to be a better mum; 10 ways to lose weight in a Biblical way; 10 ways to read more spiritual … [Continue reading]
Starlight (A guest post by Angela Shupe, La Bella Verita)
Sleepless, I walked through the dark to my kitchen to peer out the windows at our backyard meadow cradled by woods. The strain of life had led me to feel things were more chaos than calm. Looking up, I saw the dark night sky speckled with tiny … [Continue reading]
Deliver us from Evil
When I try to pray while walking, or in the car, I use the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6 9-13) to organize my thoughts, and am often astonished again by its richness. Forgiving aught against any as a condition for receiving the Lord’s forgiveness, for … [Continue reading]
On Public Rewards for Private God-Chasing & on Prayer as the Root of a Life
I’ve been to some good church conferences, among them John Arnott’s International Leaders School of Ministry and Paul Miller’s A Praying Life and The Person of Jesus courses. However, the St Andrew’s church weekend away led by Rupert Charkham of Holy … [Continue reading]
There will be “the essence of dogness” in Heaven: C.S. Lewis
Jake, my collie, in a buttercup meadow. ‘And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor … [Continue reading]
Converting a Gray Plot into Wild Spirals of Colour
When the stream of our lives Seems to vanish into desert sands, and we wonder if we've lost our way, When between our talent and output, Between our aspiration and achievement. Falls the shadow, When we … [Continue reading]
In which I resolve not to be afraid
So the disciples row for “three or three and a half miles.” (I love these charming details, John striving to remember accurately, and how they make it easier for us to believe in truth of these memoirs and autobiographical reflections of … [Continue reading]
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