May 2009
5 posts
Stealing the inheritance
Matthew 21
33 Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. 35 The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another,...
The flat
I did not write anything around Easter this year. I really wanted to but I had nothing to say. I expected a mountain top experience, not for any other particular reason, it had just been the case for many previous Easters, so I just assumed. God always has something to kick me up the bum about and Easter is as good a time as any to do it. This year however there was nothing.
Initially I...
Self Discovery
The older you get the less you know. This is not technically correct, you do actually know more. You realise however that there is so much more to know. Relatively speaking you feel like you know less. Anyway sometimes you have a moment, an epiphany if you will, where by the grace of God you actually learn something which does not lead to more questions but actually makes you feel like you know...
April 2009
2 posts
Dense Mediums
“TOBY: It’s called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites and now you end with the one that’s not like the others. Ready?… SACHS: God, Toby… Wouldn’t it be great if there was someone around here with communication skills who could go in there and tell them that?” - The West Wing: Somebody’s Going To Emergency, Somebody’s Going To...