Article by Peter Sholl, http://gotherefor.com. According to some of the junk mail I receive, I am now a bona fide ‘business traveller’, someone who makes multiple work-related trips each year. And what do airlines, hotels and other travel-related organizations want from business travellers? Well, obviously my money, but they would never be so crass as to put it like that. Instead they…
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Article by Hannah Ploegstra, http://gotherefor.com. Leaves are essential to plants. But leaves aren’t fruit. Leaves aren’t what the vinedresser comes looking for. Leaves aren’t what he puts in his basket. Yet, in our Christian lives, I think we often mistake our leaves for fruit. Let’s say, just for the sake of discussion, that our leaves are all the activities we are busy doing for the Lord—going to…
My life is but a weaving, Between my Lord and me, I cannot choose the colours, He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow, And I in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not till the loom is silent, And the shuttles cease to fly, Does God unroll the canvas. And explain the reason why. The…
If we do not learn from history it is certain that we end up repeating it. There are a whole bunch of people who have used this quote. But Henry Ford has a different view. He once commented that ‘history is bunk’. Whilst many of us thought as much when we were labouring to study history at school it was not a…
We live in an age where self-help courses abound. Many of these have to do with our health. How to get fit, how to stay fit, how to minimize our risk of heart attack are just a few. I’m not sure whether I’ve seen a course about “how to have a healthy conscience.” This is so important to our mental health, to…
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend… in fact to come awake. Still more, to remain awake. So wrote C. S. Lewis in his Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.…
As a road crash rescue accredited volunteer in SES (State Emergency Service) I (Rick) have attended a number of serious accidents. I have often been amazed at how people have walked away from a total car wreck and yet I have also been amazed at how fragile life can be. In a world where people die everywhere, everyday, and often in tragic…
I was reading about a New York bus driver who had driven his bus along the same route for years once made a radical decision. He was fed up with running along the same route year after year stopping at the same stops and so one morning he collected his empty bus and drove out of New York City heading for Florida.…
This is final part of a 4 part series, adapted from an article by Larry Taunton (http://www.fixed-point.org/index.php/larrytaunton) on why a growing number of young people in the USA have become atheists by their late teens/early twenties – it is well worth our read. Today we are looking at the final two reasons that drew people towards atheism. The decision to embrace unbelief…
This is part 3 of a 4 part series, adapted from an article by Larry Taunton (http://www.fixed-point.org/index.php/larrytaunton) on why a growing number of young people in the USA have become atheists by their late teens/early twenties – it is well worth our read. Here are the reasons given: They had attended church Most of our participants had not chosen their worldview from…