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Okay, so I stand corrected. Without wanting to sound indiscreet, something that happens in public washrooms has bugged me.

Now, we don’t talk about such things, and that’s the problem it turns out. Read more…

“See: everyone loves the idea of compassion until it costs them. We love the idea of love until it comes to unlovable people. We think discipleship is a romantic programmatic workshop of willing people: but it’s actually messy, difficult, heartbreaking, and requires your whole life.

What they also don’t tell you is that it’s awesome. When you’re face to face, chair to chair, eye to eye with a real person, there’s nothing like seeing the lights go on, the lies disentangled, the burden lifted, the problems exposed, the trauma healed, the heart rejoicing — there is absolutely nothing that compares to the pinnacle of God’s glory in one human being discipling another. I mean really discipling them, to just love someone. That click you hear is the something-missing being filled. To love people is what you’re created to do. Once you get there, you can’t go back anymore.”

This article is from JS Park (http://jsparkblog.com/2013/04/01/quote-the-idea/) and I commend his blog to you.

It troubles me that so many people do not have a strong, real, personal sense of the presence of God within them and around them. And I wonder why?

But as I was driving to work this morning at 5 o’clock this insight came. Read more…

Jesus, You overcame the tomb. Let us overcome our own dead-ends. AMEN

Today Easter arrives.

I pray that anyone who reads this will find the life the resurrected Saviour has for you. Read more…