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When I ask people to think why they don’t invite their friends, there are twelve common reasons. But most people come up with a reason that is linked to something in their past. Most people have confused remembering with thinking. In the past they have never been able to do something and so they remember […]
One of Lord of the Rings most endearing characters is Gimli. He is always prepared for a battle, one of his famous quotes is “Certainty of death, small chance of success- what are we waiting for?” My own quote for creating a culture of invitation in your church would be, ‘certainty of rejection, small chance […]
Motorolla the phone company coined the term ‘micro-boredom’, the little snatches of time which to the modern mind are insufferable, such as waiting in line at the supermarket or sitting in traffic. These could be times of lovely delicious idleness of opportunity for attentiveness to the presence of God. How bad is it getting that we are […]
When you try not to feel the negative in your life, you end up not feeling the positive. There is nothing meaningful or pleasurable if you take away pain. We fear the negative pain of rejection the fear of being scrutinised and evaluated. But if we don’t experience rejection, scrutiny and evaluation we don’t get […]
A minority may dislike you but nobody ever achieved great success or pushed the boundaries to innovate change with a 100 percent approval rating Not the Apostle Paul, not John the Baptist and in our recent generations, not Mandela not Gandhi not Martin Luther King. Jesus did not have 100 percent approval, the crowd shouted […]
The Psalms show a variety of emotions written down for our help today. They include Joy Abandonment (feeling alone), Fear, Gratitude (being thankful), Anger, Contentment, Depression (giving up all hope), Disappointment, Uncertainty, Restless, Outrage (over an injustice), Praise. The Psalms are adept and precise in labeling feelings. Perhaps we should follow the example of Psalmists […]
Stars are born and then they die so we could live. Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our bodies, as well as atoms of all other heavy elements, were created in previous generations of stars. Stars go through the same process that we do in the sense that they are born, live, and then die. […]
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