FIVE: Master of YOUR universe We made it, the final blog. Thank you for joining me on this journey, I wanted to finish this series with a simple invite. We started by exploring who Jesus claimed to be, set against his statement that all authority on earth and in heaven was his, ie him being […]
FOUR: Master of the spiritual universe OK, so I said last week that I wanted to separate the supernatural universe from the spiritual one, and this is why. Jesus deals with something called sin, and this is so important that it needed a blog on its own. In this series I have wanted to show […]
THREE: Master of the supernatural universe I want to reflect a bit in this blog about how Jesus was master of the supernatural universe. I will deal specifically with the ‘spiritual’ universe in the next blog, (ie sin), so this is about the supernatural. I grew up in the UK and to be totally honest, […]
TWO: Master of the natural universe I remember watching the news in 2004 after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake rocked the earth resulting in a massive tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in fourteen different countries. The videos that gradually emerged of this tsunami were utterly horrifying, the speed and ferocity of the wave brought […]
I grew up watching plenty of cartoons, and the best, by far was He Man, Master of the Universe. I am sure you know exactly who I am on about, but just in case you don’t, He Man was amazing. Muscles on muscles, a beautiful mop of golden hair in a mullet, and a spandex […]
This time last year, my wife and I were adjusting to life as new parents. We had gone on the epic journey that is adoption and we were discovering what it felt like to be the proud parents of a 2 year old boy. Now one year on, I have been reflecting on this journey […]
How do you get men in retreat? Ask them to join the quilt group; teach children’s Sunday School; or bake a quiche maybe? Seriously, I was thinking more of a spiritual retreat. Every year in Spring, our Dutch church is a guest of a church in Surry at their men’s retreat. It’s a wonderful time […]
‘What are you here for?’ or ‘How do you imagine God?’ are the possible open- ended questions that my ‘spiritual director’ asks me. I have been going to see him about three times a year for about five years. I always leave him challenged and encouraged. Sometimes the challenges are very practical such as ‘How […]
“…so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands. But he told neither his father or his mother what he had done.” (Judges 14:6) Carl Beech went Dutch in April and the men at Redeemer Church in The Hague were the beneficiaries of his challenging message on Money, Power and Sex (or […]
I have tiny balls. Literally. I wasn’t aware of this incredibly affirming fact until I was examined by a urologist as part of our fertility investigations. I knew that I had been born with undescended testicles and that the local hospital could only find one of them. I knew that I had spent a lot […]
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