Category: christian
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what the dickens?
Another ‘ian’ today. Tomorrow I plan to reflect more on yesterday’s awesomeness. Being a Christian is like being Dickensian. Someone or something that is reminiscent of Charles Dickens’ Victorian novels or the characters portrayed within them is described as being Dickensian. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness…
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Citius, Altius, Fortius
Groucho Marx once said, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” That is almost profound! This ‘ian’ is where being a Christian is like being Olympians. I am not like an Olympian because I am going to be running, jumping, throwing or doing anything else in the London 2012 Olympics…
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if music be the food of love…
Another ‘ian’ for you today from the talk I did on ‘What is a Christian?’. Donald MacDonald from the Isle of Skye was admitted to Essex University, and was now living in his first year of residence there. His clan was very excited that one of their own had made it into the upper class…
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we are martian in the light of God
I recently was asked to do a talk on ‘What is a Christian?’ I decided that, among other things, a Christian is like a martian. [pause for effect] [pause longer for the penny to drop] For those who have not quite got the message, it’s not because people think we are weird, have green skin…
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