try different
I wrote last week, “Just (don’t) try harder”. Seth Godin says something similar, and adds, “try different“:
The usual mantra is to ‘try harder’. Trying harder is impossible when you’re already trying as hard as you can.
But you can always try different…
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new blogging
I’ve been doing some work with the person who redesigned this blog. He has been revising my blogging habits with me.
When I started blogging seven years ago I wasn’t writing books. Since then I’ve written a lot of articles and three books. A couple of days ago I mentioned the conception of another book. This More...
Turn aside, and see
Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet More...
Mosque replaces stolen church money
Great story here in the Church Times blog about loving your neighbour.
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Saved for (not from)
I’ve noticed lately that a lot of the language around the idea of salvation revolves around the idea of being saved from something… saved from sin, saved from punishment, saved from isolation or alienation, from sin, from death, from hell.
But really the whole tenor of Christianity and the New Testament is that we are saved More...
Lost and found
Luke 15 : 1-10 tells us two stories about losing something, and then finding it again. A coin, and a sheep. Two things of moderate economic significance, two things that involved considerable effort to find once they were lost. But although they are often told this way, I would say that they are not the More...
writing a book
This week I’ve received some very encouraging mail about my Lent book, which is great to receive in a week when the final edits of my next book have gone off to the publisher. Writing a book is so inspiring and exciting at the beginning, but by the end of it I find my nose More...
just (don’t) try harder
It’s a common misconception that Lent is about self-improvement. Somehow a half-remembered custom of giving things up has been mixed in with our society’s obsession with self-help and self-improvement, so that we’ve blurred the true meaning of the fast into a rather individualistic concept, more like a New Year Resolution to detox or de-clutter.
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underestimate
“All of us underestimate the knowledge that we possess, for although the getting of it may be hard, once it is got, we think it innate, as though we were born with it.”
Rose Tremain, The Colour, p 80
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giving up biscuits
“Lent is supposed to be a time when we review our spiritual life, think again about what it means to be a follower of Christ, reset the compass of our discipleship and prepare ourselves to celebrate the Easter festival. But often we just give up biscuits”
(Stephen Cottrell, I Thirst, p. 12)
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
This title focuses on the importance of understanding who God is - and who he is not. It explores the core Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something.
This book compares and contrasts the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming. It is designed specifically for use in 2007, highlighting links to the Church calendar. It is intended for those wanting daily Bible readings for Advent.
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