I woke up with a strange dream this morning. I was standing in front of someone I knew as was both a pastor and a trainer. We were both in a church not dissimilar to a church that we were both associated with. This man was speaking gently to me. I was told that I
What is a history maker?
These are people who are remembered years, decades even centuries after they have departed this earth. It could be you if you do things that are remembered by those whose lives you have touched, not just family and friends. Such people are the ones whose story is told in history books or in interviews that others do. There
The problem with ditching tried and tested ideas
Often we see the downside of something but take the upside for granted. There are few things that do not have both an upside and a downside. It is so easy to compare disadvantages and forget to look at the advantages. What was the old way of thinking? Let’s look at an example that affects
The future of the wicked is…
On the surface this seems a fairly simple comparison. It is fairly obvious what the contrast of the wicked and upright is. The classic idea of the wicked is the person who uses black hat methods and is unethical even cruel. Compare this to the upright person who wears the white hat and is moral
John Wesley and money
imagine having someone in your church who was more concerned to see new churches being built than to make sure that they had meat for lunch. Someone who lived on vegetables and the sort of food that food that those living below what we call the poverty line would have. Someone who considered it a
Are they allies or not?
Ever been in the situation where something you have read has impacted you so much that it seemed that it set off an earthquake, and even a set off a series of aftershocks. That is what the idea about allies that Jeremiah writes about in ancient wisdom has been to me. Everywhere I look I