We like to be the centre of attention. We like to be the big deal. We want people to take notice of us, and be impressed. (Don’t believe me? Just take a look at Facebook…) Even in worship some of us like to be the guy or girl who is up there at the front […]
Category: Life
Happy new year
“For he chose us from the beginning” Ephesians 1:11 It is the start of a new year. A fresh start. A blank page. Maybe you feel tired. Maybe you are weary. You have walked these roads many times, you’ve been here before. New year, fresh intentions, ending up in failure. You wanted to do better, but […]
Jumping to conclusions
I have a friend who wanted to remain anonymous (let’s call her Girl A), who I have a bit of a friendly rivalry with. It may or may not have started when I removed her clothes from a tumble dryer to put mine in while hers were still slightly damp. (But I made that up […]
Who do you think you are
{Carrying on our recent trend of introducing new contributors, today’s devotional thoughts come from Sam Wells, a medical student and part-time farmer from Moira} So maybe you don’t go around breaking people’s hearts but sometimes it can still be good to ask ourselves the question ‘Who am I?’ This is questioning our identity and our […]
Coals
{Time to introduce another new All4God contributor – Caleb Ames, who I have worked with for the past couple of summers at Beaver Cross . Caleb is passionate about following God, and he is very into country music, but I don’t hold that against him…} This summer bought up a good point and a very […]
John Mayer – Mean Bastard
Over the summer while I was working at Beaver Cross Camp there was a daily session of Christian teaching for the campers led by a minister, Father Tyler. Father Tyler isn’t your typical boring, grey haired, slightly out of touch stereotypical minister. He is a sport fanatic with the best baseball hit I have ever […]
Rise
As I’ve mentioned once or twice I spend my summers working as a counsellor at a Christian youth camp in New York. And as part of that every day we had a couple of worship sessions. One evening this summer as that was going on the worship leader Shannon instructed us to just close our […]
Leaving 99
I get discouraged easily. When I post something up on All4God and nobody comments on it or ‘likes’ it on Facebook I start to wonder if anyone has read it, if it has made an impact, if it was worth my time. And when I look at the number of comments on articles on other […]
You could have had it all
You may know the story of Jacob and Esau – they were twin brothers of Issac and Rebekah. Esau was the older twin and so under the inheritance rules of the day was entitled to a birthright and a special blessing from his father. He was set to have a great inheritance and be part […]
Building a name for who?
“Then they said “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world” Genesis 11:4 It had been going relatively well. Mankind had recovered from the flood, the people were living together in Babylon, and […]