How much congregation is congregational worship? Does it matter? Is this an important point about worship? How we shape the worship liturgy has a lot to do with whether we want the liturgy as “congregational.” That, however, has a sting in it, since liturgy by its nature is God-centred, and…
Hunger aplenty. Many of us who go day by day in hunger, and perhaps also in poverty. Those who have medical, physiological or other needs might choose not to eat, or prefer to fast, perhaps also for a range of additional personal, social, familiar or ideological reasons. Food, shortage of…
Probably, or definitely, that it is baseless to speak about freewill in Leviticus. A very specific, potentially much rarely used, word – “Command” appears in Leviticus 6:9. Here, The Lord said to Moses to “command” Aarons etc. etc. This specific word is rarely used in the Old Testament in so…
Previous The COVID-19 pandemic has put us through long and sometime repeating periods of isolation, not only of self, but with others. Some of these are/were voluntary, others are/were not. With ease of long-distance travelling, it had become relatively “easy” to meet with people. But COVID had put a stop…
Cakes are no good. They are full of sugar, and they bear a much higher degree of attraction that easily negates their sugar content. One of my friends, due to his medical condition, requires very high level of sugar in his body. This he maintains by having regular intake of…
Faithful One, So Unchanging – one of the favourites amongst churches, across various denominations too. It is personal declaration of commmitment to God, faith in him, and speaks in depth of God’s love to us, and our daily walk with him. Here, let’s focus on the music aspect of Faithful…
Previous Pain is something we associate in negative ways. The experience of a person passing away is often described as “painful” for those remaining behind. The person might have also experienced pain in the (very brief) process of passing, and / or that pain is central to a set of…
More regulations, do this, do that, at this time and that time. Some of us spend our days free of appointments, responsibilities, deadlines and “lists”. Others of us are not so, some of them are so busy they don’t have time to rest, mourn or plan. People who have fulfilled…
Why challenge, on what basis? Truth Distinguished from “facts”, truth is universal. Do we know, have and speak of the truth? What about the “good” of life and humanity? Perhaps best summed up in preservation of life in all its scope, and the strive for ethical principles. These should derive…
Previous Following some discussion of the first aspect (see Previous link above), the second aspect of the what little we know of the 1-, 2- and 3-D worlds is that it might be a mis-matched concept after all. As outlined the previous blog, there is so much of an individual…
Previous We “miss” the company of a person when they pass away. Even though the presently felt “miss” of the person is not as great as if the passing was sudden, tragic and / or full of pain, no avenues or means could prepare us to realise that the passing…
A misstep is an inconvenient. A miss of whichever means and whatever kind is probably not much or of nil effect until it gets personal. That is me-centric to the core and outright selfish. Example Think of an exam you prepared so much for, and missed it on some…
