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                                        this pilgrim's progress: A reason for this hope
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Sunday, 19 August 2007. A reason for this hope. Then God said, 'Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky. and over all the creatures that move along in the ground. - Genesis 1:26. Questions of meaning and purpose. Why are we here? What are we here for? Who are we really? What forms the substance of my faith? 
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        this pilgrim's progress: January 2008
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Sunday, 27 January 2008. Apart from work, it's been hard putting pen to paper of late. Words elude me before I find a moment to put it all down. A rush of thoughts often assail me at the most inopportune time. When I'm brushing my teeth, taking a shower, in the car, slicing up vegetables. So let it be. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). August 22, 2007. God bless our contradictions, those parts of us w...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        this pilgrim's progress: The Write Time
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Sunday, 27 January 2008. Apart from work, it's been hard putting pen to paper of late. Words elude me before I find a moment to put it all down. A rush of thoughts often assail me at the most inopportune time. When I'm brushing my teeth, taking a shower, in the car, slicing up vegetables. So let it be. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). August 22, 2007. God bless our contradictions, those parts...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        this pilgrim's progress: December 2007
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Wednesday, 12 December 2007. Confessions of a Gym Junkie. I am sad and moody, but I won’t be reaching for my runners, singlet top, sweatpants and cap. The idea of spending an evening writing ranks pretty low on my list of what I’d like to do after a busy day in the newsroom. But I plant myself on the couch and type away anyway. There are memories I’ve done well to forget, others that I rem...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        this pilgrim's progress: March 2007
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Tuesday, 27 March 2007. Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."- Genesis 11:4, TNIV. What is this Babel story about? The world, we are told, had one language and a common speech. Dominion, I think, not in the sense of tyrannical worship, but rulership as a garde...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        this pilgrim's progress: Bad Grapes
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Tuesday, 28 August 2007. Do you get it? The Vineyard of God-of-the-Angel-Armies is the country of Israel. All the men and women of Judah are the garden he was so proud of. He looked for a crop of justice and saw them murdering each other. He looked for a harvest of righteousness and heard only the moans of victims. Isaiah 5:7ff, The Message. Mere finger pointing, or bringing the ills of our soci...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        this pilgrim's progress: Confessions of a  Gym Junkie
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Wednesday, 12 December 2007. Confessions of a Gym Junkie. I am sad and moody, but I won’t be reaching for my runners, singlet top, sweatpants and cap. The idea of spending an evening writing ranks pretty low on my list of what I’d like to do after a busy day in the newsroom. But I plant myself on the couch and type away anyway. There are memories I’ve done well to forget, others that I rem...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        this pilgrim's progress: Godspel
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Wednesday, 22 August 2007. 16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith.". Romans 1:16-17, TNIV. Good News. From. The stor...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        this pilgrim's progress: May 2007
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                                        I had always felt life first as a story - and if there is a story there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton. Thursday, 31 May 2007. As good as it gets. There are some things that are simply, priceless. There are exchanges between friends that give away just how well and how how intimately you know each other. This is as good as it gets. The barrage of comments. In the midst of it all, we see beauty rise from the ashes, and we are surprised by joy as we see the first fruits of our labour - the disciplin...