Lines From My Eyes

Another kid's quote - from Lucia (aged 4):

"Daddy - you're joking - I can tell when you are joking because I can see the lines coming out of your eyes!"

Sin More and Still Get to Heaven?

Well, it's taken a long time, but I have finally got around to getting my book to the point where it is ready for release.

The title is "Would you like to SIN MORE and still GET TO HEAVEN? - How to deal with sinful desires and become a more fruitful Christian". See below for more info on what it's about.

At the moment, there are a few ways of getting it...

• You can buy a paperback copy from LULU. The RRP is £9.68, but there is currently a 20% discount on it there, so the actual cost comes to £7.74.


• You can buy a paperback or Kindle copy from Amazon US or Amazon UK.

Here's a brief description of what the book is about:

Many of us have certain sins in our lives that we just can't seem to "shake off". However hard we try, we don't seem to be able to make any progress in overcoming them. This book is about that problem and the Bible's answer to dealing with it (largely based on Paul's letter to the Ephesians).

In the book I look at how a fundamental change to our approach may be the key we are looking for. Instead of "trying to sin less", we should focus on "rooting ourselves" in God's love and "walking in a manner worthy of the calling". I also talk about a number of practical things that we can do in our daily lives to help in the struggle against sin.

If that sounds like something you may be interested in, go ahead and buy a copy :) - I pray that what I have to say will help you in some small way in your Christian walk.

Getting there with the book...

Many moons ago I said that one of the things that I needed to get round to doing was to finish off my book and make it available online.

Well, the good news is that things are moving forward on that front - I've now all but finished publishing it on Lulu - I've just got to wait to receive a proof copy to make sure all is well at which point I'm planning to make it available to download or to buy as a "proper" book.

Jobs

Here's another quote from the kids...

Kathleen (aged 10) is complaining to Mum who has told her that she has to do her morning jobs (chores):

Kathleen: "Why do I have to do jobs - no-one else I know has to do them!"
Mum: "Yes they do."
Kathleen: "Who?"
Sister Lucia (aged 4 1/2) pipes up from nearby: "Me!"

Two things

Two brief comments -

1) Again, I seem to have been silent for quite some time - this is partly because we have changed the meeting structure at the congregation where I meet, so we are not doing formal "sermons" any more (rather shorter contributions from more people - more in line with what's set out in 1 Cor 14) - as a result, we're not currently videoing anything. It's possible that we may move back to videoing the shorter bits and pieces at some point in which case I may be able to start uploading that kind of thing again. However, in the mean time, I should really be uploading other bits and pieces. Slap wrist!

2) There seems to be intermittent problems with Tangle, so the videos posted here don't always actually work. Hopefully this is something that they are dealing with!!

Saved by Grace

The BAD NEWS - we are miserable, sinful failures who spend a huge amount of our time doing things that offend God with occasional imperfect attempts to do things that please Him.

The GOOD NEWS - God loves us so much that He gives us salvation anyway.

Faith

A talk about faith - what it is and what it is all about.