I think we’ve all been there — we’ve tucked ourselves into bed, the light is off, we might be drifting off to sleep… WHAM. Out of nowhere, we suddenly vividly recall some memory of the highest embarrassment, and lying in the dark, reliving our shame. Everyone has lived through embarrassing […]
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Episode 23 – Book Study : The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis ( Part 2)
Chapters 7 -11 Chapter 8 – PRIDE AND SHAME A female ghost is hiding and is met by another light spirit. The ghost is so preoccupied with focusing on self, and refuses to step out into the light. The light spirit tries to encourage her, assuring her that everyone here […]
Episode 22 – Book Study : The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis ( Part 1)
William Blake’s the marriage of heaven and hell. Lewis doesn’t pit himself against Blake, rather against the attempt to marry heaven and hell, good and evil. He writes of the divorce of heaven and hell. He writes that there is a modern belief (bearing in mind he’s writing in the […]
Speak with Conviction
Doing the right thing is often a fine balance between speaking up and saying nothing at all. For some, both are a real struggle. But for different temperaments, one may be a lot harder than the other. The truth is, both can be valuable virtuous acts; what we need is […]
Episode 20 – What happened at Pentecost?
Reminder: Book Study begins in 2 weeks! In the Acts of the Apostles, we’re reminded that Jesus tells His disciples ‘for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the holy spirit’ Act 1:5. And in John 14:26 we’re told ‘But the counsellor, the Holy […]
Why do fairy tales end at marriage?
There is a reason that fairy tales end with the wedding and it’s not because they ‘lived happily ever after.’ Our journey to matrimony may be full of romance, dancing at balls, chivalric gestures and dreams of a better life but marriage itself is no enchanted existence in a castle […]
7 reasons you should reconsider seeing that virtuous girl
Dating and a life of virtue do not exactly go hand in hand. From the girl’s point of view the story often goes a little like this: You meet a guy and he’s nice. He’s handsome and charming. You agree to go out for coffee or dinner. But you know […]
Episode 17 – Patrons Choice – Friendship with people of different faiths
This is a Patrons choice episode. To what degree do the people we surround ourselves with influence our way of life? Such an important question to ask. (I become the average of the 5 people I spend the most time with) VS the opposite end – having nothing to do […]
Episode 19 – Patrons Choice – Layers of Evangelisation
This is a Patrons choice episode. When we think of evangelisation, most people generally think BIG like ‘Martin Luther King’ level, or Chris Stefanik level, or even becoming a missionary in some third world country. Some people are called to this, but not everyone. Yet, every Christian has been given […]
Episode 18 – Virtue – Temperance – Sobriety
This episode is based on one of the workshops we run on Virtue and Temperance, and we’ll focus today on Sobriety. What is sobriety? We often think it’s only about not being drunk. Like we know we shouldn’t be dancing on the line, so, if we just keep dancing near […]