Have you ever ordered more pizza than you needed? Like me, you probably tried to eat it all because you’d spent the money but also had some tasty cold pizza left over for breakfast the next day.
Blogging through our Song of Solomon series has been a little like this for me: far too much for one or two or even three sittings but tasting better every time I return for more – often after significant indigestion. Continue reading “Song of Solomon: Virginal Wooing”
Six weeks ago, I published a blog that immediately hurtled to the top of our most-read list – a list that’s been around for more than a decade. You can read “Why Every Man Must Step Up His Response to #NotAllMen” HERE.
One of the reasons that it was read so widely – apart from the generous sharing from friends – is that #MeToo and #NotAllMen were trending globally, pointing to the fact that the various digital blows had caused significant ‘feeling’ within both camps who were vehemently defending their respective hashtags.Continue reading “The Apprentice: A Horrible Feminist Hypocrisy”
Pornography is arguably the deadliest cancer in society, addictively destroying true intimacy, relationships, libido, marriages, whole households and warping natural sexual orientation. Continue reading “A New Affection”
A little fresh air and change of scenery up Arthur’s Seat this afternoon!Continue reading “Arthur’s Seat”
We feel like it’s a good thing to honestly review Christian lifestyle. It shouldn’t be an offence to us to do that or to suggest that others do as well.Continue reading “Are You Ready?”
~ I am very dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,
like the curtains of Solomon ~Songs 1:5
Other than all being blokes with varying degrees of sex appeal, what do Dale Winton, Donald Trump and Bradley Cooper all have in common?
They all have terrible fake tans.
Granted, this probably isn’t the most Solomonic introduction I’ll ever write on this blog but one that still has a measure of poignancy for this second instalment in our Song of Solomon series: our obsession with the external appearance of things – the way we look – is one of the most controlling and crippling idols known to man. It leads us to do the craziest of things: gluttony over God; now over forever; prison over mountainous climbs; temporary over eternal; counterfeits over truth and C.S.Lewis’ mud pies over holidays at the sea. It’s been this way since Adam and Eve lurched naked into the undergrowth to break off handfuls of shrubbery with which to conceal their first furtive blushes before God, (Genesis 3).Continue reading “Song of Solomon: The most important verse in the Bible (part two)”
“Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth! For your love is better than wine”
~ Songs 1:2 ~
We all love a kiss even if it’s a TCP-infused kiss from your Grandpa or a hairy peck on the cheek from an old family friend. Kisses can be tolerated and wiped away but kisses can also be like strong, we’re-getting-drunk-very-quickly liqour.Continue reading “Snog of Solomon: Kisses (part one)”
Jack is a young lad who goes to the same gym as us – I guess he must be in his very early twenties – and, very unusually for any bloke in the gym, recently opened up to me while we were stood recovering together next to the leg extension machine.
I’d asked him, “how you doing?” and, rather than giving an off-the-shelf response conveying that nothing in life was even remotely problematic or worrisome, he responded by saying, “I’m doing a bit better now, thanks…”.
What’s going on here then, I wondered.Continue reading “Song of Solomon: When We Don’t Want to Eat (Introduction)”
Mairi was honoured last Sunday morning to take the church through some teaching on prayer and fasting from Matthew 6.
Towards the end of her message she tells a very powerful and personal story that serves as a great example of the importance of our persistence and tenacity in prayer! (see Matthew 7:7 NLT).
Here’s the photo from the very moment she describes.
We hope you guys are encouraged to explore cultivating a lifestyle of prayer and fasting in new ways – and we’d love to hear from you!
Love
N&M
*Please forward to 1 min 50 for the beginning of the visual/audio & apologies that the sound isn’t great.
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