@philstokes

husband, dad, granddad | founder leader @TheWellLondon | founder director @London_REACH | @pioneernetwork | leadership coach | occasional blues man | curious

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Forgiveness is not scarce. We tend to think of forgiveness like a finite resource that runs out. The text says the opposite. His forgiveness outlasts our failure by a factor of 250 to 1.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is reunited with the earth through the actions of the child like. God has hidden these things form the wise and intelligent and has revealed them to infants
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It’s easy to miss synergy with another simply due to different vocabulary being used for what is essentially the same thing. Don’t be over precious about language. Rather seek the actual meaning
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The problem for most of those who say they don’t want to live forever because it would be claustrophobic and it’s the finite nature of life that gives it value is that most of them are simply imagining ‘more of the same’
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The eternal life offered by Christ is Quality over Duration: It is defined by the quality and nature of God's own life (expressed in Greek as zoe) rather than just a long timeline of years.
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The Five Vs are a process whereby we start leadership in the right brain with the formation of vision and values, then hand these off to the left brain to form vehicles and vocabulary, and is then hand these back to the right brain to reassess our valuations.
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Gods transcendence (meaning that he is above everything) and his immanence (that he is close to everything and everyone) define his eternal love and strength. That’s not something the human mind can easily grasp. It’s a lifetime project, and if you think you know, then you don’t
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The Bible doesn’t merely contain information about reality; it trains us in a particular way of perceiving reality.
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All the best pursuits of wisdom and knowledge will lead us back to childlike trust
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Is therapeutic deism still a thing? Are we still trying to secularise the sacred rather than acknowledge how much the facts of the universe are stacking up to point to a benevolent creator? Purpose, life, nature and the cosmos. Very good podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…

Understanding The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 27: Ch 27 - Purpose, life, nature of the...

Podcast Episode · The Channel McGilchrist Podcast · 10 March 2025 · 1hr 3min

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#backyard #wildlife
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Well done Wales!
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The Christian identity is the only identity in which your identity is received and not achieved.
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Resistance is not futile .. 🖖🏼
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Phil Stokes retweeted
Alan Hirsch@alanhirschSep 23
Simplify to Multiply: Factoring Reproducibility into the Equation from the Get Go alanhirsch.com/content/artic…

Simplify to Multiply: Factoring Reproducibility into the Equation from the Get Go | Alan Hirsch

The Western church seems to be, to quote Bono, “stuck in a moment, and it can’t get out of it.

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Don’t choose between big church and small church. Build churches that are BigSmall. reachlondon.org/2023/01/bigs…
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“Spirituality for a quantum universe” The universe is not the simple, solid, predictable machine that our everyday consciousness assumes it to be. At its deepest levels, reality is mysterious, relational and resistant to our attempts to grasp and control it…
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Spirituality may therefore involve learning not simply to comprehend reality, but to participate in it, receive it and attend to it. This is more akin to a Christian relational theology.
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Sitting quietly gets you closer.
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What do we have more faith in - our own actions or the power of prayer? Until the balance swings to the latter we remain frustrated and see less than the fruit we otherwise could.
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