Make your life count: a year of Adrian’s writing

“One life” how to make yours count: Pro-life for refugees

Making your life count was the theme I started on at the beginning of last year.  Inspired by a movie on the life of Nicky Winton, the focus was questioning why we as Christians tend to sit around talking, and yes blogging about things rather than actually making a difference. Several times in the year I argued we must learn to be pro-life not just for babies in the womb but for all people everywhere.  If you have not watched the film, I encourage you to do so. In many ways this first article set the tone for the rest of my year of writing, and one of the last articles I wrote last year returned to the same theme: Love the Immigrant: This is the Way

What a year 2024 has been. I was able to write a lot more than I did in 2023 which I enjoyed. I hope you also enjoyed the journey with me. I do not believe that Christian Blogs are Dead, and still identify as a blogger. I created with the assistance of AI lists of the Top Personal Christian Blogs and Organisation Blogs.

This was the year I marked a full seven years of my new life dealing with long term sickness and disability.  I hope that my overview of what that has been like was helpful to many, if you missed it, and only want to catch up on one of these posts can I recommend this one: D-Day: Defying Definition by Diagnoses Seven Years On.

D-Day: Defying Definition by Diagnoses Seven Years On

POLITICS AND RELIGION

Politics from a faith perspective has been a major pre-occupation this year for me, and I reacted quite strongly to the assumptions coming out of the USA that you HAVE to be very right wing if you are a Christian.  Here are some of the highlights of this writing from me this year:

Pro-Life Voting: Beyond Anti-Abortion, Protecting All Lives

• Pro-Life Voting: Beyond Anti-Abortion, Protecting All Lives

• Pro-life to the End: Assisted Suicide is not the answer

• Avoiding holocaust attitudes still common today

• The gospels of Marx, capitalism and Jesus

• We are just beggars helping other beggars find bread

• Pro-life to the End: Assisted Suicide is not the answer

• Disabled people: “Just die, will you!”

• Embodied Worship: Corporate Singing and Lives of Service

• UK Election: Political Transition with Dignity and Respect

• UK Health Minister: Cancer Patient, Christian, Gay, Realist

• Trump’s Angry Rhetoric vs. Christian Values: It’s not Normal

• Why Does Trump the Felon Still Have Evangelical Support?

• Kamala vs Trump: Character Really Does Matter

• The Trump Cult is a False Religion Infiltrating the Church

• Trump vs Kamala Harris: Roundup

FAITH AND CHURCH

I also explored some other theological and practical themes. I challenged some of our assumptions in the following posts:

Ten Things Jesus Did NOT Say

• Ten Things Jesus Did NOT Say

• Are you Weary? Come to Jesus! He will give you rest!

• Does God Love Sinners or Does He Only Love Christians?

• How to deal with shame, accusations, and condemnation

• The Jesus Revolution: A Review of the Hippies for Jesus Film

• Calvinism vs Arminianism: Both Wrong but Both Important

• Personal Prophecy: When is it just Your Wishful Thinking?

• Worship: Are Physical Expressions and Emotions Essential?

• Jesus has a home for us: Tim Keller’s Take on Suffering

• God knows about your suffering: Spurgeon on God’s Compassion

• Charles Spurgeon was depressed more frequently than most

• Is your Jesus Strong and Kind? Is He Meek and Majestic?

• Beware the ‘Perfect’ Christian myth. None of us are mature

• Spurgeon: “Faith Doesn’t Save You”

• Keller: Grace Comes Before Faith

• What does justification mean? How can we be forgiven?

• Stott: Reform, Don’t Follow Church Traditions.

• A new Reformation: What The Brethren Restored to the Church

• Why I’ve joined a Grace Baptist church

• Imperfect Churches Reflect God’s Perfect Glory

• What does sweetest frame mean?

• How to Reduce Divorce Stigma in Church

• Christian views on Divorce and Remarriage: A Spectrum

• Barnabas Piper: Pastor’s Kid, Divorcee and Minister

• Russell Brand Baptised a Christian to Leave His Sins Behind

• Is Richard Dawkins about to become a Christian?

THE RESURRECTION

I also shared the content of my first book which will hopefully shortly be re-published as a second edition:

What is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? Receiving Assurance

• Resurrection: Rediscover the Heart of the Gospel

• The Resurrection Appearances: Historical Proof of Jesus

• Resurrection: Fact or Fiction? Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?

• Resurrection Neglected: Without it Good Friday is not Good

• The Importance of Resurrection in the Bible

• Resurrection in the Gospels

• What Did the Resurrection Do for Us? The Sermons of Acts

• Raised For Our Justification: What does Romans 4:25 mean?

• Born Again Through Jesus: The Power of Resurrection

• Transformed by the Resurrection: Sanctification

• Send a Resurrection: Revival in History and Today

• God’s Reviving Word: How the Bible Gives Us Life

• A Relationship with the Risen Jesus: Christian Experience

• What is the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? Receiving Assurance

• Our Mission from the Risen Christ: Evangelism

• Afterlife: Disembodied Spirits or Resurrection Bodies

• Cosmic Renewal: The Resurrection Of All Things

I hope to be able to write more on some of these themes this year.