We know that God is sovereign, and by that we think that he will intervene in our lives and move and make things happen that need to happen. Our response to this is that we sit back and wait, and wait and wait. We wait for God
Read more →When I was young I enjoyed our family gatherings, meeting my dad’s cousins and hearing the stories they would tell. One of the American cousins, Richard, used to tell stories of days out with his children. They would play the left right game. The two children would
Read more →This came to me in a vision. I literally wrote down what I saw as the Lord led me through what He wanted to show me. I hope you find it helpful. You stand on the beach, and look out at the open sea. You have stood
Read more →I love the fact that there are so many layers of meaning in scripture. There are shadows in the Old Testament that point to realities in the New and there are mysteries in the New that are only understood by looking at the Old. The book of
Read more →On my journey as a believer I have prayed many prayers. One of which is in response to the prayer in Ephesians 1 where Paul prays for a Spirit of wisdom and revelation. I have prayed that the Lord would give me revelation through this word and
Read more →It is the day after the terror attack in Paris, November 14th 2015. As I write there are 120 people dead from bombings and shootings. None of them knew their life was going to end that day. They had not put their affairs in order, they had
Read more →Militant peace is in one sense an oxymoron, yet when understanding the nature of peace you see that it is something that is active and not passive. In Philippians 4v6-7 Pauls encourages us with words that many have committed to heart. “Do not be anxious about anything,
Read more →My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. Song of Solomon 2:14 How many times have I read this and thought
Read more →Sometime I am numb to the news. Bombarded with story after story, atrocity after atrocity, image upon image. What will it take to cut through flack that my heart would be moved? I know this isn’t the case with all of us, and there are many initiatives
Read more →‘You did it to me’ You may have heard these words, they are the words from the Gospel of Matthew and they were used frequently by Mother Teresa during her life, the full passage is at the bottom of this post. When I first heard the words
Read more →But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Matthew 6:33 NASB) Seek first his kingdom….I honestly try to, but the truth is I don’t see a whole lot going on. This however leads me to another question, is
Read more →It is not a lack of company that makes you alone, but it is a lack of those with who you can share your life. It is a lack of those who will listen and to who you can listen to. It is a a product of
Read more →“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. (Isaiah 55:1 NIV) It’s a free lunch. But haven’t you heard that there’s no such thing as
Read more →Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” (John 7:38 ESV) I was recently reading this passage and thinking around what it meant to have rivers of living water flowing out of your heart and the
Read more →I come before the cross in my imagination. I bring my bags, my files of accusations, my memories of wrongs and I leave them their, at the foot of the cross. For though this wooden cross beam is empty, there is power still here. For this is
Read more →The conscience is a strange thing, the dictionary definition is: A person’s moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behaviour: Throughout history man has tried to clean his conscience, absolve himself from guilt and shame. But with little effect. In
Read more →For whatever reason, this memory came back to me today. I must have been 9 years old at the time. It was a beautiful summers evening, the kind of evening you dream about. My elder brother and I were friends with our neighbours, three boys of similar
Read more →On Christmas Eve in 1865, Philip Brooks, a minister of Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia, travelled through the fields from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. He wrote about this journey: “After and early dinner, we took our horses and rode to Bethlehem. It was only about two hours when
Read more →When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Read more →And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.” After hearing the king, they went their way; and the star, which they had
Read more →After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship
Read more →Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had
Read more →Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had
Read more →And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb Luke 2:21 So on the eight day, he was circumcised. The eight day is medically significant because there are
Read more →When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who
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