Church Life: Say It and See It

There is the old television Catchphrase based on the premise that contestants watch an animated enaction of a famous catchphrase and they say what they see. I sat in a church service recently where there was talk about wanting to see the Holy Spirit in action in the lives of people bringing deliverance to support […]

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Who Are You Trying To Impress?

I was reading a book, as is me habit, and I read the notes on the author. It’s not the first time I’ve read about an author and their various works, but on this occasion something really stood out about the list of responsibilities and achievements.  There was something in it that struck me. I […]

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What Are You Bound By?

I was bound to write this blog entry!  (Let me get that out of my system from now.) A good friend of mine shared something in a message about a trend seen in the experience of members of church in a locality.  They seemed to shift away from seeing their homes as centres for hospitality […]

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Would I Dare To Be A Daniel?

The question with which I finished a recent entry asked myself the serious question – would I dare to be a Daniel? It would be easy to fall into extremes of the confident ‘yes of course I would, I would do it for Jesus’ or the defeated ‘maybe I’m too weak to risk those that […]

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Dare To Be A Daniel Ellsberg?

Recently I watched a documentary called The Most Dangerous Man in America. This gave an insight into what Daniel Ellsberg did to release what is known as the Pentagon Papers, a top secret government document that gave startling revelations of the relations America had with Vietnam. The scandal arose around the significant discrepancies between public […]

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