WIWO: Ephesians – Episode 07: Prayer for Inner Strength

Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 Context: Why does Paul emphasise praying to “the Father from whom every family… derives its name”? Prayers to God are vast enterprises, even as God is vast. The aspect of God that we refer to in prayer gives a great indication of what we’re saying is important in this prayer. The first […]

Dryden Shorts – Set Apart For …

Barnabas and Saul: Set apart for God. The church in Antioch featured a group of prophets and teachers. As they gathered to fast and pray, the Holy Spirit spoke to them about Barnabas and Saul. What was said wasn’t totally new to either Barnabas or Saul. What was said to them, however, was crucial for […]

WIWO: Ephesians – Episode 03: Paul’s Prayer for Wisdom

Reading: Ephesians 1:15-23 Context: What prompted Paul to pray this prayer for the Ephesians? News reached a prison cell, and it turned straight into prayer. Paul opens with for this reason — pointing back to a report about the Ephesians: their faith in the Lord Jesus, their love for all the saints (v.15). This good […]

WIWO: Ephesians – Episode 01: Book Overview

Context: Ephesians – Who Wrote It, When, and Why It Matters Paul identifies himself as the author twice in the text (1:1, 3:1), and the early church overwhelmingly accepted his authorship. Paul wrote Ephesians from house arrest in Rome, somewhere around AD 60 to 62, making it one of four so-called “prison epistles” alongside Philippians, […]

KMCD 23: Mission, Partnership and the Kingsman

Previously, we explored what partnership means for the Kingsman — built around purpose, honest in contribution, humble in interdependence, and sustained by covenant rather than contract. Those four principles were drawn from the breadth of Scripture. But there is one passage that puts all of it in motion. One account where you see what those […]

KMCD 20: Depth of Fellowship and The Kingsman

There’s a word that gets used so often in Christian circles that it has almost lost its edge. Fellowship. We say it after the service. We name rooms after it. We schedule it into the diary. But I’ve been in enough of those rooms and enough of those schedules to know that what we call […]

Dryden Shorts – Creativity

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He made man in His image with the capacity to have dominion and rule in righteousness. Although man rebelled, there are clearly expressions of man’s capacity to express creativity and imagination that bring out the best in what God created. Wherever it is expressed – […]

KMCD 18: The Kingsman as a Good Host

Hosting well is something we’re not naturally equipped for. That might seem a strange thing to say. Most of us would consider ourselves reasonably welcoming people. We hold the door. We smile when someone new walks in. We’re not deliberately cold or unkind. But there’s a significant difference between not being hostile and actually being […]

KMCD 17: Hope, The Fellowship and the Kingsman

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” Romans 15:13 (ESV) There is a word that gets worn smooth with use, until it barely means anything at all. Hope. We say it lightly — […]

KMCD 16: The Gift, The Fellowship and the Kingsman

This is based on reading 1 Peter 4:10-11 The Function of Fellowship: Gifted to Serve “As each has received a gift.” Not some. Not those with theological training. Not the ones who have been walking with Jesus the longest, or the ones who seem the most naturally talented, or the ones in any kind of […]