No pressure. The Apostle Paul must have been an interesting fella to work with. Imagine. Your name’s Timothy, you’ve been hanging around Paul for a few years observing how he does this whole apostolic thing from area to area. You’ve got involved to a degree in some of this work as well. As you did […]
Read More Set An ExampleHave you done your exercises? It’s good for you. Do something to raise your heart rate. Do something to generate mobility in your limbs. Do some push ups, do some squats. Why don’t you get one of those circuits that you can do from the safety of your home. You don’t need all the gym […]
Read More Are You Doing Your Exercises?One of my favourite jokes is the warning a fellow gave to another to be careful of the light at the end of the tunnel as it could be the light belonging to an oncoming train. Light for some is not always a good thing. It can be blinding, its brightness can be overbearing and […]
Read More A Wonderful LightJesus said to His disciples at one point, that the harvest is ripe but the labourers are few and that prayers should be offered for more labourers. The next thing we read is of Jesus sending his disciples to … be the reapers. Be the labourers. I wonder if we would know how to reap. […]
Read More Teach Us How To ReapIf you open box A you win the special star prize. If you open box B you get the booby prize. Booby prize. Back in the day I took that phrase for what it meant – this is the worst ‘prize’ you could attain. You didn’t want the booby prize. It was so bad that […]
Read More What Reward?The fact that we need someone to deliver us is an interesting concept to consider. If we can get ourselves out of whatever tricky predicament we find ourselves in, then deliverance is not required. And we certainly won’t need anyone’s help where that’s concerned. Evidently, however, there are times where we will come into scrapes […]
Read More Deliver UsWhat we did at the beginning was meet and pray. At that time it was just in one of the homes. We’d meet up, have something to eat and drink, talk about life both the subline and the ridiculous. You could really sense the development of relational bonds between us though. We were getting used […]
Read More Returning to the Basic IngredientsIt seems like the appropriate time to ask the question. Things going wrong all around. Inside and out, there doesn’t seem to be anything going right at all. So when all of that is kicking off the question is reasonable: Where is your hope now? Underneath that question is something that suggests that if the […]
Read More Where Is Your Hope Now?“Wait a minute, are you the same guy?” “Yeah, I’m the guy.” “Nah, hold on a minute. You’re like the guy, but he’s usually down there begging and stuff.” “Yeah, that was me.” “What do you mean that was you? That can’t be you. That guy was blind. You clearly are not blind.” “I know, […]
Read More Kingdom Opportunities: Share Your StoryPrisons have a really interesting role to play throughout scripture. From Joseph being imprisoned on false rape allegations to Paul and Silas being imprisoned on false social disruption charges. There’s something about the prison that seems like the environment ripe for Kingdom opportunities. What I tend to get from those prison episodes is not so […]
Read More Kingdom Opportunities: Free in Prison
