It is sometimes easy to get the impression that following Jesus is an individual pursuit. Presentations of the faith gives the feeling that it’s a one time decision that you make to enjoy the good news and then go to heaven when you die. Those presentations obviously didn’t have Paul in mind when they were […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: For God’s Sake, Grow UpUnity is an interesting concept. Getting it confused with conformity is so subtle and so prevalent whenever there’s an effort to paint unity in the eyes of one person or organisation. So unity in the light of the glorious God who has expressed a love that can never be fathomed fully is a far better […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: OneThis is one of the most stirring prayer requests we come across in scripture. Paul just has the two requests. Strength in the inner being that continues to allow Christ to dwell – courtesy of the tremendous riches of the heavenly Father From the deep base of love get together with saints to truly get […]
Read More Exploring Ephesians: Powerful Prayer Points Part TwoMy favourite day of the week is Thursday. One of my favourite dates in the year is 13th October. So what does God in His wisdom and kindness do in 2016 – give me Thursday 13th October. I am surprised that there are not more fireworks cracking off than ever before for such a great […]
Read More The Brotherly Love That ContinuesThere are plenty of things that occupy the mind and they are all competing for space to take prominence in the mind. People make comments, you read something, there’s something on the radio, someone mentions a tune you love, you receive a message with a link to an article, the reminder tells you that you’re scheduled […]
Read More Making the Most of the CapacityWe were talking as we usually do and he mentioned something about someone being upset that they had not been contacted in a while. That started something off in me that was not going to settle down in a hurry. What was at stake was the very nature of church. For some it’s enough to […]
Read More There’s More To It Than That: Church AgainYesterday my nephew celebrated his birthday. I have two nephews who are great little boys, which is great credit to their parents. So as I thought about my nephew turning a particularly critical age in his childhood development I wanted to put something down in writing to mark the occasion. To My Nephew: Hail sir. […]
Read More Open Blog to My NephewIt’s all the more fascinating reading the things Jesus says to the churches in the early part of Revelation. In as much as those messages were about conditions those churches experienced it still comes across as though Jesus is talking about the conditions that church can be in today. Reading the situation for Ephesus is […]
Read More Gotta Get Back To LoveIn the beginning when God created man it was His plan that man would be made in His image and in His likeness. Man was to reflect God on the earth. Completing the creation of man process, God breathed into the nostrils of man who then became a living being. Later when Jesus returned from […]
Read More Fruit of the Spirit: Love (The Fruit Series 20)True story. I love Stevie Wonder. Also sometimes I come across a song that I have heard on a number of occasions before and it will pop up in my mind and I will give it a thorough going over as I had never previously done. So here I am, for some reason, the Stevie […]
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