6 words separate those who merely know about God from those who know Him. Your most important encounter with God starts with faith—that great and unseen force that pulls a man ever forward towards God when reason tells him to stop. It’s the quiet whisper in the dead of night that says, keep going, just keep going… don’t… Read More »
you will keep my commandments. We recently looked at a passage of Scripture in our DBS home group that caught my attention: Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15, ESV). Now, for some (and for me at first), that sounds like a transaction—do this, prove that. But that’s not what’s happening here.… Read More »
Church without signs and wonders, miracles and healings, and the gifts of the Spirit flowing regularly is an oxymoron! Some of my favourite times in John Wimber’s meetings were when he said, “Let’s stand!” That meant it was ‘clinic’ time—where we were not just talking about the ‘stuff’ of signs and wonders but were going to do them!… Read More »
– but they are invaluable “What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.” — 1 Corinthians 3:5–7 The humility in those… Read More »
Something needs to die? When it comes to cake, I can still be greedy. I remember my father bringing a tray of an array of cakes to us as children—four hungry kids eyeing up the best cake on the tray. My brother reached out like lightning for the cream cake, only to be intercepted by my father, who… Read More »
What else it means… Luke 4:18–19 is a dramatic scene—that moment. Jesus, standing in the synagogue, unrolling the scroll, reading words that must have sent a jolt through the room. Good news for the poor. Freedom for the captives. Sight for the blind. Liberation for the oppressed. Sounds like a party political manifesto. He wasn’t just reading Hebrew… Read More »