What you can and can’t roll away. Easter is just over our shoulders. The tomb is still fresh in the imagination, the pre-dawn silence, the women moving through the early morning light with spices in their hands, braced for grief and tears. They had come to do something. Something tender and necessary. Something that, as it turned out,… Read More »
The moment it happened Britain’s Got Talent – it’s that time of year again! In case you don’t know it the overview is simple. Four judges. A stage. Thousands of acts who have been practising in living rooms and community halls for years, hoping this is the moment. And a fair number of acts that are not from… Read More »
Fully trained and capable? I’m always intrigued as to how the disciples felt ministering alongside Jesus. Noone seemed to be saying, “Jesus, I’ve got it!” Over in Luke 10, Jesus sends out seventy-two people. Not just the Twelve or even the the inner circle. Seventy-two ordinary followers who have seen Jesus ‘do His stuff’, sent ahead of him… Read More »
Do you have a good excuse? Paul wrote Romans 7 as a cry of anguish but sometimes I wonder if we have turned it into a ‘permission slip’. Somewhere between the writing and the reading, one of the most transparent, vulnerable and honest passages in Scripture became the most theologically ‘convenient’. A heart-felt confession became a comfort blanket.… Read More »
Have a different spirit. It’s not something I imagine you read often, but the text in Numbers 14 is worth thinking about a few times today. Turn your bible app to Numbers; Caleb and Joshua have returned from the same land as the other ten men sent to spy out the land, but what do Caleb and Joshua… Read More »
more than taking a risk. I’m one of the dwindling number of Christians who met and sat under the ministry of John Wimber prior to his death in 1997. One of the things many remember him saying during his ministry of stirring the body of Christ in signs and wonders was that Faith is spelled ‘R-I-S-K’. As a… Read More »