Elijah appears suddenly on the pages of scripture and history with no introduction. His ministry was nothing short of phenomenal and faith-inspiring, and despite the insistence of James that Elijah was, ‘a man just like us’, (James 5:17) you are left wondering what it would have been like if both he and his successor, Elisha, had continued in… Read More »
Do you know what the gospel is all about – do you understand it well? I’m not sure if Einstein actually made the assertion that, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”, but I do know that RC Sproul said something similar suggesting that sometimes the only way that you could fully grasp a… Read More »
There is a massive interest in visions worldwide. Enter the word ‘visions’ on the internet search engine and you will be presented with a staggering 13,600,000 entries. (‘Dreams’ was over 32 million!) ra’ ah A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively. What is it about visions that so impacts the prophetic, what does the Bible say about… Read More »
Our great source of comfort, and something that we have a tendency to forget quickly is the omnipresence of God. He is everywhere, at once, all the time. If you travel to the deepest depths of the oceans, or if you were able to lift a rock on the most distant planet in the universe, He is there.… Read More »
It is a long time since the Church encountered an individual with fiery, burning vision like Wesley, Whitfield, Knox and Edwards. The radical and passionate cry of John Hyde “O God! Give me souls or I die” has long since been registered as one of the ‘brave-heart’ cry of leaders from another century, another time. Significantly, the Pentecostal revival… Read More »
God still uses people with bad character. Character is our commitment to doing the right thing regardless of the personal cost. It’s been said that character is defined by what you do when you think no one is watching. Character involves the will to respond to values, principles and core values, rather than to the huge onslaught of appetites,… Read More »