I know no-one asked my opinion but.. There’s a kind of slow, almost unperceivable drift that happens in the Church, not with flags waving or heresy shouted from the pulpit, but with a quiet settling of the soul. It’s similar to the subtle way that icons or colours are changed incrementally and imperceptibly on our digital devices. We… Read More »
What are you saying? Becoming a Christian in 1979, in an evangelistic fervour where signs and wonders, healings and miracles were prevalent, accompanied frequently by tongues, either in prayer or in public settings with interpretation, as I did, meant that you inherited a high value of the things of the Spirit. I think we are missing something, especially… Read More »
Informing you above and beyond “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.” — 1 Corinthians 12:1 Paul kicks us off here in a brilliant way, politely telling the Corinthians that he doesn’t want them uninformed! Do you consider yourself well informed or uninformed when it comes to the gifts of the Spirit?… 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 »
I dream a lot. I remember years ago sitting on a busy bus, closing my eyes for “just a moment,” and then dreaming about a man walking up to a field, trying to open the gate but finding he couldn’t do it. Another man came up behind him and pushed it open with one hand. Dreams and visions… Read More »
Miracles! The Bible is replete with accounts of miracles. However, when we come to the Church in Galatia, it not only had a history interwoven with stories of the miraculous, particularly in the ministry of Jesus and the post-Pentecost church, but they were also witnessing miracles in their midst. What miracles they were seeing, we are not told,… Read More »