Prayer inspired by those who are different to us

I watched a recent interview by Desiring God and there was something which struck me towards the end. In the interview the two men talk about the lives and teaching of the Puritans. They explain why the Puritans have something to offer the Church of today. And right at the end, the host asked the …

Be someone worth imitating

I read an article recently which struck a bunch of chords and resonated with some of the principles which I highly value. The article was an excerpt from Bobby Jamieson's recent book: The Path to Being a Pastor. (High up on my Wishlist at the moment!) So what stood out? Our western culture tries to …

Understanding Spiritual Authority

In my thinking recently, I’ve been encouraged to reflect on leaders that I have known or seen in the past, who evidenced Spiritual Authority. (This is part of the Leadership mandate - Hebrews 13:7-8). What did these leaders have in common: 1) Intimacy with Jesus. Probably first and foremost, what attracted me to each of …

Peace – is not dependent on circumstance

I recently came upon a quote that really really annoyed me. I was reading a book about Christian leadership and the author had used a quote from John Wesley. "Though I am always in a haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect …

Trust in the Bible

Following on from yesterday's post, I wanted to share a handful more thoughts and ideas around this concept of trust. Trust is connected to love - we often make trust a separate factor. But the Bible teaches us that 'love always trusts' (1 Corinthians 13:7). This is a risky position to take, do we trust …

Advent #2 Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVvXxreXvwo This talk was given by Sean Alan Page at Alliance Bible Church on Isaiah 9:2-7. Fantastic talk and another great preacher, apparently he works with incarcerated youth as a prison chaplain. I wanted to share three things that stood out to me: Prepare with Prayer...stresses and pressures come, and in many cases we know …

Faith mixed with Revelation

Genesis 6:22 says that Noah did everything just as the Lord commanded him. It’s easy to do some of what God tells us. It’s easy to do everything God tells us, but in a slightly different way. (For example he could have made a slightly bigger boat etc). But the challenge is to do everything, …