What is a personal relationship with God? It's not the first time I've been asked the question, but it happened again recently and came from someone who is a believer, which kind of took me by surprise. And yet I suppose it shouldn't take us by surprise, after all God is Spirit and we are … Continue reading What is a Personal Relationship with God?
Category: growth
What’s in a Season?
I grew up in the country, I love seasons, and my what a glorious autumn we have had. As nature has begun slowing down, and begun it's preparation for winter, what colours, contrasts and beauty. No artist can match it. Soon it will be gone and winter will be here. Seasons come and seasons go. … Continue reading What’s in a Season?
Conflict Resolution in the Church
‘I’ll sue’ are popular words today, and there are people out there who are ready to help you do it. We are pestered by telesales people who inform us that we have had an accident or some such thing and more than likely we will be able to get some money out of it. Things … Continue reading Conflict Resolution in the Church
Encountering God – Living and Building by the Wisdom of God
Church can be messy, very messy, it's not perfect. The church at Corinth was such, yes, the church that was birthed by God's grace through the ministry of Paul. They knew the presence and power of the Spirit, they were not lacking in any gift, yet they were also fleshly - behaving like the world from … Continue reading Encountering God – Living and Building by the Wisdom of God
Encountering God in the Church
Church gets a lot of negative press these days, with some saying that they are happy to believe in Jesus but want nothing to do with the church, and others talking about the potential end of it, and yet the church is the big idea of Jesus and what he said he would build, so we … Continue reading Encountering God in the Church
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