A happy new year to you all! So what about 2016, should I, should you, make new year resolutions? Are they really worth it? At one time I would have said no they are not, but these days I'm thinking differently. You see it all depends whether they are centred in and dependent on yourself … Continue reading New Year Resolutions?
Category: Holy Spirit
What is a Personal Relationship with God?
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?
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
Living Loved
Love is frequently viewed as something that is earned - do well, respond to me in the right way and I will love you. Frequently that is pushed over onto God, and so people both non-Christian and Christian ending up trying to earn the love of God. But that's not how the Bible tells it. … Continue reading Living Loved
Encountering the Father’s Embrace
Many know in their heads that God is love, that he loves them, but fail to experience what that really means. Because of negative or bad human experiences of 'father' they cannot understand or fully realise Father God's embrace of his children. Perhaps their experience was performance oriented, passive - present but indifferent, authoritarian, abusive, … Continue reading Encountering the Father’s Embrace
The Word 4 Life 