Many of us are living too fast, and spinning too many plates, and as we know the faster you go the harder it is to stop, and more importantly SPEED KILLS. What’s true regarding the roads is also true regarding our lives. Speed kills us and our relationships - with God, and with one another. The … Continue reading Slowing Down in Order to Live
Category: Holy Spirit
An Authoritative Word
Picking up on last weeks post if there's one thing this generation doesn't like it's an authoritative word. That was the temptation at the beginning, the enemy putting a doubt into Adam and Eve's mind that questioned the authoritative word of God who had said "You shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge … Continue reading An Authoritative Word
The Promise of Pain
The promise of pain? Sounds a contradiction doesn't it, I mean pain, who wants it? My guess is no-one, yet it's part of life in a fallen world (even saved lives) and therefore everyone one of us experiences it in varying degrees at some time or other. Correspondingly, down through the centuries we have sought … Continue reading The Promise of Pain
Being Fully Alive
The other week I came across a quote from the church father Iraneus that "the glory of God is a human being fully alive." And it struck me, wow that is God's purpose for us in a nutshell. But then I thought, what does it mean, how are we meant to understand it? What is it be fully … Continue reading Being Fully Alive
When the Christian Life is not Working
I've been continuing to think about different aspects of Christian life and growth. On the evangelical spectrum, it can be all about the Word - just believe it, confess it, act on it and everything will be all right. On the charismatic front, it can be all that we need is more of the Spirit … Continue reading When the Christian Life is not Working
The Word 4 Life 