At the moment there is a lot of discussion going on about the nature of temptation and desire. Is it right or wrong to feel something? Is the thought itself sin? Christians have wrestled with such things since the birth of the church, and it can get you into a right mess - it did … Continue reading TEMPTATION AND DESIRE
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The Ascension – the Forgotten Event
We make a lot of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost, but sadly the Ascension takes a back seat. Yet without the Ascension we have an incomplete gospel, and an uncertain hope. In the ascension we see the continuing life and victory of Jesus, without it we would have to assume that he died a second time. … Continue reading The Ascension – the Forgotten Event
Let go and let God? The danger of passivity
One of the tricks of the enemy is to get us to yield to passivity, to just 'let go and let God,' and he'll sort you or it out. It sounds very spiritual, I don't do anything, God does it, yet that is a complete distortion of what Paul and the other writers say regarding … Continue reading Let go and let God? The danger of passivity