This just came in from the frontline. I’ve changed some names . . .
Friends
Over the past week I have been building relationship with a new single parent family met while door knocking.
I have just finished praying for mum – Julie – who has nasty ulcers on her arm that have been very slow healing. The [...]
Jay: Let’s turn now to the common characteristics you have found in dynamic movements. I believe the first one is white-hot faith?
Steve: Yes, whenever you see a dynamic Christian movement I see white-hot faith — God’s presence and power equipping people for ministry, transforming their lives. Its not just the experiential side, there’s a deep [...]
Some Wesleyan friends introduced me to John Wesely’s Covenant Prayer.
I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will;
put me to doing, put me to suffering;
let me be employed for you or laid aside for you,
exalted for you or brought low for you;
let me be [...]
Stuart Robinson has stepped down as senior minister at Crossway, our home church. After 25 years he has some other giants to slay.
As a young pioneer missionary Stuart helped spark a church planting movement in Asia that is still going strong. He returned to Australia and built one of the nation’s most significant churches. Now [...]
Sam Metcalf’s post on Demonization and the Power of Jesus reminded me of how “modernist” I’ve become in my behaviour when it comes to confronting evil in people’s lives.
How distant I am from the powerful ministry of Jesus to those who live under the oppression of the enemy.
Power encounter
That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference: God, in his word, greatly insists upon it, that we be good in earnest, “fervent in spirit,” and our hearts vigorously engaged in religion. . .
If we be [...]
Took in a service at St Mary’s in London’s west end this week. They’re gearing up for a launch of their Life Course, an Alpha Course equivalent.
The guy leading the service gets up and says, “Hey there must be hundreds of you out there who have come to know Christ through the course.” I thought [...]
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate,not man. When this age is over, the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary [...]
Anglican church leader and author, David Watson is one of my heroes of the faith. “Fear No Evil” is the personal account of his losing battle with cancer. In January 1984 he flew to California to his friend, John Wimber’s Vineyard church for an intense time of prayer for healing. Experienced teams prayed with him [...]
Trusting in God to meet our needs breaks the power of sin’s promise to make us happier.
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Christ.
John Piper
“The Pleasures of God : Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God”, 247.
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