Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of [...]
Category Archives: 1. White hot faith
How Jesus gets the job done
30 June, 2010 – 2:25 AM
The main theme of Acts may be the spread of the word, but Jesus is the key player. Jesus is risen and he reigns. His primary agents in forming and growing his church are the word and the Spirit (David Peterson). The risen Lord sends the Spirit (2:33), inspires preachers (7:55-56), calls and commissions his [...]
News from the Front (door)
14 March, 2010 – 8:38 PM
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 [...]
Interview with Jay (2)
16 January, 2010 – 1:10 PM
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 [...]
Wesley’s covenant prayer
19 October, 2008 – 10:53 AM
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 [...]
Just three words
11 May, 2008 – 10:56 AM
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. [...]
Confronting the dark side
4 October, 2006 – 9:10 AM
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
What God requires
24 September, 2006 – 10:51 AM
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 [...]
St Mary’s London: How do they do it?
21 September, 2006 – 6:35 PM
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 [...]
Piper on Mission and Worship
27 August, 2006 – 12:33 PM
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 [...]
