Consider Yourself at Home
Jesus… looked at the people sitting around him and said, “Look! Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does what God wants is my brother, my sister, my mother.” Mark 3:33-35 (GNT) ‘Consider...
View ArticleLent: As the Father has Loved
‘1968. Jerusalem. Brother Andrew had spent a decade visiting the church in Communist lands. He had built a team to help him. But the success of God’s Smuggler meant he was now too well known and could...
View ArticleReblog – Context swap: helping others to see how their attitude offends
Originally posted on Laura Droege's blog:Recently, controversial Christian preacher Douglas Wilson took issue with women who disagreed with him. (You can read a fuller version of the story on Tim...
View ArticleNeeded Time
I’m off to my EMDR session tomorrow, with the full intention of trying to ‘let go’. My friend is in labour with her first baby. My parents are flying back to Europe this week from America. The children...
View ArticleFar Away and Close at Hand
CHIBOK GIRLS MISSING FOR OVER A YEAR The girls abducted from a school in Chibok have now been missing for one year and three days. For their parents who continue to hope and pray for their return, it...
View Article‘A Call to Action’
As everyone knows, young people are bombarded with normalised violence through highly realistic video games that take the player through many hours of simulated combat and criminal behaviour. In...
View ArticleThe Kingdom of God Expressed Through Community
As I was listening to Luke 14, I was thinking about the means by which the representation of love expresses itself. In other words how we, as followers of Jesus, manifest His presence to those around...
View ArticleA Pure Love of God
‘…all of these experiences and insights lead us to a pure love of God… We are not to retreat from society… Our experience of love propels us into the world in order to accomplish God’s work. Every...
View ArticleCourage isn’t courage unless you’re afraid
Courage is not courage unless you’re afraid. Courage is being afraid, but trying anyway. Have you ever been afraid? I have. A lot. It left me scarred. Ann Voskamp has a post today entitled ‘When loving...
View ArticleWHAT IS FAITH?
…the Christian world must ever thank Martin Luther for his courage and persistence in recovering Paul and the Gospel for the Western ‘can do’ world. The only problem is that it devolved into our modern...
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