Mundane Mourning. Have you ever found yourself feeling the pressure of the mundane? Having one of those days when where you are just doesn’t seem to be enough? There have been some nights lately on my shifts where I’ve been thinking to myself ‘I just don’t want to do this anymore.’ On those nights when [...]
Blind Accusation. It is amazing how people (and when I say people that is inclusive of myself) so quickly jump to conclusions about others and draw up a list of assumptions. Assumptions drawn from a total lack of understanding of a persons situation and through nil relationship. One of those accusations that gets thrown in [...]
Hymns for the Rest of Us “When I attend services, I go to the Episcopal Church. I like the creeds and prayers, and the fact that they truly mean it when they say all are welcome. Yet, my faith in Christ has moved me away from the organization we call “the Church,” and into what [...]
Finding Liberty. On Saturday I had one of my normal car journeys. My son wanted to go to Swansea City football Liberty Stadium to watch their match against Blackburn. Having travelled there to see my team Queens Park Rangers (no sniggering at the back please!!!) on Boxing Day I confidently and theoretically knew my way. [...]
The Year of the Ratz. Who would have believed that one of the most prophetic statements of 2012 so far would come from the head of the Roman Catholic Church? I suppose only us people that think that God only speaks through a certain type of prophet. People who have much smaller vision of the [...]
Pray…no longer a four letter word. Here in the U.K. the story of Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba has been shocking, heartbreaking, full of hope and full of faith. Muamba collapsed during a football game with a heart attack at age 23. After literally dying on the pitch the game was abandoned as the medical profession [...]
Is there a letter, a letter for me? The problem we have with the Bible is that because it primarily gets used for preaching and teaching it ends up as nothing more than a text book. Something we use to get a train of thought or doctrine or facts on a certain theological subject. Then [...]
Under a cloud This past Sunday here in the U.K. we just had Mother’s Day. For the past few years it has been a bit of a difficult day since losing my Mum to cancer seven years ago. It brings back memories of her and the loss experienced in m life. My mum was not [...]
Pioneer- 1)One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed territory to settle. 2)One who opens up new areas of thought, research, or development. 3)Leading the way; trailblazing. 4)To open up (an area) or prepare (a way). 5) an innovator or developer of something new. 6)a person who goes to a new, often uninhabited or uncivilized (part [...]
Clock Struck Thrice I always sit up and take notice when something seems to crop up on more than one occasion in a short period of time. A bit like in Scripture when a word is written more than once, i.e. holy, holy, holy, it does not necessarily mean it was said three times but [...]
“Change will have to come from outside, from the margins. The desert, not the temple, gave us the prophets.” Wendell Berry Where do I stand? I totally love this quote that I read this week. There is a sense in so many that there is the cry coming from the margins. I have blogged before [...]
Much of the material that will be central to these posts will cover perspectives on the 'gates' of society, the places of influence that shape the culture. If transformation is a desired outcome, such aspects as strategic prayer and understanding the redemptive gifts of places will play their part. As prayer opens up space, filling it will be vital, not in a controlling, top-down sense, but with a servant spirit. Finding appropriate terminology is difficult. Maybe 'transformation' is not the right term, perhaps 'transfiguration', where inner qualities burst through.
I have chosen to use the term 'gates' and although they can be defined any number of ways these are the seven ways I have chosen to group them by:
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The Traveller’s Rest- Am I Still A Charismaniac?
The Gift Man I come from a Pentecostal/charismatic background. That means right from the foundation of my Christian walk the importance, and sometimes obsession, of gifts was right at the fore. To become a fully fledged Pentecostal I had to get baptised in the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues, that great unknown, untaught, supernaturally [...]