Living Room, Living Conversation This weeks blog takes it’s inspiration from a living room conversation that I had with a great friend Tony John. Tony and Pat are a couple that I love so much, walking paths, pioneering paths, living paths. They knew what it was to walk a more ‘liquid’ expression of church before [...]
The Lord’s Table Growing up in the Assemblies of God tradition one of the first things I was introduced to as a serious Christian was the traditional Sunday morning ‘Breaking of Bread’ service. This was the meeting that all committed Christians had to make a special attempt to get to because of the command to [...]
Dream On. On Tuesday a friend, Karen McCrill Howard, shared a dream with me. That dream meant more to me than I am sure Karen would realise. I found such encouragement in it that I wanted to share it and a few thoughts surrounding it here. Before I go any further here is the dream [...]
Just Saying!!! Funny that when you least expect it something that is said or done does not just cause a ripple but a bit of a tidal wave. On Sunday morning I posted the following status update on Facebook; So many status updates on a Sunday about life changing meetings, messages and ministries. This event [...]
I was interested in reading Paul’s last blog about ‘birds of a feather’, and also while Michele was with us she mentioned a perspective that was very helpful indeed. She said that she heard some time ago the concpet of three types of relationship: relationships for a reason relatationships for a season relationships for a [...]
Flock Together The whole of life seems to be obsessed with tribes and gangs. We find this concept in the Old Testament with the tribes of Israel, we find it in the history of popular music; mods vs. rockers, punks vs. teds, rave vs. rock, and we also find it in church life; baptist, pentecostal, [...]
Some months ago I was talking with an Anglican vicar who has a background in psychology who said to me that the problem with most leaders (he was talking about Christian, but I am sure it is not a specific Christian issue) is that they develop a narcisstic complex, and so it is very hard [...]
Pray for those in authority… who would wish to take that level of responsibility? It is interesting to consider how difficult it is to be a follower of Jesus in the political arena. Opposition is easier than being in power. Sitting on the sidelines is easier than being in power. ‘What’s wrong with this country [...]
Blind Obedience Had some interesting conversations and thoughts this week concerning leadership, obedience without question, respect for position etc, and the realisation of how much spiritual abuse goes on under the banner of the name of Jesus. Was speaking to a friend from a local church that has a very strong ‘apostolic’ (as in carries [...]
Ten years ago I published For such a time as this and for a number of years it has been out of print. I have recently had it re-typed and now have it in ebook format. It tries to be fairhanded looking at how we can interpret the flow of Scripture with respect to women. [...]
January Blues If there is one comment that I have heard or read this past few days that really disturbs me and gets up my nose it is the one, ‘it’s nice to get back to normal.’ Of course the reference is to coming out of the festive period, getting the Christmas decorations down, that [...]
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:
These are in two formats. Epub can be read in many ereaders, such as Ipad, kobo etc.; if using a kindle then the format will be mobi. If there are difficulties in reading the format an internet search should show any peculiarities for your specific ereader
Vol 1.1 Epub format Vol 1.1 Mobi format
Vol 1.2 Epub format Vol 1.2 Mobi format
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Just a thought
Mike Morrell’s blog is always worth a read. In a recent blog he writes about how we can end up so in trouble when we go down the heresy-hunting route, and that being accused of guilt by association is not so bad a thing (even if it hurts!!). With a debt to the German pastor [...]