Category Archives: Personal Perspectives

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 [...]

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The Traveller’s Rest- Lead Me Not Into Temptation.

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 [...]

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A few reflections – well only one

So a very short post while here in Romania. Had a great day seeing what is being done on the ground. Oh my!!! Working with the poor, helping them get established with food-growing that can feed a family for 6 months of the year from their own greenhouse. And that is just the beginning. I [...]

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No fear of change

France has a new president elect. If we can lay the rights and wrongs of socialism / capitalism on one side (and actually the socialism of Hollande is probably not very left at all) the election marks a shift in Europe. And by this I do not mean a simple shift of to the left [...]

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The Traveller’s Rest- Loose Cannon or Chained to a Cannonball.

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 [...]

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The Traveller’s Rest- 1 + 1 = 3.

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 [...]

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Iceland: leading the way?

I have been very interested in Iceland and how it will navigate its future partly as I had a waking vision of ice covering Europe and then a few weeks later the volcanic ash covered Europe from Iceland. I saw Europe – stretching into Russia, covering also the southern states down to the Black Sea, [...]

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The Traveller’s Rest- I’m not lost, just finding my way.

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. [...]

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The Traveller’s Rest- Small is Beautiful.

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 [...]

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Future change

I would normally put a link to another article as a short post in the sidebar, but I consider these two articles too important to leave there. All the comments in the articles do not need to be agreed with, but it is the overall challenge that is important to grapple with (thanks to Cheryl [...]

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The Traveller’s Rest- Believing Unbelievers.

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 [...]

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The Traveller’s Rest- Flippin’ Ekk’.

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 [...]

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Recent magazine comments

The 'Gates' of society

Gates

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:

  • Arts & entertainment
  • Business, commerce & trade
  • Education & training
  • Family & community
  • Health, science & technology
  • Media & communication
  • Politics, government, law & order

Download in epub/mobi

E-formatting

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

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Vol 1.3 Epub format   Vol 1.3 Mobi format

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