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 [...]
The issues raised about the nature of ‘sin’ and in particular the oppression of corporate sin is a discussion that has to go and on. Personal (the flesh), corporate (the world) and principalities and powers (heavenly and earthly) all intersect in this one. And as Cheryl says we cannot avoid it all – oh boy [...]
Been a long time since I have put up a post with the ‘I believe…’ title, so here goes – not a complete statement, nor covering every angle. What is meant by ‘sin’, what do we understand as ‘original sin’, solidarity with Adam and the like? There are ‘laws of life’ that we are 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sound of the Anvil As an introduction just some background on why this is called ‘The Sound of the Anvil’. When I moved into Wales to become a ‘Pastor’ I lived and worked in a ‘church’ in a place called Tonyrefail, just outside the Rhondda Valleys. The name Tonyrefail when translated into English is ‘the [...]
The Amazing Tree The thought for this week began with a Facebook status update from a guy called Malc Garda, it simply said ‘Our tree is amazing-thank heavens for those pagan traditions.’ It caused a little conversation but not the sort of rumble I would expect. A few years ago I would have been one [...]
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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I believe history affects geography
I am glad that the ‘I believe in sin’ raised a few (unresolved) issues. Continuing to try to get to some of the core ‘what I believe’ stuff this one is in some ways related to that earlier post. Some of the same dilemmas arise here as we consider the implications of this belief. There [...]