Author Archives: firebrandnotes

15 Lessons From My Social Media Sabbatical

Facebook/Twitter/Instagram are not worthy of more than a little of my time. Always bless those who persecute & don’t curse (lash back at) them in response. (Romans 12:14). Sharing compulsively via social media is a huge enemy of prayer. Speaking/writing remains absolutely essential. (Jeremiah 20:9). Expect misunderstanding and judgment especially from nominal, lukewarm, denominationally-blinkered Christians.Continue reading “15 Lessons From My Social Media Sabbatical”

Earthly Use

They talk about being “so heavenly minded to be of no earthly use”. I’d like to smash this myth… …the inference of this statement is that thinking outside the supernatural order and realm of things has a limited shelf life (a little is OK but a lot isn’t) but this isn’t quite the point: EvenContinue reading “Earthly Use”

Yearn

Give me a man in love; he knows what I mean.  Give me one who yearns; give me one who is hungry; give me one far away in this desert, who is thirsty and sighs for the spring of the Eternal country.  Give me that sort of man; he knows what I mean.  But ifContinue reading “Yearn”

Joy Misunderstood

The Bothy Sessions are, in part, an autobiographical commentary regarding part of my pursuit of Jesus for the last thirty years. It has been (and is) a pursuit that is both deleriously joyful and deeply depressing.

Maugrim & The Secret Scottish Police

I had just got out of a taxi outside Newcastle train station and I was burning with the Holy Spirit of God.