Our Podcast | From the Temple of Mammon
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The “Into the Pray” podcast lands this week in a new “on the run” vlog-form. Please let us know in the comments section if you like it!
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Episode #2 of these new PodVlogs is from a very busy shopping centre and coffee shop just yesterday on Good Friday, (we resisted the delicious cakes on offer).
Our conversation today followed a meeting that Nick had this week and that once again brought into distressing focus the chaos of the Church. Suffice to say, featuring Jesus’ words in John 8, “Let’s Agree to Disagree” is the demonic inscription chiselled over millennia deeply into our altars of self. But Jesus dismantles all by the blast of His merciful Word…
Continue reading “Our Podcast | From the Temple of Mammon”Jason Upton?
I’ve been asked about my recent quoting of a Jason Upton lyric during a recent prayer and I wanted to respond to that publicly in light of the intimate connections between false doctrine and charismatic worship music/leaders.
I have enjoyed some of Jason’s music over the years and one of his songs ministered to me deeply in 2018 during an important stage of our journey away from compromised churches/thinking. Because I don’t know enough about his wider ministry, or his relational connections, I am not able to endorse him. Truth be told, this issue of worship/music being negatively associated with false doctrine and dodgy leaders/churches is a profound grief to me as I’m sure it is for many of you.
One worship leader who I have corresponded with on this recently and whose music I trust to be “safe” is Aaron Shust.
But we look to the Lord not man.
Shalom, Nick
Our Podcast | From A Beach Cafe
The “Into the Pray” podcast lands this week in a new “on the run” vlog-form. Please let us know in the comments section if you like it!
Episode #1 is from a very blustery Scottish beach in bright sunshine, taking shelter in a warm cafe with excellent coffee, (we resisted the delicious cakes on offer).
Our conversation this week is to get us all to think about the spiritual climate that we’re all living within — ie that the multiplicity of different Christian doctrines and denominations that are tolerated (and even celebrated) equate to nothing other than deep spiritual sickness and spawning false gospels.
We also provide an update regarding my intense work in the background and invite you to support what we can not do on our own.
Maranatha?
Love, Nick & Mairi
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UK Government & Extremism — Reassured?
Off the back of the recent shenanigans in Rochdale, England, with George Galloway, (the guy who grabbed a coffee with Saddam Hussein in the ’90s), this week the British Government released a new definition of “extremism”. But how does this bear on free speech and what of the obvious loopholes in the Government’s “extremism guidelines” document?
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Confronting His People
Filmed this week at the base of the mighty Lochnagar, I’ll let this video do the talking: The LORD God Almighty is confronting His people…
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Why We’ve Stopped Eating McDonald’s & Shopping w/Amazon?
I recently had a significant conversation with a dairy farmer, Edward, while he milked his cows. Edward opened up about the inordinate pressures that he and his family were being put under by the godless government of the land which now means that a bottle of water is more expensive (of more worth) than a bottle of milk. But what does this have to do with eating at McDonald’s and shopping with Amazon?
Do you recognise prophetic censure as well as prophetic promise?
To reach the ultimate heights of the prophetic promises of Yahweh’s redemptive plan for His own glory, the covenant people of God today must urgently recognise that prophetic censure is a non-negotiable part of that realisation.
The presumed innocence of churches and church leaders who boast “sound doctrine” amidst the quagmire of spiritual adultery (any form of idolatry whatsoever) is arguably the greatest obstacle to this eschatological timeline (depth of censure—height of promise) progressing. I fear that, as the chaotic Church today, undeniably mirroring ancient Israel/Judah, we are chronically stalled, falsely secure and spiritually strayed.
The motivation is not to be our sanctification and fruitfulness but, rather, His incomparable worth and glory.
Hear as though for the first time Jeremiah’s anguished outburst to Jerusalem,
“…how long will it be before you are made clean?”
Jeremiah 13:27
Please don’t wrongly assume that this anguished cry of the prophets is at odds with Jesus’ words pronouncing our cleanness of new spiritual birth, (John 15:3). In fact, our obedience in eagerly desiring the gift of prophecy (the testimony of Jesus), as those who have already been made clean by His blood, includes following Christ’s example of anguish for the ultimate prophetic promise of the parousia.
“…within a thawing sense of ultimate spiritual reality coming to eclipse all our eviscerated professionalisms…”
Then, and only then — within a thawing sense of ultimate spiritual reality coming to eclipse all our eviscerated professionalisms — will our true spiritual state emerge in our sobered national psyche. As the LORD bit by bit increases pressure upon His people, as the Church faithful begin to stir in their soiled beds from extreme drunkenness, will there be a determination to hear His shocking rebuke?
The motivation for radical reform will not be our selfish sanctifications and fruitfulnesses, (nor will our desperation for fresh spiritual air suffice), but rather the all-consuming zeal for His incomparable worth and glory.
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