During times of corporate or private worship, song-writing, prayer and even rehearsals, I’m always on the look-out for ‘grace notes’. I’m on the look out for them because they are keys for moments when it’s as if there is a special deposit of anointing available, His presence, for the purpose of the moment that is unfolding.Continue reading “Grace Notes”
Taken In
One of the Bible’s highlights for me is Psalm 27 – it contains some the most beautiful verses anywhere in its pages. I’m thinking of sweeping, lyrical crescendos like verse 4, “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”
Another verse that stuns me, particularly because of the brokenness I constantly see in society where families Continue reading “Taken In”
Ron Burgundy and Baxter promo The Presence Project
If you missed the recent release of The Presence Project, here’s a taster….
Watch the real thing here
Presenting The Presence Project
The Presence Project is the brand new worship project from Firebrand Notes that has been conceived and born from a desire to get real, talk about our experience of the Presence of God and consider how we are really seeking Him in the hope of being deeply aware of Him in our lives. He promises to draw near to those who draw near to Him. He loves you insatiably!
I hope you’re inspired and encouraged to seek God in new ways and to know the joy of intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ – you can listen to the full Presence track here
Nick Franks
Divine Immanence
Ahead of the release of the fbn2 Presence Project next week, here are some potentially life-changing bullet points and excerpts for you from A W Tozer’s The Pursuit of God and the chapter The Universal Presence. I pray that they would whet your appetite and bless your relationship with God.
MTC Aug 2013 – Days 3-5
This is such a refreshing emphasis that I had to reblog. Let all that we do to serve Jesus be rooted in the knowledge that He is coming again and that He is indeed en route as we pray now. Let the Spirit and the bride say ‘come, Lord Jesus’ – Amen
What really struck me from the last few days of the ministry training course last week was the emphasis that came out on the future, eternity, our great Hope.
I’d never noticed what Fidel brought home so powerfully from 2 Tim. 4:1-2 that the number one reason to preach the word is the return of Christ. We are preaching in the last days a gospel of eternal life in view of the coming Day (cf. 2 Tim. 1:1, 10, 18; 2:10; 3:1; 4:8).
We found that the reason to put to death our ungodly desires (Col. 3:5) is because Christ, who is our life, is about to appear and we will be glorified with him (Col. 3:4).
Sammy reminded us from Job that the end comes at the end, and in the same session one of the apprentices very movingly shared how she had been through times when…
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Epic Love Photos
About a year ago, Mairi and I had our engagement photo shoot with one of the most creative and darn talented photographers you will ever come across – he happens to be a personal friend – but he is epically creative and darn talented! Rob and Hannah Dight run Epic Love Photography from their home in Northern Ireland and are responsible for a lot of the photography over the last few months on fbn2. If you are interested in any wedding/romantic/alternative family photography drop them a line! You can follow them on twitter @epiclovephotos –
fbn2 logo design
It’s nearly September and, thanks to the generous efforts of the very talented @rwbrowne, @FirebrandNotes has a new logo and some rather cool art work. Smiley face.
Capture
For those of you who haven’t come across any of C.S.Lewis’ short essays, may I introduce you to arguably his best – The Weight of Glory
The essay contains some delicious thinking and expression about ‘glory’ and heaven and touches the beginnings of articulation around those things in us that words can not express. (Romans 8:26).
Having read the essay a few times over the last few years, there is one recurring thought from it that often crops up for me when I feel these deep places in my soul stirred by nature, my wife, family and friends, or by the presence of Christ.
Fitness Blender and Injury Fix
If you love your exercise and would benefit from some low-cost and free resources to help you in this new season, here are a couple of paragraphs plugging two of the best resources that I have discovered in in the last 15 years working within exercise and health.
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