Tag Archives: grace

Hosea 1- Acclimatising to the Mess (& the wonder)

In order to speak prophetically to a Nation and to achieve redemption and righteousness for them, God invades, exposes and demands the masculinity of Hosea’s ego, his social and spiritual reputation, his lineage, his peace, his joy, his sanity, his sexual satisfaction and purity and, most ultimately, the emotional bed of his heart.

Transforming Grace

I’ve spent all week directing a new promotional film for the Faith Mission Bible College in Edinburgh Here’s a little teaser in time-lapse form of our friend Grace being transformed  It’s going to be epic…

Prevenient 

This one word sums up the only impulse for our continuing prayer and love for God that sometimes may seem to flicker rather than blaze. Like a heart that only beats because it was created to be myogenic. When you feel as though you don’t desire God as you should, as you want to, rememberContinue reading “Prevenient “

Mercy Mercy

Occasionally I’ll hear a lyric in a song of worship that will make me wince. Brooke Fraser’s bridge section from Hosanna is a good example of this where she pens, “Heal my heart and make it clean…break my heart for what breaks Yours”. We sing, we follow suit, we play…but, really? Break my heart –Continue reading “Mercy Mercy”

Easter Paradidomi – Why is Good Friday good?

I’m colour blind – i.e. I can’t always discern between shades of brown and red and green. This means very little to me except that I can’t be an RAF pilot or a bomb disposal expert. It also means that I occasionally foul in snooker by playing a brown by mistake. And it means thatContinue reading “Easter Paradidomi – Why is Good Friday good?”