‘Lengthy’. That sounds like a negative word, right? Unless, perhaps, I’m referring to a holiday in balmy Malaga, by a pool-side, reading Robert Harris, eating paella, sipping San Miguel. But, I did say yesterday that I would look at how it applies to Jesus and prayer. We don’t like to wait. None of usContinue reading “: Lengthy”
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Out of the Mouths of Babes
One of the sweetest highlights in pastoral ministry I’ve experienced thus far was when I was stood next to one of my best friends on the front row of the church we were leading together at the time. Like in any church, there were seemingly thousands of things/responsibilities/behind-the-scenes situations that were threatening to kidnap myContinue reading “Out of the Mouths of Babes”
Dark Are We Yet Lovely #2
The post yesterday tried to shine a spot-light on the nature of God as an affectionate Lover of His people and the difference between this reality and the notion that God loves us only because He loves us unconditionally, as though we weren’t lovable to Him. Of course, our standing before Him is both transactionalContinue reading “Dark Are We Yet Lovely #2”
Dark Are We Yet Lovely
I was at a friend’s house over the weekend for breakfast and afterwards watched his little 4-year old boy plumb the depths of despair and rise to the heights of elation, back and forth, in literally less than a second. His roller-coaster emotions depended entirely on the pressure of water coming from the water hoseContinue reading “Dark Are We Yet Lovely”
George Herbert’s Love (III)
Love said, “You shall be he.”
All Is Grace
I have recently revisited this blog because I shared on the theme of ‘Grace’ this last Sunday. It’s a timeless bedrock of all we are as believers so hope it helps and encourages you to ‘drink deeply’ from the Fountain of grace.
Love and War
It is true to say that the right book in the right hand at the right time can literally save a life. And the power of someone’s testimony in the right hand at the right time is spectacularly powerful, let alone a husband and wife’s. In “Love and War” John and Stasi Eldredge have ‘bared all’ toContinue reading “Love and War”
Get Low
We all know that God likes it when we’re humble and He’s not very happy when we’re proud and arrogant. How is it then that we often struggle to take the last spot in the queue or the smallest bit of pizza from the Domino’s box? Why do we insist on giving ourselves the bestContinue reading “Get Low”
Ginger beards and shell-suits
The other day I was running along a canal near to where I live in Bradford and I was praying as I started picking up speed. As I was running this particular day, a young chap with a bright ginger beard, a caring face and a full-length shell-suit caught my heightenedContinue reading “Ginger beards and shell-suits”
No-one Like You God
In Exodus 15:11 the phenomenal prophet, Moses, says, “”Who among the gods is like you, O LORD ? Who is like you— majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?” Today, often in the shadow of Islamic mosques, Jehovah’s Witness call-outs and the world’s obsession with political correctness, the prophetic accuracy ofContinue reading “No-one Like You God”
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