The future is not far away.
It tends to arrive more rapidly than we expect.

I clearly remember one cold winter night in my room. I was alone and it was well after lights out. I was reading by candlelight (yes, we did have electricity!). It was a very cold, wet and windy night. I shivered in that spartan bungalow…

We have to be so discerning about the effects of syncretism – how subtle and dangerous it is, how prevalent, how determined it is. For the believer, syncretism is the death of the spiritual life. And so, we trust …

Eugenics science has become a major thing. But the science is becoming more and more synthesised with dangerous philosophy and ideology and, if left strictly unchecked (like we didn’t do with IVF for noble purposes), the science will increasingly become a means to evil ends.

Between now and then the Word will continue to speak. To woo His lost lambs home. The rhema Voice will be heard by millions of God’s people, too.

In the early Church, by the time John was writing his Gospel narrative, there had already arisen various heresies that disputed Jesus’ divinity, and also His humanity. Left unaddressed and unrefuted such heresies would have distorted the true Gospel. Some argued that…

Even though we are forgiven of our sins when we first surrender our lives to Christ – and that forgiveness for our offences against God is total and complete – we still have a corrupt soul. Even though we have been given a new spirit – born again – and that spirit is sanctified and…

Have seen it, that is? Had you been there would you have seen it? Had you, somehow, been standing at the foot of the cross on Golgotha (or, Skull Hill, as the locals called it), when Jesus died, would you have seen it?

So, “Jesus is Lord” means that every Christian lives a truly Christ-centred life. It is a totally Christ-centred life without separate compartments where Jesus is not Lord. And right there is a critical issue for believers in the 21st century where a Christless Christianity is slowly rising.

He is saying that the world considers us “easy meat”, lambs to the slaughter, weaklings, pathetic, of little consequence. The apostle says, “NO!” – he is so emphatic – “in ALL these things we are MORE than conquerors through Christ who loved us.”

God is searching for intercessors – prayer warriors who will gather to pray and take responsibility to MAKE THE NECESARY DECISIONS that will defeat the enemy. This is the Church doing the work no one else on earth can do.

I know this will be difficult for some of you to understand, or believe, but I am such an activist. I find it so hard to sit still. I find it hard NOT to think about things and imagine new possibilities or imagine new projects. Ever since I was young my mind was always going at full speed. I could never slow down….

Now, “two or three” sounds incredibly local to me! But with Jesus present, suddenly local goes global – and beyond. That is a stunning thought, don’t you think?

He fell asleep … how precious is that? He finished all his work for the Lord … and then, he “fell asleep”. This is reminiscent of …

Using this footy parlance as an analogy, how would you describe yourself as a believer? Are you a barracker with minimal investment in your faith walk? Or, are you a supporter?

Rain is a very strong metaphor in our culture for sadness, grief, tears and dark times in our lives. But rain in the biblical sense is often a key metaphor for a new and exciting time when God pours out His Spirit. The prophetic word we have received in this last week, indicates that there is a fresh rain coming. Not only that…

It is difficult learning to be patient. In our fast-paced, 24/7 world where time is at such a premium, the practice of patience is not easy for me. And, I am guessing, it is not easy for many who might be reading this, especially when we are facing difficult circumstances.

God was inviting His people to actually see the turning of the tide – in their favour, and for His glorious purposes – and go with it. It’s almost as if He asks Israel with some incredulity, “Really? You can’t see what I am doing?

Nature abhors a vacuum. In the same vein, evil loves a vacuum, too.

As someone recently said, “God graciously put Himself into a form that we humans could understand and sense”, and draw near to. “Complexity took on the form of simplicity that night without losing any of the complexity” And that is so powerful, so all-pervading in the spiritual realm, that men and women in all their Christmas rushing about stop at nativity scenes today and gaze in reverent wonder.