Last time I kicked off a new series looking at the importance of how we fill our diaries. What we scribble or punch into our diaries reveals what we value most. Not convinced? Let’s read some famous words of Jesus, from Matthew 25: “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who […]
A Personal God
In ‘Leap over the wall’ by Eugene Peterson there is fabulous quote on the personal nature of God as seen through the lens of the Old Testament: “the Ark didn’t have magical properties. When the Hebrews treated it (and later the Temple) that way–as a source of power or good luck–the prophets did their best […]
The Presence of God is Felt
I’ve just finished reading ‘A Forgotten Revival’ by Stanley C Griffin. The book is mapping out the last English revival (1921). It is a beautiful book that moved me to tears as I read story after story of ordinary people being being ‘swept’ into the kingdom of God. Chapter 9 tries to […]
The voice of ‘a forgotten revival’
I’ve been re-reading ‘A Forgotten Revival’ by Stanley Griffin. It is the remarkable story of the last English Revival (1921) which started in seaside town of Lowestoft and spread to many other parts of East Anglia and East Scotland. Commenting on this revival’s preaching and content, Hugh Ferguson said the following: “ruin by the Fall, […]
Let Scripture speak in all its complexity
”Across this land pastors have turned their studies into “stills,” illegal distilleries that extract ideas and morals from the teeming narrative of Scripture. People, of course, love it. They come to get their Mason-jar lives filled with pure truth so that they won’t have to deal with either the details of Scripture or the details […]
A scriptural garment
”Holy Scripture is the garment which our Lord Christ has put on and in which He lets Himself be seen and found. This garment is woven throughout and so wrought together into one that it cannot be cut or parted.” – MARTIN LUTHER
Kingdom Scheduling (p1)
The following is the start of a new series of Life News articles I’m writing over this autumn term for Life Church. At the start of this new term, I want to focus your attention on something that may seem so utterly unspiritual (whatever that means) and off-topic at first glance that you might start to question […]
