640px-GoldCalfThese are sober days for Western Christianity. I say that not because the world is suddenly more evil than before, as many in the church believe and certainly not because we face greater dangers of  physical persecution and death. Rather, it is a time in which Christians, who for the most part remain oblivious to it, are facing a sustained, unrelenting, concerted and vicious assault on their minds. As a result many are lost in a fog of uncertainty of belief, barely cloaked in the decomposing threads of previously cherished truth, indecisive on the nature of God and morality, confused and intimidated by the ravings of those who style themselves as the enemies of God to widespread applause from a wilful self indulgent generation.

What has ensued has been, for many believers, an almost imperceptible shift from the biblical revelation of God to embracing a new definition of the divine being. An attractive, socially acceptable, shiny ‘golden calf’ has become their object of worship in our postmodern age; a god strangely akin to the ‘gods’ of the world they ostensibly forsook when they at one time expressed faith in the living God, a mute god who cannot speak, a passive god who has no likes or dislikes, no rules of conduct, no moral absolutes, a god merely grateful to be acknowledged, created by and in the image of its worshippers, unstable in his views, licentious, amoral, ‘affirming’; a thoroughly palatable and non offensive deity even to the most worship averse.

When Moses tarried on the mountain, the people lost hope in the Almighty, invisible God, they lost their connection to Him, they lost their faith in His presence and provision and desire to follow His laws; God’s ways did not suit them. They had Continue Reading…

Roadmap for life

15/03/2013

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This Jesus

18/01/2013

As we came into the new year I wrote an article about knowing who Jesus is. I had no idea what God had in store for me. we began this year with a series of bible reading plans. one group, the discipleship class is reading through the New Testament in one month, a truly fascinating experience; it’s interesting how much of the bible can be read in one sitting if one puts one’s mind to it.

I had been spending a lot of time in the gospels and one evening as I meditated on the word of God, preparing to preach the next day, the Holy Spirit suddenly moved upon me, and it was as if my eyes were suddenly opened, my understanding enlightened, as the Scriptures say, and I saw Jesus. Not physically, but in my Spirit; I received this profound vision of His Person, His nature, His character, the quality of His life and heart towards people. Continue Reading…

 As a child, the end of December was the most wonderful part of the year. First, Christmas, then my brother’s birthday, then mine, then, new year’s eve and then of course, the dawn of the new year. It was wonderful, fun, exciting, party filled and abundant in food. Growing older it has become less party oriented and more thought focused; a time to take stock, think, meditate, a time to be grateful and to reassess priorities, a time to focus on essentials. But what is essential?

There is a very interesting conversation recounted in the gospel of Luke,  a conversation between Jesus and His disciples. It starts out innocently enough as a question to the disciples. We can imagine Him turning to them and asking in a simple conversational tone “who do the crowds say that i am?”. They pipe up, offering different responses as to what those others thought of Jesus. And then, more solemnly, almost as if looking directly into their soul, He puts them on the spot “and who do you say that I am”. Ah, we….  And quickly Peter gets it , “You are the Christ the Son of the living God”.

And every man, woman, child is required to answer that same question; ‘ who do you believe that Jesus is?’. That, in my view is the essential question of human existence. It is the reason why, every year, as we feast and fête at the celebration of His incarnation, as a minister I like to draw attention once again to the nature of the One we worship, to the fundamental things we must know and believe about Jesus to be true followers of Him, things that inevitably trigger a paradigm shift in our lives. This is vital for believers in Christ today, more than ever before.

Pondering Jesus may not be a favourite occupation of Christians, but it is much needed.

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Sometimes prayer is seriously intoxicating. You are talking to …..GOD. Even wilder still,  He talks to you!!!!!!!!

He takes you into His world, suddenly you see, you see beyond the natural; you look beyond the physical, you step into a world of possibilities and hear the heart of the Infinite Being.

You see life, you see expansion, you see potential. Purity, truth, primary virtues envelop you and a glimpse of what it was like when the first man and woman walked with God with no darkness, disappointment, pain or evil marring their perspective.

And your heart flies out of your mouth as you vow to walk in this place of purity; as you determine to shun thoughts of evil, acts of unrighteousness, contemplation of iniquity, all that wars against this heady contemplation of the Master. You rush to extol His holiness, His omniscience, you plead with eager desire to never be allowed to leave this place in Him.

Heady stuff, and all because the only One who was free of the limitations of sin allowed Himself to be made sin for those mired in it; that those ones may now be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus; that they may then live that deep, intense communion sin had cut them off from.

Prayer then is practical experience of theological truth.

Shalom!

Things are heating up, spiritually, economically, materially in Europe. Many are wringing their hands saying where is God? God’s word says that God inhabits the praises of His people and that He rules over the affairs of men. And it says ‘call upon Me’. It is the duty of man to call upon the name of the Lord.If we call, He says, He will answer us and show us great and mighty things. This is the place in time where we stand today. We stand where man has lost his bearings and our call upon the name of the Lord will make all the difference.

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Make plans today to join us and come and represent your nation. Thursday night  we will be praying for all the nations represented. See you in Paris. Shalom!

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