Experience, someone said, is the teacher of those who do not listen to their mentors. One of the most difficult parts of pastoring is watching people walk into a ditch even as they turn a deaf ear to your injunctions. Indeed leadership in any form will inevitably bring you into such situations. One of the […]
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I have been thinking lately again of the goodness of God. God is good, all the time, is an oft repeated phrase in our exuberant charismatic circles. We are happy He is good because we are the recipients of His goodness and everyone likes to be on the receiving end of ‘good’ And we take
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Someone blessed me greatly this past week as they shared a conversation they had had with a member of their family. In the course of a discussion on the Word of God, the astonished family member felt challenged and remarked to them ‘I prayed for you ( to come to the Lord), and now you
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Is God really good to me? I know He has given me a new life in Christ, a lovely church, well, many things, but there is so much He expects from me and so many things really essential for my life that I still do not have. At least that’s what ‘B…..’ tells me. Who
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I love Luke. Luke starts his gospel by saying I am writing this so you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. And that is the heart of the matter, we don’t do church because it’s convenient, we don’t do the Gospel because it makes life more bearable, we do it
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As I woke up on my flight from Addis, this song kept running through my mind leading me to indulge in some silent praise, ‘I am forever grateful to you, i am forever grateful for the cross, i am forever grateful to you that you came, to seek and save the lost’. Over and over
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