Happy New Year 2021! The word for this year is “testify for Christ. This is what should guide our lives this new year, we’re talking about being a witness. The Lord has been dealing with us very strongly on this point. It’s not enough to meet the Lord. We must be those through whom others […]
Many years ago at four o’clock in the morning over several days in my hotel room in New Zealand, God woke me up and continuously dealt with me about focusing on the call, focusing on preaching and teaching the word of God and not be sidetracked by people’s expectations into things they feel they need
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The house is burning and we are dangerously aloof. The western world in its thinking and in its values is moving away from God at the speed of light. And we are to blame. The church in the west by and large is not moved by the condition of our world. We see not beyond
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Reading Romans the other day it occurred to me that had the apostles penned the New Testament in the same tone in which we often preach it, it would not have survived two readings. Many a sermon is intoned in dry monotony borne of even drier scholarship. The scriptures were on the contrary penned with
Allow me to be expansive in my celebration of the goodness of God today. I confess, were you not to allow it, I would be still. How can one not celebrate One so loving, so caring, so powerful, and able to move beyond our human frailties to demonstrate His awesomeness! God came to church yesterday,
This Saturday night as i sit in the presence of the Lord before service tomorrow i am deeply moved, and in fact the only reason i am writing this is to release some of the intensity of the moment; how do you weep on screen? I have always wondered, since i began to get close
