Fasting may be good for your mental health
This is a rather interesting article on the possibility that fasting may be good for the brain. Maybe the ancient ways are better after all? Read more at “Fasting can help protect against brain...
View ArticleI don't just believe in God, I met with him this morning
We Christians today don’t often talk about our spiritual experiences. There are all kinds of valid reasons for that. However, as the following section of my book Raised With Christ shows, Packer and...
View ArticlePlease pray for more joy-producing work of the Holy Spirit in me and also in you
A book by my long since with Jesus mentor, Henry Tyler which he called “Jump for Joy” on page 33 says some devastating words. Devastating to spiritual complacency, I mean! As I enter a very busy...
View Article‘Lord Teach Me to Pray’
This post represents the confessions of someone who struggles to know how to pray but is learning. If I was given a few pounds or dollars (I don’t take euro’s!) every time over the last few decades I...
View ArticleDon’t just stand there: PRAY something
The Friendly Atheist in a post entitled New Police Chief Thinks Prayer Will Lower Crime Rates said, “Or you could just, you know, skip the whole prayer step and start taking action right away. I’m no...
View ArticleWhat Mark Driscoll likes about Joel Osteen
In the middle of an interview about Driscolls new book (which I reviewed here) is a fascinating aside from Driscoll, never one to pull his punches, about America’s most prominent pastor, Joel Osteen,...
View ArticlePrayer, the soul’s sincere desire
PRAYER is the soul’s sincere desire, Utter’d or unexpress’d; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The upward glancing of...
View ArticleSpurgeon: Prayer is vital for the success of ministry
Regular readers will know only too well that I have been looking afresh recently at the life and writings of Spurgeon, in preparation for a planned documentary for which a team of my friends are...
View ArticlePrayer – the Pastor’s Priority? The People’s pleasure? Join us at 300 Leaders!
I find the following quote on prayer from Spurgeon striking, much as the last one I shared. It depresses me therefore how hard I often find it to pray myself. I am grateful to God that I am slowly...
View ArticleHow God can use 120 people to change the World
Somehow the personal tragedy Rick and Kay Warren face, compounded with the atrocity committed in Boston has brought into renewed focus for me how broken our world is. A viral illness has silenced me...
View ArticleThree Phases of Faith 2 Kings 4
This past Sunday I preached on Faith from 2 Kings 4 at Jubilee Church London’s Wood Green site. Here is the audio, the notes follow. In some circles today we can over-react to certain extreme teachings...
View ArticleDesperate women required (1 Samuel 1)
I was reading 1 Samuel 1 and it struck me first of all how what is perhaps one of the greatest books in the Bible begins with a woman with difficult family issues and a desperate desire for a child....
View ArticleThe place of fasting in repentance (1 Samuel 7)
Today the church I am a part of Jubilee begins a church-wide call to prayer and fasting that will last three days. In one of those God-incidences I opened my Bible this morning to read 1 Samuel 7....
View ArticleTo live is Christ, to die is gain
I am very grateful to God that, despite Mat Chandler’s brain cancer diagnosis, God has spared him for the sake of his family, and for more service. I will never forget him preaching at Jubilee Church...
View ArticleHealing Today
MacArthur’s argument against the gift of healing seen in his book Strange Fire is an interesting one to me. He seems to distinguish between the idea that God can and still does heal today in response...
View ArticleSome biblical resolutions for 2014 from Psalm 115
I was directed in a personal email to read Psalm 115:1, and found myself keeping on reading. May this passage be a motto for us all as we enter 2014. I see in this passage some resolutions we do well...
View Article“The church is looking for better methods, God is looking for better men”
E.M. Bounds was not overly enamored with church growth methods or management techniques. He believed real power comes from a different source: the Holy Spirit anointing a man. Those who want to reject...
View Article“The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching.”
I have been very slowly working my way through E. M. Bounds’ Complete Works On Prayer. It is packed full of passages which, like the quote I will share below, challenge me profoundly. But Bounds has a...
View ArticleLest we forget. Remembrance Sunday and those Tower Hill Poppies
Tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday. We find it hard to imagine the devastation caused by two World Wars separated by just two decades. But we must remember. We must appreciate the horrors of war and be...
View ArticleSpurgeon on the vital place of prayer
I came across the following two quotes about Spurgeon’s view of prayer on a website I was reading. They both struck me so strongly that I wanted to check the sources. Thanks to Logos Bible Software I...
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