I’ve recently been living with the story of Philip and the Ethiopian from Acts 8:26-39. Philip had been experiencing a move of God in Samaria and then suddenly, out of the blue, God sent him into the desert! At the same time an Ethiopian official was travelling through the desert […]
I’ve recently been reading A W Tozer’s book ‘The Knowledge of the Holy.’ Tozer stresses the importance of understanding the nature and character of God. The more we understand about who God is the greater our desire to worship him and the more confident we become that he will do […]
Whether its Gershwin’s classic ‘Summertime… and the living is easy…’, Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ or the latest summer chart sensation, the songsters always seem to capture the spirit of the season we are in. And, busy though we all still are, it’s true that there is something about light nights and […]
Most of us live our lives at a frenetic pace and are constantly cramming ‘stuff’ into every available minute of the day. Living like this it’s no wonder the only person to get everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe! This was never what God intended. God wants us to […]
I love reading and hearing of God doing amazing things amongst his people. It stirs my faith and expectancy for what he is yet to do and all that he has promised. Our Sunday in March with guest speaker Angela Kemm was a significant morning for us. The response at […]
For millions of children around the world, the unchanging story of poverty is all they have ever known. Recent statistics from UNICEF and the World Bank show that: • More than 9 million children under 5 die each year. Two-thirds of these deaths are preventable. • Over 1.4 billion people […]
Last year I had the privilege of travelling to Nairobi in Kenya with the children’s charity Compassion. For over sixty years Compassion has sought to help vulnerable children around the world through its sponsorship programmes. These programmes focus on ensuring healthy pregnancies and all that this entails as well as […]
I love that the God who spoke creation into being wants to speak personally with me! In the Garden, Adam would walk in the cool of the day with God. This is a powerful picture of the relationship and communion God always intended for us to have with him, yet […]