Bill Hybels is right, “The local church is the hope of the world.”
Ten email commandments
Pressing the send button without engaging brain can lead to a lot of trouble, wishing we could take it back
A new kind of economic recovery
Challenging section from a Brian McLaren article posted today on Sojourners site
There’s just not enough abundance these days
…developing an abundance mentality, “…opens possibilities, alternatives, and creativity.”
God speaks through Dreams: Walking with the King
In the dream I was stationed on duty outside a great palace like Buckingham Palace, dressed like one of the soldiers in ceremonial dress with the Busby hat on – as an ex police officer I’ve done my fair share of standing still and ‘guarding!’ Suddenly I was aware that I had a new assignment.
Losing the Plot ? Get EPIC!
“You can buy the dog for a tenner, it only tells lies anyway!”
Father helps us finish
Jim told his son, “I’m here, son…. we’ll finish together.”
What would YOU save in a hurricane?
we went to a house smaller than my garage, well -a mud hut with a tin roof – where a man and his wife lived with six daughters, two sponsored. His job was to go to the well and get water which he hoped to sell through the day. Furniture? One chair.
I asked whether they knew who their sponsors were.
A Father’s Choice
We heard of another man had two children, one under each arm. When the flood water came over his head he had to make a choice as to which to let go, so he could swim and save one.
How much to get rid of a demon?
Following a few links, I was intrigued to stumble across demon-slayer.org These people (I don’t think you can find out who they are other than first names, but they have a great line in anonymous recommendations) will travel the world and use secret knowledge revealed to only 7 people to get rid of your demons, apparently. How do you know you have demons? Well they list ‘creepy feelings,‘ or ‘feeling like someone is pressurising you to do certain acts‘ on their SYMPTOMS page. I got that off their site! Every day now I pass a big billboard advertising the new ITV Demons programme where Philip Glenister (the guy who played Gene Hunt in Life on Mars) has some new – more other worldly opponents to take on. This stuff is on people’s minds in our culture. Now don’t get me wrong… 1) We don’t battle against flesh and blood. When we see some of the evil in the world I don’t think many of us would think it too much of a stretch to believe the Bible’s warnings of a […]