Category: Inspirational
Spirituality
We live in a time where there is much spiritual awareness. Our culture is quickly discovering that there is a vacuum that exists in life that requires something beyond our natural abilities and talents to fulfill. The challenge we face in this season is to be a spiritual people (something in which the organized church…
The Words or the Message
Have you ever wondered what the real reason that Jesus spoke in parables was? Could it have something to do with people understanding the message more than the words? Remember that the purpose of words is to relay a message, what is important is not so much the words written or even spoken but the…
All You Need is Love
In 1967 the BBC commissioned the Beatles to write a song for the UK’s contribution to “Our World” the first live global television link. The song that John Lennon wrote was entitled “All you need is love”. Whether or not John realized this but it was a song of the heart of God to His…
What is "The Son of God"?
It may seem absurd to ask such a question, but if we are to continue on the journey I believe the Lord is taking us on, then it is imperative that these type of questions be asked. Too often I find that we in Christendom miss a lot that God is trying to portray to…
Forty: The Road to Faith
Forty: The Road to Faith It is quite interesting how often and where we find the number 40 in scripture. Whenever and wherever we come accross it we seem to find ourselves in a place of challenge and testing, a place where we are often cornered with seemingly no way out. It is at this…
Four Layers of The Word
Four Layers of the Word Life began in a garden. We call this paradise, which comes from the Persian “pardes” which means garden. This word made its way into the Aramaic and Hebrew, written PRDS (remember that the ancient Hebrew had no vowels). Later on the Rabbis created a teaching from the word PRDS on…
Overcoming Offence Pt 2 "Letting Go"
Overcoming OffencePt 2: Letting Go Matthew 6:12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.Forgive: to release, to let go, to let alone Matthew 18:21-35What we do to others, we will have done to us. This is because what we do to others we are really doing to ourselves and to…
Overcoming Offence Pt 1 "What is Offence?"
Overcoming OffencePart 1: What is Offence? To overcome offence, one first has to determine what offence is. This is important because offence is the number one killer of Christian life in the Church today. Offence is like a cancer, it can attack you at any time. If it is caught early enough it can be…
Repentance
Repentance This is an interesting and often misunderstood topic. If one was to ask a variety of people “What does it mean to repent?” your answers would vary from “being sorry” to “turning away from sin”. Though these examples can be part of the repentance process, they in themselves are not repentance. Let’s go into…