Category: Discipleship

William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army stated “I consider the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell”. Sadly, his words are coming to pass before our very eyes, each of these points could be developed here, but I believe they […]

There is an old saying (I never get it right) that a person can have an unsatisfied satisfaction, or an satisfied unsatisfaction.  In other words they are satisfied but they want more. The key is to do all those things that will satisfy us spiritually. This will or should produce a desire for more. Our biggest challenge as believers is the temptation to settle down, […]

I teased my FB friends last night with this post, “there are at least 3 things that Christians are commended (commanded) to do CONTINUALLY, (and yet sadly not regularly preached about). Do you know what they are ? If you know tell me, this is my topic for my blog tomorrow”. I received some interesting responses. Watch, Abide, Pray Pray, Preach, give Thanks Take up […]

A much older Pastor has said to me a few times this year, “John, you have to slow down, age is catching up with you etc. etc”. I responded to him again this morning in an email, and said although I was trying to slow down and spend more time writing, I cannot shake off the passion and burden I carry. The statement “The burden […]

I felt impressed to post again on Facebook yesterday C.S.Lewis’s statement: YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD TO SET ANOTHER GOAL, OR TO DREAM A NEW DREAM. I did a google search and found some lovely artwork with the words and used them in my post. The response was dramatic and many of my FB friends immediately shared it with their friends. It is only a few […]