At our Pastor’s  fellowship meeting today, a very robust discussion developed on the issue of “speaking in tongues”. It was a very positive discussion and I came away encouraged. There has been a growing change of attitude (within the Christian church) to the phenomena  of speaking in tongues  not only  by Evangelicals, but Liturgical Christians as well over the last 50 years. I was told to my […]

There are so many truths in the Word of God I love to write about, but continually feel compelled to come back to encouraging believers to lay the right foundations. Common sense teaches us that if we want to build a building the foundations must be strong enough to carry the structure of the building. Even Jesus said, the builder sits down and counts the […]

Let me start by reminding you that the whole Bible is the WORD OF GOD. There is much of the Old Testament that seems irrelevant or we simply don’t understand it, unless we pass it through the Cross and apply New Covenant principles to it.  So much of the Old Testament is an awesome progressive revelation of truth that has its fulfilment in the New […]

In my 64+ years as a Christian  I have never been part of a church that follows a Lectionary, and to be honest I don’t ever expect to be either. Last December I was asked if I would preach in our local church  on one of the four Sundays of Advent following the Advent theme for that Sunday. Being totally ignorant of what Advent was […]

Have you ever been asked this question before ? It is not easy to describe, we know when we have it, and we sure know when we don’t. The writer to Hebrews describes it so well for us. Hebrews 11:1 N.L.T.Faith is the confidence that what we  hope for  will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. The writer goes on and […]