I came across this in the daily paper:  “Rail instructions for a Yorkshire Charter day trip to Leeds: Each passenger travels forward on one leg and backwards on the other”!  Seems they must be standing still, or rocking on the spot. That’s what I hope I never do. It’s usually grandad who rocks in his…
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Fear is the black spot on the rose leaf of joy, the slag tip on the horizon of expectation and the limp in the onward march of life.  Fear blights, scars and cripples people’s lives to such an extent that they only live to half their full potential.  As the world approaches the end time…
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Last Sunday I spoke about transition and as some missed it [23% were absent] I record it here. Incidentally in large London churches 23% is about right for normal congregational response, or lack of it, and even more in some cases. When my dear wife died on January 11th 2014 after 47 years illness and…
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“We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened.” [2 Cor. 5:4] It is interesting that Paul does not call our body a building, a church or a mansion but a tabernacle. The first tabernacle was a tent of meeting, and Paul was a tent maker. I had the privilege of being saved in…
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“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks [Luke 6:45] and we who profess Christ say further “my meditation of Him shall be…
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[Proverbs 23:7] “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he:” When we change our thinking we change our life. Before we were saved we thought negatively, but now we are saved we are committed and commanded to change our concepts – “and be renewed in the spirit of your mind” [Ephesians 4:12]. Because…
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The fastness of life negates the ability to wait on God, by waiting for God. “But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” [Isa. 40:31] .We are the children of the…
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Four answers – to live like Moses First, faith that overcomes and comes to maturity will do so when in our natural selves we are VULNERABLE and helpless. Our own strength undermines faith for it rests on effort.  Second, there must be a complete confirmation that we are central to the divine will. When we…
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God created man and placed him in Eden. Man sinned and God started again with Noah, but he failed.  His third attempt was Abram who became Abraham, and from him was to come forth a nation who would give lineage to the Messiah.  This nation would be provided for amidst a famine, which by God’s…
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The Faithfulness He Defines Jesus “set His face to go to Jerusalem”[1] – a concrete decision, “set” for all eternity; is it unusual if his servants are like-minded? The Watchman is ardent to pursue the objects to which he has been called, heroic in endurance, daring in Divine pursuits, patient in tribulation, constant in adversity….
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