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First Serve
It’s Wimbledon season here in the UK. My favourite tennis championship. When we pastored in London we lived so close to the Wimbledon Tennis arena we could hear the cheers go up when matches were played. It was always an…
Prisoner of hope
In days when hope seems in short supply there is a refuge, strong and sure. Don’t be dragged down. Hold tight. “Turn you to the strong hold (“Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity]”), ye prisoners of hope” (Zechariah…
Connection and Affection
Your connection to and affection for something gives it power over your life. Not the thing itself. Your connection to it is what gives something weight. The idolatry not the idol. How rooted your reliance on something determines the fruit…
Many Instructors Few Fathers
A friend and I were discussing yesterday, and landed on this verse: “I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye…
Praying In Tongues?
Of all the gifts I’ve received this one has been the most life-changing. It was one I little understood to begin with. In the doing, I developed. Closed the door and exercised. As Paul exhorted Timothy, “exercise thyself unto godliness.”…
