23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:23 ESV Dear friends and family…, “heart” guides us what we think, see, say, and do; best then make good choices, Solomon knew. To gain a pure … Continue reading
Ending the God-Delusion Introduction This teaching touches on a massive idol holding the Church back from the glorious fullness of her relationship with God in Christ (Eph 3:14-21). This idol keeps us from entering into the rest of God the … Continue reading
Total Beauty Introduction God’s endgame in creating the world, a cosmos founded on the “Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world” (Rev 13:8 cf. 1 Pet 1:20), is to make “everything beautiful in its time.” (Eccl 3:11). In … Continue reading
The Shape of Humanity Ps 26; Job 1:1; 2:1-10; Mark 10:2-16; Heb 1:1-4; 2:5-12 Introduction https://youtu.be/TRJYybe1xE0 Both Job and the psalmist lived with a tension never fully resolved under the old covenant and which still stirs up many hearts today. … Continue reading
Bubbles of Glory Anointing: a special empowerment of the Holy Spirit for the bringing in the kingdom of God (Acts 10:38). An Old Vision Years ago, I had a picture of the present state of the church in the form … Continue reading
Healing James 5:12-16 Introduction https://youtu.be/isbLqW8uFDI When it comes to illness, our secular post-God society suffers from a divided mind[1], most people[2] will stretch out life as far as possible by any means whilst others will want it terminated with medical … Continue reading
Seeing Glory at Work Background Insight Driving to a prayer meeting about Christ at work in “all things” (Acts 3:19-21) I had a scintillating sense of the glory of the Lord. The next morning, I had much deeper insight into … Continue reading
Taming Tongue James 3:1-18 Introduction https://youtu.be/S5GIdsA_Aps As we have discovered over the last few weeks, James is a hard hitter whose teaching about life, painful as it may be to digest, is unavoidably true to our experience. This is especially … Continue reading
Feeling Failure Beyond Catastrophe Praying recently, I had a clear picture of what God is doing in our crisis ridden world. I saw a patch of blackened and completely razed ground, as if through bushfire. Then green shoots came up, … Continue reading
Justified by Works James 2:14-26 https://youtu.be/p3HMveQw3ME Introduction Today’s passage from James is difficult to interpret and controversial in message. The father of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther, said that compared to books like Romans and Galatians it was “a real … Continue reading
Vaccine Unity or Disunity? For the most obviously prophetic section of this teaching go to the heading Vaccine Unity below. Introduction A few weeks ago, an intercessor in the city sent me an email inquiring about my writings about vaccination. … Continue reading
Poor[1] Ps 12; Prov 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23; Mark 7:24-37; James 2:1-17 Introduction https://youtu.be/-eioYCWD1PU If we have not thought of and interceded for the poor today we are unlike the God of the Bible[2] who always hears the cry of the … Continue reading
Finishing the Family Tree Having heard many amazing testimonies at Perth Prayer (https://www.facebook.com/PerthPrayer/) I have often pondered why a disproportionate number of these originate overseas. This week I sense a reply in the Spirit.. Introduction Last Tuesday an animated Spirit-filled … Continue reading
Spiritual Warfare Eph 6:10-20 https://youtu.be/3C_7U5rWKGU Introduction Ephesians 1-5 testifies of the great plan of God to head up everything, earthly and heavenly, in Jesus. this must be so because Jesus is human as well as divine. In Ephesians 6 we … Continue reading
The Womb of the Spirit Background This teaching flows from utterances at a recent prophetic prayer assembly seeking God about the formation of a 24-7 prayer and praise hub in Perth. The consensus was that the Spirit was testifying of … Continue reading
Terror Rises 19.8.21 3.13 am “And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendour of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the … Continue reading
A sermon for Dalkeith Road Church of Christ 22/8/21 In this message I plan to continue with the theme of prayer that I have been speaking about in the last couple of messages. This time I want to discuss the … Continue reading
Be Filled with the Spirit Ps 111; 1 Ki 2:10-12; 3:13-14; John 6:1-8; Eph 5:11-21 Introduction https://youtu.be/SpGkYAzWwww Paul’s thrust in Ephesians embraces a theme whereby God’s plan is to sum up all things in Christ (Eph 1:10)[1]. In this vast … Continue reading
Sermon for Pilgrim Church 15/8/21 6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. The word … Continue reading
Bride and Mother “No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.” (Cyprian, bishop-martyr c.250 AD) Introduction One of the intriguing aspects of my journey with the Lord is how I keep encountering … Continue reading
A New Identity In Christ Eph 4:17-5:2 Introduction https://youtu.be/hpgqA9oUBxA In working through Ephesians we have seen that God has a plan to fill everything with the presence of his Son and in the End he will do that through the … Continue reading
The Fire that Divides Background The Lord gave the scripture below to a sister at a prayer meeting during the week. It is precisely what we do not want to hear, but it contains a contemporary Word we must hear. … Continue reading
Fully Equipped Eph 4:7-16 https://youtu.be/daAplZwk4HQ Introduction In the last three weeks we have been working through the riches of what Ephesians teaches us about the Church, we are the recipients of eternal blessing in Christ (Eph 1), we are a … Continue reading
Smokin’ Wife Smokin’ Wife, in popular parlance, elicits thoughts of a hot, sexy, passionate woman. In this article the Smokin’ Wife is the Church, not so much as she is today, but as she is called to be. I … Continue reading
1. O There is a Lamb O there is a Lamb So pure and so holy Who was slain before the world The Son of God, The Son of Man (chorus) Jesus you alone are holy You alone … Continue reading
A blog post from 2017. Although complaining and lamenting have some things in common, they should not be mistaken for one another. The Bible is plainly against complaining and grumbling. But lamenting is common and acceptable. Jesus never grumbled but … Continue reading
A blog post from 2017. A couple of weeks ago something great happened. It was something which I had been praying about for seven months and it finally happened. You would think that this answer to prayer would make me … Continue reading
A blog post from 2018. There is an interesting passage in 1 Kings about two prophets—one called “the man of God” and the other “the old prophet”. We are told very little about either of them; neither of them is … Continue reading
A blog post from 2017. I found myself thinking about money lately. In Acts there are two significant interactions between preachers of the gospel and people concerned about their ability to make money. The first story involves Paul and some … Continue reading
A blog post I wrote in 2018. People often tell me, “I don’t know what my spiritual gifts are. Should I do a spiritual gifts test?” I have no objection to spiritual gifts tests, but I don’t think that they … Continue reading