Introduction The final topic of this series, The Blessing of Unity, has been by far the most difficult to prepare, because it is the most demanding in terms of my personal union with God in Christ, and my actual experience … Continue reading
Introduction The topic of identity is one of the deepest of all, and operates at every conceivable level of human existence, personal, social, sexual, familial, cultural, national and religious. In contrast to contemporary thought[1], the Bible sees identity as a … Continue reading
Introduction An outstanding characteristic of most of Western Christianity is the struggle to bear effective witness. When I came to Christ at university several believers in my year suddenly came into the light. It is not unusual to hear stories … Continue reading
Introduction The last few decades have seen an exponential increase in teaching about leadership in the church, with seminars and sermons on laws of leadership, principles of leadership, stages of leaderships, levels of leaderships, servant leadership and so on. The … Continue reading
Introduction Part of the mystery of the Trinity is that you can only approach each Person through the others. If we ask how God himself is blessed, the answer must be given in terms of Jesus. Something I sense very … Continue reading
Introduction This is the third study in what it means to believe that God is the Father of every blessing. In our first teaching, I emphasised the role that Adam had as a man of the future, to be a … Continue reading
Introduction In our initial study I focussed on the vision of God as “The Father of every Blessing”. It is the presence of the blessing of God that claims the whole of life and integrates it into a single act … Continue reading
Introduction This series is the fruit of several things I began to sense in the second part of 2010. I was feeling like my heart had lost its elasticity, that ministry and Christianity (never to be confused with Jesus) had … Continue reading