Talk among the local pastors this morning turned to planting churches. The conversation covered various hair-raising stories, and involved church plants which have gone on and others which didn’t take root. Which got us onto remembering that churches are born and grow not according to human will but the sovereign purpose of God. This observation …
Perhaps you’ve seen the ads on TV. Got too many loans? We’ll help you get one big loan that will have a lower total repayment than what you’ve got now because you’ll now be paying it off for the next few decades. What if we think of Jesus like that? We have a debt because …
This morning’s talk among the pastors of Mount Gambier revolved around those who had prayed for our conversions and those who had been models of Godliness for us as we grew in our Christian lives. Our different stories revealed the same grace mediated through a great diversity of relationships and circumstances. God is pleased to …
This piece was published today in our local paper, The Border Watch. They gave it the title ‘Certainty In A Sea Of Change’. For a few years now most Tuesday afternoons I drop in on a friend who can’t get around so much anymore. We talk, sometimes share a cuppa, and always a prayer. Last …
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