Planted by Water

I was reading recently about the tragic death of King Saul (in 1 Chronicles 10) and noted how, when killed, he was ’stripped of his armour’ by his enemies; and I thought back to how he had offered his armour to David. He was the king at the time, the leader of God’s people, and he should have been going up against Goliath.  He had all the appearance of strength with his armour but not the real …

I am cheating today, as well as making a shameless plug for another blog that I do, by directing you to the Bible Tour Blog for my comment today - on Elisha’s prayer in 2 Kings 6.

Sorry I’ve been off-line for a while! Thought I’d better catch up with some reviews of books that I’ve been reading over recent months.

For devotional reading, I have been re-reading Arthur Wallis’ book, Pray in the Spirit, first published nearly forty years ago (sorry about the awful book cover on the picture but it was the only one I could find - don’t judge it by its cover!).  I was asked to speak to the …

Take five minutes, sit back and enjoy this. It was recommended by my friend Jon Dumville. It’s great! Make sure your sound is on to get the full effect.  

Over the last week or so, this blog has hosted the start of a debate (of sorts) concerning what happens in the end times and has included references to dispensationalism, pre-millenialism (or pessi-millenialism as some caricatured it!), post-millenialism (or posi-millenialism), preterism, futurism and Covenant Theology etc. I am grateful for those involved for responding to my appeal to ensure that their disagreements were expressed graciously. However, I am aware from people that I meet and who I …

I enjoyed being with Covenant Life church in Leicester this Sunday - this is one of the congregations of the church, the other being in Melton Mowbray, which I will be visiting in a few weeks time. They are a great bunch of people and it was good to see that they are growing, witnessing people being saved and healed recently; and they have great plans for a healing crusade to all the outlying small towns and villages. Covenant Life Church is led by Bryan …