Planted by Water

I mentioned yesterday that I received a word from God while at a conference about 10 days ago - it was a confirmation about priorities that I need to be making at this time. One of the results of this is that I feel the need to stop regular blogging for about six months! Although I enjoy blogging and really appreciate the people who have posted comments and initiated discussions which have really helped develop my own …

My apologies to readers for not posting for a while. I had a great last session with the students as we considered the main global challenges the world faces and that Christians need to be aware of - namely, globalisation and world poverty, the clash of civilisations and the environment - massive issues that it was good to begin discussing. I ended with the encouragement that in whatever God has called them to do, each of …

I mentioned yesterday that I was reading a book by Andrew Murray called Power For Your Life, all about experiencing the Holy Spirit. One potential problem with him and other ‘deeper life’ authors is that they can sometimes leave the impression that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is something you graduate on to after a period of really faithful obedience, rather than being the foundational and initiation experience of the Christian life that it is. One implication of this  foundational understanding is that you can have people who have …

For my devotional reading recently I have taken up a book by an author whose books I used to read a number of years ago. Most famous for With Christ in the School of Prayer, Andrew Murray was a preacher, pastor and writer in South Africa at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. He came from a tradition sometimes kknown as the ‘holiness movement,’ a proponent of the original …