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 …

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 …

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.